The Winery Podere Castel Merlo of Lombardia

Winery Podere Castel Merlo
The winery offers 14 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 1281 of the estates of Lombardia.
It is located in Lombardia

The Winery Podere Castel Merlo is one of the best wineries to follow in Lombardie.. It offers 14 wines for sale in of Lombardia to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Podere Castel Merlo wines

Looking for the best Winery Podere Castel Merlo wines in Lombardia among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Podere Castel Merlo wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Podere Castel Merlo wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Podere Castel Merlo

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Podere Castel Merlo

How Winery Podere Castel Merlo wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of chicken in red wine, pasta with tuna and cream or lobster armorican style.

The best vintages in the sparkling wines of Winery Podere Castel Merlo

  • 2011With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.70/5

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery Podere Castel Merlo.

  • Chardonnay
  • Pinot Blanc
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Lombardia

Lombardy is one of Italy's largest and most populous regions, located in the north-central Part of the country. It's home to a handful of popular and well-known wine styles, including the Bright, cherry-scented Valtellina and the high-quality Sparkling wines Franciacorta and Oltrepo Pavese Metodo Classico. Lombardy is Italy's industrial powerhouse, with the country's second largest city (Milan) as its regional capital. Despite this, the region has vast tracts of unspoiled countryside, home to many small wineries that produce a significant portion of the region's annual wine production of 1.

2 million hectoliters. A vast and geographically Complex region, Lombardy is well positioned to offer a wide range of wine styles. There are five DOCGs, 21 DOCs and 15 PGIs. The Oltrepo Pavese area stands out as one of the most important and best known, not only for its sparkling wine Oltrepo Pavese Metodo Classico DOCG, but also, more recently, for its Pinot Grigio, which since 2008 has its own independent DOC (Oltrepo Pavese Pinot Grigio).

Franciacorta, the second of Lombardy's two DOCG sparkling wines, comes from the booming and highly regarded vineyards between Brescia and Lake Iseo.

The top red wines of Winery Podere Castel Merlo

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Podere Castel Merlo

How Winery Podere Castel Merlo wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or lamb such as recipes of beef bourguignon in the oven of nanou, pasta with tuna and laughing cow or lamb tagine with prunes.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Podere Castel Merlo

In the mouth the red wine of Winery Podere Castel Merlo. is a powerful with a lot of tannins present in the mouth.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Podere Castel Merlo

  • 2009With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2008With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2013With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.85/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.72/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Podere Castel Merlo.

  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon

Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

The top white wines of Winery Podere Castel Merlo

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Podere Castel Merlo

How Winery Podere Castel Merlo wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, shellfish or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of pad thai, shrimp curry (reunionese recipe) or comté cheese and cream soufflé.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Podere Castel Merlo.

  • Pinot Grigio

The word of the wine: Musty (taste of)

A disgusting taste due to a defect in the grapes or, more commonly, a defect in the barrel.

The top pink wines of Winery Podere Castel Merlo

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Podere Castel Merlo

How Winery Podere Castel Merlo wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, shellfish or poultry such as recipes of roast veal with cider, shrimp in coconut milk curry or chicken curry with coconut milk and cashew nuts.

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Podere Castel Merlo.

  • Pinot Grigio

Discover the grape variety: Pinot grigio

Pinot grigio is a grey grape variety mutated from Pinot Noir. It has its origins in Burgundy, where it is called pinot-beurot in reference to the colour of the grey robes worn by the monks of the region. Established in Alsace since the 17th century, pinot grigio was called tokay until 2007. It is made up of bunches of small berries that vary in colour from pink to blue-grey. It is particularly well suited to the continental climate because it is resistant to the cold in winter and to spring frosts. This variety also likes dry limestone soils with plenty of sunshine in the summer. pinot grigio is well suited to late harvesting or to the selection of noble grapes, depending on the year and the concentration of sugars in the berries. Pinot grigio wines are distinguished by their aromatic complexity of white fruits, mushrooms, honey, vanilla, cinnamon, etc., and their great finesse. In the Loire Valley, pinot grigio is used in the Coteaux-d'Ancenis appellations. It gives dry or sweet wines with pear and peach aromas.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Podere Castel Merlo

Planning a wine route in the of Lombardia? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Podere Castel Merlo.

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.

News about Winery Podere Castel Merlo and wines from the region

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Igé

Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Igé, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are availablein French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneWines/​​ ...

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Vinzelles

Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Vinzelles, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are available in French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneW ...

The Morey Saint Denis appellation investigated through its geology and geography

The Bourgogne Wine Board (BIVB) invites you to enjoy this video in which Jean-Pierre Renard, Expert Instructor at the Ecole des Vins de Bourgogne, explains the topographical and geological characteristics of the Morey-Saint-Denis appellation. The vineyard lies on an intensely fractured area. Several characteristic zones can be distinguished, we can say that each Climat has its own personality. This video is taken from the “Rendez-vous avec les vins de Bourgogne” program broadcasted in April 2021 ...

The word of the wine: Musty (taste of)

A disgusting taste due to a defect in the grapes or, more commonly, a defect in the barrel.