The Winery Potrero Grande of Maule Valley of Central Valley

Winery Potrero Grande
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 2.9.
It is ranked in the top 3731 of the estates of Central Valley.
It is located in Maule Valley in the region of Central Valley

The Winery Potrero Grande is one of the best wineries to follow in Maule Valley.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Maule Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Potrero Grande wines

Looking for the best Winery Potrero Grande wines in Maule Valley among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Potrero Grande 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 Potrero Grande wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Potrero Grande

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Potrero Grande

How Winery Potrero Grande wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal such as recipes of spit-turned boar leg (oven) with "automatic watering"., tuscan pastachute or shoulder of lamb stuffed with cognac.

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Potrero Grande.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Maule Valley

Maule Valley is the largest wine-producing region in Chile other than the Central Valley, of which it is a Part. It has 75,000 acres (30,000ha) under Vine, and has traditionally been associated with quantity rather than quality. But this is rapidly changing – the bulk-producing Pais vine is gradually being replaced with more international varieties such as Cabernet Sauvignon and Carmenère, and careful winemaking practices are being employed to make some world-class red wines from old-vine Carignan. The Central Valley itself runs between the Andes and the Coastal Mountains from the Chilean capital of Santiago in the North to the up-and-coming region of Bío Bío in the South.

The Maule Valley stretches for around 60 miles (100km), and the Center of its wine production Lies 180 miles (290km) south of Santiago at a latitude of 35°S. Maule is further south than the Central Valley's star regions of Maipo and Colchagua. The large amount of land covered by the Maule Valley DO (Denominación de Origen) means there is a multitude of terroirs, from low-lying river valleys to Andean hillsides. Maule Valley was one of the first areas in Chile to be planted to vine, and its viticultural history stretches back to the start of colonisation by the Spanish.

The region has Long been one of Chile's most successful bulk-production wine districts, as evidenced by the large amount of Pais still found planted here. It has only been in the past 20 years that Maule vignerons have made a move toward quality, pioneered by the Kendall-Jackson empire of California, which set up a winery here in the mid-1990s. Despite this push toward modernity, some of Maule's better throwbacks have survived – the region is fast becoming known for some 70-year-old Carignan vines that are being used to produce Soft, earthy red wines with Richplum and black-fruit characters. One of the more southern of Chile's wine-growing areas, Maule is slightly cooler than its northerly cousins and has higher annual rainfall, most of which occurs during winter.

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Discover the grape variety: Genouillet

The wines produced a long time ago in the Berry region from this grape variety were considered to be the best in the region. Today, Genouillet is in danger of extinction, registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A1. According to published genetic analyses, it is the result of a natural intraspecific cross between the white gouais and the black tressot.

News about Winery Potrero Grande and wines from the region

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

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Decanter World Wine Awards 2022: Results announced

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Best in Show: The top 50 wines of DWWA 2022

The 0.27% of entries awarded Best in Show at this year’s Decanter World Wine Awards reflect the inspiring world of wine and quest for quality among winemakers globally, with 50 wines expressing the best of their categories. An all-time record for wines tasted at the world’s largest wine competition, it’s quite possible that Decanter World Wine Awards 2022 marks the largest-ever wine competition to be held in history. And of the record-breaking 18,244 wines tasted, just 50 were ...

The word of the wine: Fulfilled

Said of a wine at its peak that is balanced and offers all its aromatic potential.

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