The Winery Quinta de la Quietud of Castille-et-Léon

Winery Quinta de la Quietud - Tinto
The winery offers 8 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.
It is ranked in the top 23 of the estates of Castille-et-Léon.
It is located in Castille-et-Léon

The Winery Quinta de la Quietud is one of the world's great estates. It offers 8 wines for sale in of Castille-et-Léon to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Quinta de la Quietud wines

Looking for the best Winery Quinta de la Quietud wines in Castille-et-Léon among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Quinta de la Quietud 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 Quinta de la Quietud wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Quinta de la Quietud

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Quinta de la Quietud

How Winery Quinta de la Quietud wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of blanquette of monkfish with small vegetables, lamb tagine with vegetables and preserved lemons or rabbit à la lorientaise.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Quinta de la Quietud

On the nose the red wine of Winery Quinta de la Quietud. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, red fruit or non oak and sometimes also flavors of earth, microbio or vegetal. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Quinta de la Quietud. is a powerful with a lot of tannins present in the mouth.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Quinta de la Quietud

  • 2000With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2004With an average score of 4.29/5
  • 2009With an average score of 4.19/5
  • 2006With an average score of 4.17/5
  • 2008With an average score of 4.09/5
  • 2007With an average score of 4.09/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Quinta de la Quietud.

  • Tinta de toro
  • Tempranillo

Discovering the wine region of Castille-et-Léon

Located in the northern half of the Central Iberian plateau, Castilla y León is the largest of Spain's 17 administrative regions, covering about one-fifth of the country's total area. It extends about 350 kilometres (220 miles) from central Spain to the northern coast. Just as wide, it connects the Rioja wine region to the Portuguese border. Red wines reign supreme in Castilla y León, and the Tempranillo grape is undoubtedly the king.

It is known here by various synonyms, including Tinta del Pais, Tinto de Toro and Tinto Fino. It is the source of all the best wines in the region, with the exception of Bierzo, which makes good use of Mencia. The other grape varieties are the French varieties Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Syrah. The white wines of Castilla y Léon are much less numerous than the reds, but hardly less prestigious.

The top sweet wines of Winery Quinta de la Quietud

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Quinta de la Quietud

How Winery Quinta de la Quietud wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, shellfish or spicy food such as recipes of penne à la toscane, shrimp with garlic and orange or algerian couscous.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Winery Quinta de la Quietud

  • 2010With an average score of 3.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Winery Quinta de la Quietud.

  • Palomino
  • Malvasia
  • Verdejo
  • Albillo Mayor
  • Muscat of Alexandria

Discover the grape variety: Verdejo

An ancient grape variety that has been cultivated for a long time, mainly in the Rueda region of northwestern Spain. D.N.A. tests show that it is the result of a natural cross between Savagnin and Castellana Blanco. It should not be confused with the Verdelho, which is very well known in Portugal, and the Verdelho Branco, which is almost more widespread. The Verdejo is registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties list A. It can also be found in the United States (Virginia, California, etc.), Australia, Portugal, etc., but is practically unknown in France.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Quinta de la Quietud

Planning a wine route in the of Castille-et-Léon? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Quinta de la Quietud.

Discover the grape variety: Tempranillo

The black Tempranillo is a grape variety native to Spain. It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by medium-sized bunches and medium-sized grapes. The black Tempranillo can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

News about Winery Quinta de la Quietud and wines from the region

Walls: Domaine de la Janasse, Vieilles Vignes 2011-2000 vertical

Some Châteauneufs are more reliable than others. When I visit the region to taste the new vintage every year, Domaine de la Janasse’s cuvée Vieilles Vignes regularly features among the best. It’s a particularly dense and concentrated wine when young, and it always strikes me that, even for Châteauneuf, it’s a wine that needs extended ageing to show its best. I was keen to acquire a more complete understanding of how this cuvée develops, so I visited brother-and-sister team Isabelle and Christoph ...

Rare Lafite 1887 magnum tops £22,000 in Sotheby’s auction

A magnum of Lafite Rothschild 1887 sold for £22,500 ($28,300) at a Sotheby’s auction of ‘vinous treasures’ spanning nearly 200 years. The wine, held in storage with Octavian group in Wiltshire, had a pre-sale high estimate of £18,000. A single bottle of Château d’Yquem 1831 sold for £27,500 (pre-sale high estimate: £20,000). Another bottle of Yquem, from the 1896 vintage, sold for £15,000, tripling its pre-sale high estimate. ‘An extraordinary wine from a very great Sauternes vintage,’ said Sere ...

Decanter guide to picnicking for wine lovers

According to lifestyle and happiness guru Gretchen Rubin, you ‘bring your own weather to a picnic’. Ms Rubin, I’d suggest, has never shivered under a tree watching raindrops turn her fish-paste sandwich to mush because the weather forecast was wrong. There are, it’s safe to say, picnics and Picnics. It’s a term that takes in everything from a rubber baguette in a French ‘Aire’ off the Autoroute du Soleil to a four-course spread while listening to opera at Glyndebourne. What’s definitely true is ...

The word of the wine: Pinenc

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