The Winery Quinta del Obispo - Viña Albares of Castille-et-Léon

Winery Quinta del Obispo - Viña Albares - Gewürztraminer Semidulce
The winery offers 13 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 3665 of the estates of Castille-et-Léon.
It is located in Castille-et-Léon
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The Winery Quinta del Obispo - Viña Albares is one of the best wineries to follow in Castille-et-Léon.. It offers 13 wines for sale in of Castille-et-Léon to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Quinta del Obispo - Viña Albares wines

Looking for the best Winery Quinta del Obispo - Viña Albares 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 del Obispo - Viña Albares 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 del Obispo - Viña Albares wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Quinta del Obispo - Viña Albares

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Quinta del Obispo - Viña Albares

How Winery Quinta del Obispo - Viña Albares wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), spicy food or sweet desserts such as recipes of fish pot, royal couscous or simple pancake batter.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Quinta del Obispo - Viña Albares

  • 2013With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.20/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Quinta del Obispo - Viña Albares.

  • Gewürztraminer
  • Chardonnay

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 red wines of Winery Quinta del Obispo - Viña Albares

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Quinta del Obispo - Viña Albares

How Winery Quinta del Obispo - Viña Albares wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal such as recipes of braised beef with carrots, spaghetti cacio e pepe or veal meatballs with curry.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Quinta del Obispo - Viña Albares

On the nose the red wine of Winery Quinta del Obispo - Viña Albares. often reveals types of flavors of earth, oak or red fruit and sometimes also flavors of black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Quinta del Obispo - Viña Albares. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Quinta del Obispo - Viña Albares

  • 2014With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.49/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.40/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Quinta del Obispo - Viña Albares.

  • Mencia
  • Tempranillo
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot

Discover the grape variety: Gewurztraminer

Gewurztraminer rosé is a grape variety that originated in France. 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 vine is characterized by small bunches and small grapes. Gewurztraminer rosé can be found in many vineyards: Alsace, Loire Valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Jura, Champagne, Lorraine, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, South West.

The top pink wines of Winery Quinta del Obispo - Viña Albares

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Quinta del Obispo - Viña Albares

How Winery Quinta del Obispo - Viña Albares wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Quinta del Obispo - Viña Albares

  • 2015With an average score of 3.80/5

The word of the wine: Musk

A sensual, full-bodied animal substance used in luxury perfumery, produced by a small deer, the musk deer, also called musk deer.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Quinta del Obispo - Viña Albares

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 del Obispo - Viña Albares.

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.

News about Winery Quinta del Obispo - Viña Albares and wines from the region

DO Terra Alta makes orange wine official

In the last board meeting of 2021 for the regulatory council of DO Terra Alta, in Catalunya, Spain, a long list of changes was approved. The most prominent was the making of a very strict certification system for wines that are 100% Garnatxa Blanca given that it’s their flagship grape variety. But perhaps the most interesting item is a bit further down the list that allows certification for a type of wines that in Catalan are called “vins brisats”. The name refers to white wine ...

Bordeaux ‘Act for Change’ symposium

The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C  in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...

Napa wine property on sale for $35m as historic site sold

A luxury Napa Valley wine property covering around 34 acres (13.6 hectares) has recently been offered for sale at $35m. Listed by real estate agent Cyd Greer, with the Coldwell Banker agency, the Meteor Vineyard Estate features 22.58 acres of vines in the Coombsville American Viticultural Area, close to Napa. It’s predominantly planted to Cabernet Sauvignon with some Petit Verdot. Greer, a leading agent in Napa Valley for more than a decade, told Decanter that Meteor was the most expensive listi ...

The word of the wine: Musk

A sensual, full-bodied animal substance used in luxury perfumery, produced by a small deer, the musk deer, also called musk deer.