The Winery Rio Sol is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 35 wines for sale in of Vale do São Francisco to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Rio Sol wines in Vale do São Francisco among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Rio Sol 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 Rio Sol wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Rio Sol wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of beef tongue in hot pickle sauce, pan-fried lamb heart or stuffed squid in the sétoise sauce.
On the nose the red wine of Winery Rio Sol. often reveals types of flavors of oaky, non oak or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, red fruit or earth. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Rio Sol. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
The Vale do São Francisco ("Valley of Saint Francis") is a river valley in the state of Bahia, eastern Brazil. The most remarkable thing about the valley as a wine region is its equatorial latitude, just 9°S. This places it only 1000 kilometers (625 miles) South of the Equator, and 2400km (1500 miles) North of Brazil's core winelands in Rio Grande do Sul. The Climate here is classified as semi-arid tropical.
It is hot and Dry, with just 600 millimeters (24 inches) of rain per year.
At first glance, the Vale do São Francisco seems to entirely disprove the idea of the "wine belt", the band of latitudes in which effective viniculture is thought practicable. In the southern hemisphere, the wine belt encircles the globe between 30°S and 45°S. But in fact it is more of an exception that proves the rule; the Vines are entirely reliant on irrigation from the São Francisco River, and their productivity cycles are dependent on human intervention rather than natural seasonal influences.
It can hardly be said that this is a "natural" place to grow Grapes and make wine.
The grapes grown in this tropical environment are rarely, if ever, of fine-wine quality. But what they lack in quality they make up for in quantity; many vineyards here produce two annual vintages rather than one. Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon lead the red wine grape varieties, and Muscat is also cultivated here, often to make Sparkling wines.
How Winery Rio Sol wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of cassoulet, sun wheat or easy seafood gratin.
On the nose the sparkling wine of Winery Rio Sol. often reveals types of flavors of microbio, oak or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit, red fruit. In the mouth the sparkling wine of Winery Rio Sol. is a with a nice vivacity and a fine and pleasant bubble.
How Winery Rio Sol wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, game (deer, venison) or shellfish such as recipes of english breakfast, duck breast with black figs or squid with garlic and parsley.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Rio Sol. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit.
A wine whose nose is first characterized by aromas reminiscent of the world of fruit. A wine to be drunk young is essentially fruity, but all wines offer this type of aroma in the first place, which can evolve over time, from the scent of fresh fruit to cooked, stewed, candied or brandied fruit.
How Winery Rio Sol wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of oxtail and carrot stew, lamb confit with new potatoes or chicken colombo.
Most certainly Portuguese, not to be confused with the Touriga Franca also of the same origin. In Portugal, where it is widely cultivated, it is used to produce, among other things, the famous red Porto. It is also found in Uzbekistan, Australia, South Africa, Cyprus, Spain, etc... very little known in France, although it is listed in the Official Catalogue of A1 vines.
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It is a crossbreed made in 1855 by Louis and Henri Bouschet from an intraspecific crossing between Grenache noir and Petit Bouschet. The Alicante Henri Bouschet is less and less multiplied, registered however in the Official Catalogue of the varieties of vine of wine grapes list A.
