The Winery San Michele is one of the world's great estates. It offers 19 wines for sale in of Santa Catarina to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery San Michele wines in Santa Catarina among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery San Michele 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 San Michele wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery San Michele wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or pork such as recipes of ramen burger, rabbit with hunter's sauce or simmered pork cheeks with cream sauce and dijon mustard.
On the nose the red wine of Winery San Michele. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak. In the mouth the red wine of Winery San Michele. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
Santa Catarina is a state in the far South of Brazil. Quality wine production is still in its early stages, but is likely to develop rapidly as the industry develops country wide. To date, Santa Catarina's production is a mix of red, white and Sparkling wines.
It Lies immediately North of the country's southernmost state (and most prolific wine region), Rio Grande do Sul.
Located between the latitudes of 26°S and 29°S, Santa Catarina is far from the most obvious of locations for winegrowing. It lies entirely outside the 'wine belt' (the band of latitudes in which effective viniculture is traditionally thought possible). In the southern hemisphere, the wine belt encircles the globe between 30°S and 45°S.
It is on the high-lying plateau, the Planalto Catarinense, that almost all of Santa Catarina's vineyards are located.
The main wine-producing zones are in the central-southern portion of the state, around the towns of Sao Joaquim, Campos Novos and Cacador.
Altitude plays a key role in the Terroir here, particularly in keeping temperatures down. The plateau ranges between 915m and 1400m (3000ft and 4600ft). Basalt soils feature strongly in some parts of the planalto and are credited with bringing complexity to the wines.
How Winery San Michele wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of quiche with bacon and gruyère cheese, sea bream a la plancha or calamari with chorizo.
A very old grape variety grown in the Italian Piedmont. It has a great resemblance with the Freisa, which also comes from the same Italian region. Among the various massal selections made in Italy, we find lampia, michet and rosé. It can be found in Italy, Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Mexico, the United States (California), Australia, etc. In France, it is practically unknown, perhaps because it is a delicate and demanding grape variety with, among other things, a fairly long phenological cycle.
How Winery San Michele wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of kig ha farz (breton stew), chinese fondue or cream and tuna quiche.
In the mouth the sparkling wine of Winery San Michele. is a with a nice freshness.
Aromas resulting from the fermentation and maturation of the wine before bottling. The aging in barrels modifies considerably the texture and the flavours of the wine.
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Originally from Italy, it is the famous Sangiovese of Tuscany producing the famous wines of Brunello de Montalcino and Chianti. This variety is registered in the Official Catalogue of Wine Grape Varieties, list A1. According to recent genetic analysis, it is the result of a natural cross between the almost unknown Calabrese di Montenuovo (mother) and Ciliegiolo (father).
