The Winery Santa Maria (BL) of Thracian Valley

Winery Santa Maria (BL) - Cabernet Sauvignon - Petit Verdot - Merlot
The winery offers 17 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 741 of the estates of Thracian Valley.
It is located in Thracian Valley

The Winery Santa Maria (BL) is one of the best wineries to follow in Thracian Valley.. It offers 17 wines for sale in of Thracian Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Santa Maria (BL) wines

Looking for the best Winery Santa Maria (BL) wines in Thracian Valley among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Santa Maria (BL) 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 Santa Maria (BL) wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Santa Maria (BL)

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Santa Maria (BL)

How Winery Santa Maria (BL) wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of traditional hungarian goulash, leg of lamb with baked potatoes or home-made cassoulet.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Santa Maria (BL)

On the nose the red wine of Winery Santa Maria (BL). often reveals types of flavors of red fruit, black fruit.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Santa Maria (BL)

  • 2012With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.30/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Santa Maria (BL).

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Petit Verdot
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Marselan

Discovering the wine region of Thracian Valley

Thracian Lowlands is a wine region in the South of Bulgaria. It one of two PGI designations for Bulgarian wine recognized for export into the EU. The other is Danubian Plains. Both were introduced in 2007 as Part of Bulgaria's preparations for joining the EU.

Together they are responsible for around 30 percent of the country's wine production. There are also 52 smaller PDOs (the equivalent of an AOP in France) but only a few of them are used for any great volumes. However a considerable number of traditional (dating back before 2007) geographic terms are still used by wineries. Red wine grapes are to the fore in the western part of the appellation.

Leading varieties include the Bordeaux varieties, Ruby Cabernet, Mavrud and Pamid. Mavrud is very much an indigenous flagship variety for the area. Wine Centers in the west include Asenovgrad, Brezovo and Perushtitsa. The zone is very large, and so general comments regarding wine styles and growing conditions are very Hard to make.

The top white wines of Winery Santa Maria (BL)

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Santa Maria (BL)

How Winery Santa Maria (BL) wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of salted lentils, summer tuna quiche or mushroom, bacon and gruyere quiche.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Santa Maria (BL).

  • Chardonnay

Discover the grape variety: Petit Verdot

Petit Verdot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (southwest). 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 bunches and small grapes. Petit Verdot noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Armagnac.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Santa Maria (BL)

Planning a wine route in the of Thracian Valley? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Santa Maria (BL).

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). 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 bunches, and small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.

News about Winery Santa Maria (BL) and wines from the region

Moldovan winery creates ‘Freedom Blend’ to support Ukrainian refugees

The ‘Freedom Blend’blend uses a combination of indigenous grape varieties from Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova to symbolise and celebrate freedom in those countries. Purcari is located just 15 miles from the Ukrainian border. It has turned its luxury suites, tasting rooms and conferences rooms into emergency accommodation, housing more than 5,000 people that have fled war-torn Ukraine in the wake of the Russian invasion. The award-winning winery – which claimed best-in-show, platinum an ...

EU grants member states the right to use resistant hybrid varieties in appellation wines

Following a recent modification of EU rules, member states are now allowed to employ resistant varieties in the production of wines with protected denominations of origin (PDO). The decision, published last week in the Official Journal of the European Union, is part of a wider revision of previous regulations that established common quality schemes, organisation of the market, definitions, descriptions, presentations, and labelling of European agricultural products and foodstuffs. Before the ann ...

Guigal acquires Tavel rosé estate Château d’Aqueria

Guigal has acquired Château d’Aqueria for an undisclosed fee in a deal that adds to a sense of fresh dynamism in the historic vineyards of Tavel, a rosé-only appellation that lies on the west bank of the Rhône river in southern France. Marcel Guigal, son of Guigal domaine founder Etienne, said, ‘Our family is delighted to join the Tavel appellation and to participate in the promotion of this great gastronomic rosé.’ Château d’Aqueria. Photo credit: Courtesy of E. Guigal. The purchase puts ...

The word of the wine: Blanc de blancs (champagne)

Champagne made only from the Chardonnay grape. The expression has been somewhat overused by the intensive use made of it by certain large distributors of white table wines (or sparkling wines) who were thus seeking to promote their product.