The Winery Tarapacá is one of the world's great estates. It offers 139 wines for sale in of Maipo Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Tarapacá wines in Maipo Valley among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Tarapacá 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 Tarapacá wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Tarapacá wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or lamb such as recipes of daube niçoise, lasagne simplissimo or pastillas with lamb and apricots.
On the nose the red wine of Winery Tarapacá. often reveals types of flavors of earth, oil or tar and sometimes also flavors of menthol, black olive or balsamic. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Tarapacá. is a powerful.
Maipo Valley is one of Chile's most important wine-producing regions. Located just South of the capital, Central-valley/maipo-valley/santiago">Santiago, Maipo Valley is home to some of the country's most prestigious wines. It is often described as the 'Bordeaux of South America', and Rich, fruit-driven Cabernet Sauvignon is undoubtedly its most celebrated wine style.
Maipo is at the very Northern end of Chile's extensive Central Valley, running from just north of the Rapel Valley up to where the countryside begins to give way to houses and roads in the southern suburbs of Santiago.
The Coastal Range separates the area from the Pacific coast, and on the eastern side, the Andes Mountains rise suddenly and dramatically, separating Maipo from the Argentinean region of Mendoza.
The Maipo Valley is the home of viticulture in Chile. The first vines were Planted around Santiago at the city's birth in the 1540s, but it wasn't until the 1800s that viticulture began to expand significantly, as an indirect result of entrepreneurial Chileans growing rich from the Mineral wealth found in the Atacama Desert to the north. It became fashionable for these wealthy individuals to travel to France, and they inevitably returned home with vines to plant in their New, French-influenced wine estates.
The vineyards of Cousino Macul, Concha Y Toro and Santa Rita were developed during this period, and they remain today important names in the Chilean wine industry.
The region can be roughly separated into three broad areas: Alto Maipo, Central Maipo and Maipo Bajo.
The vineyards of Alto Maipo (or Upper Maipo) run along the eastern edge of the Andes Mountains, where they benefit from altitudes of 1300-2500ft (400-760m) above sea level. At this height, Warm sun during the day is followed by colder nights, which slow ripening.
How Winery Tarapacá wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or goat cheese such as recipes of californian sushi (reverse maki), goat cheese and bacon quiche or potato casserole with goat cheese and chorizo.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Tarapacá. often reveals types of flavors of citrus, peach or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit, non oak or earth. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Tarapacá. is a powerful.
How Winery Tarapacá wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or spicy food such as recipes of mexican salad with spicy dressing, scupion (small cuttlefish) in hot sauce or lamb tagine with prunes.
On the nose the sweet wine of Winery Tarapacá. often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, mango or dried fruit and sometimes also flavors of floral, citrus fruit or spices.
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How Winery Tarapacá wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of filet mignon of veal with cider, pizza calzone with ham and mushrooms or rabbit with goat cheese and mint.
On the nose the sparkling wine of Winery Tarapacá. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, microbio or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit.
Carménère is a grape variety of Bordeaux origin. It is the result of a cross between Cabernet Franc and Gros Cabernet. In France, it occupies only about ten hectares, but it is also grown in Chile, Peru, the Andes, California, Italy and Argentina. The leaves of the carmenere are shiny and revolute. Its berries are round and medium-sized. Carménère is susceptible to grey rot, especially in wet autumn. It can also be exposed to the risk of climatic coulure, which is why it is important to grow it on poor soil and in warm areas. Carménère is associated with an average second ripening period. This variety has only one approved clone, 1059. It can be vinified with Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. It produces a rich, highly coloured wine, which acquires character when combined with other grape varieties.
How Winery Tarapacá wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of oxtail confit in red wine, couscous chicken and merguez or lamb tagine with prunes.
On the nose the pink wine of Winery Tarapacá. often reveals types of flavors of vegetal, citrus fruit or red fruit.
The main species of vine cultivated in Europe and throughout the world, the origin of most of the great grape varieties.
Planning a wine route in the of Maipo Valley? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Tarapacá.
Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.
Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Azé, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are available in French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneWines/ ...
Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Montbellet, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are availablein French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneW ...
Let’s have a look at Saint-Véran vineyard and discover the magnificent and very diverse landscapes of this appellation situated in the South of Bourgogne. Saint-Véran is one of the 5 Village appellations with Pouilly-Fuissé, Pouilly-Vinzelles, Pouilly-Loché and Viré-Clessé. Like them, it produces only white wines from the Chardonnay grape. What makes it special is that the vineyard is cut in two dinstinct parts by the vineyard of Pouilly-Fuissé. As anywhere else in the vineyard in Bourgogn ...
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