The Winery Tenuta Montalbano of Ticino

Winery Tenuta Montalbano - Bianco
The winery offers 5 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.4.
It is ranked in the top 251 of the estates of Ticino.
It is located in Ticino

The Winery Tenuta Montalbano is one of the best wineries to follow in Ticino.. It offers 5 wines for sale in of Ticino to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Tenuta Montalbano wines

Looking for the best Winery Tenuta Montalbano wines in Ticino among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Tenuta Montalbano 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 Tenuta Montalbano wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Tenuta Montalbano

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Tenuta Montalbano

How Winery Tenuta Montalbano wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of fleischnacka leaf or old-fashioned venison stew.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Tenuta Montalbano.

  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Ticino

Ticino is a relatively small wine region in the alpine South of Switzerland, prized for its Merlot, and located along its border with Italy. The wine region's borders follow those of the canton of Ticino, a primarily Italian-speaking enclave in the landlocked multilingual country (the canton is called "Tessin" by the French and German speakers). Vineyard">Vineyards in region cover just over 1,100 hectares (2,700 acres) and are centred around the rivers and large, alpine lakes of the canton. The latter are a major tourist attraction - much like the lake of Como, just 5km (3 miles) from Ticino's southernmost tip - and they all share water with Italy.

Merlot is the flagship variety here. This Bordeaux variety, which may seem an unusual variety of preference for a Swiss wine region, was introduced to Ticino in the early 20th century. It makes up just over 80 percent of the entire vineyard area and has been so successful, it has been given its own appellation: Merlot del Ticino. This can be relatively light or – when from the warmer, sunnier vineyards and carefully vinified with oak – as fine and well Structured as good red Bordeaux.

Other varieties include Chardonnay (4 percent) and Sauvignon Blanc (1. 7 percent). In total, white wines only represent nine percent of the regional output. Other than Merlot, reds include (in order of planting area) Cabernet Franc, Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon and one of Switzerland's "indigenous" crossings: Gamaret.

The top red wines of Winery Tenuta Montalbano

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Tenuta Montalbano

How Winery Tenuta Montalbano wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or veal such as recipes of southern beef meatballs, lamb chops à la champvallon or pork shank stew.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Tenuta Montalbano

In the mouth the red wine of Winery Tenuta Montalbano. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Tenuta Montalbano

  • 2011With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.64/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.59/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.58/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.33/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.20/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Tenuta Montalbano.

  • Merlot

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.

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Discover the grape variety: Delrho

Intraspecific crossing obtained in 1959 between Alphonse Lavallée and Csaba pearl. Delrho has been registered in the Official Catalogue of Table Grape Varieties, list A1, since 1986, but today it is practically not multiplied.

News about Winery Tenuta Montalbano and wines from the region

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

The word of the wine: Old vines

There are no specific regulations governing the term "vieilles vignes". After 20 to 25 years, the yields stabilize and tend to decrease, the vines are deeply rooted, and the grapes that come from them give richer, more concentrated, more sappy wines, expressing with more nuance the characteristics of their terroir. It is possible to find plots of vines that claim to be a century old.