The Winery Turmalina of San Juan

Winery Turmalina - Chardonnay
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.3.
It is ranked in the top 202 of the estates of San Juan.
It is located in San Juan

The Winery Turmalina is one of the best wineries to follow in San Juan.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of San Juan to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Turmalina wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Turmalina

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Turmalina

How Winery Turmalina wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of veal saltimbocca, sea bass in mustard and rosemary wrappers or tuna, pepper and tomato quiche.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Turmalina

  • 2019With an average score of 3.10/5
  • 2016With an average score of 2.80/5

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

  • Chardonnay

Discovering the wine region of San Juan

San Juan is an important Argentinean wine-producing area, producing wines of increasing quality using traditional European Grape varieties. The wine region of San Juan covers the administrative area of the same name in the north-western corner of Argentina. The province sits between Mendoza and La Rioja, and is almost entirely contained within the mountainous foothills of the Andes. In terms of production Volume, San Juan is Argentina's second-largest wine region after Mendoza.

It accounts for 17 percent of the national Vineyard">Vineyard area with 32,274 hectares (79,752 acres) recorded by the National Viticulture Institute in 2019. About half of the province's agricultural land is devoted to vineyards. Vineyards lie in a series of valleys across the center-west of San Juan. The most important area of production is the Tulum Valley.

Other subregions include the Zonda Valley and the high-quality Pedernal Valley. San Juan Grape Varieties Syrah and the ever-present Malbec are the foremost varieties in terms of prestige. In terms of vineyard area, red grapes account for just under 38 percent of the total, with white grapes at 26 percent. The 2019 Annual Surface Report of the National Viticulture Institute recorded the main varieties.

The top red wines of Winery Turmalina

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Turmalina

How Winery Turmalina wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of family potluck, lamb mice confit and melting carrots or rabbit, cabbage, bacon.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Turmalina

  • 2017With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.00/5

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

  • Shiraz/Syrah

Discover the grape variety: Jurançon

Jurançon white is a grape variety that originated in France (South West). 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 grapes of medium size. The white Jurançon can be found cultivated in these vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Languedoc & Roussillon, Rhone Valley.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Turmalina

Planning a wine route in the of San Juan? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Turmalina.

Discover the grape variety: Bicane

We do not know exactly its origin. It has been used as a genitor to obtain new varieties, Pirovano's Italia in 1911 is a proud example. Today, it is no longer multiplied in nurseries and is therefore in danger of extinction.

News about Winery Turmalina 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 ...

Argentina harvest report 2022: ‘wines with excellent ageing potential’ 

The grapes have been picked and Argentina is able to file another successful harvest for 2022, to match the previous four years. However producers are reporting that 2022 was the most singular of recent vintages, with each region experiencing its own challenges. Mendoza ‘The 2021-2022 season reminds me of a good Hollywood movie,’ said Martín Kaiser, viticulturist at Doña Paula in Mendoza. ‘It certainly kept us entertained. Our hearts were in our mouths all the way through, but it had a great end ...

Argentina harvest report 2022: ‘wines with excellent ageing potential’ 

The grapes have been picked and Argentina is able to file another successful harvest for 2022, to match the previous four years. However producers are reporting that 2022 was the most singular of recent vintages, with each region experiencing its own challenges. Mendoza ‘The 2021-2022 season reminds me of a good Hollywood movie,’ said Martín Kaiser, viticulturist at Doña Paula in Mendoza. ‘It certainly kept us entertained. Our hearts were in our mouths all the way through, but it had a great end ...

The word of the wine: Away from the eye

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