The Winery Velar 663 is one of the best wineries to follow in Basilicate.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Basilicata to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Velar 663 wines in Basilicata among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Velar 663 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 Velar 663 wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Velar 663 wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of soupions à la provençale, quiche with leeks and fresh salmon from flo or seed crackers.
Basilicata, in Southern Italy, is a region whose name rarely appears in wine circles. It is best known for its red wines made from the Aglianico grape, and in particular for the Aglianico del Vulture appellation.
It has only four DOCs, which collectively cover only two of every 100 bottles produced here. The remaining 98% is sold under IGT or, more likely, Vino da Tavola.
Compared to other Italian wine regions, total wine production in this region is very low: less than 50 million liters.
Basilicata may not be a particularly Rich region, but it is rich in natural beauty. Its 10,000 square kilometers (3,860 square miles) of land are bordered to the North by Campania and Puglia and to the south by Calabria. Mostly landlocked, with the Ionian Sea on one side and the Tyrrhenian Sea on the other, it has beautiful mountain ranges and hills.
How Winery Velar 663 wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal such as recipes of bernard's potée, lasagna with pointed cabbage or beef bourguignon with cookéo.
On the nose the red wine of Winery Velar 663. often reveals types of flavors of black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Velar 663. is a powerful with a lot of tannins present in the mouth.
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From Croatia where it is called crljenak kastelanski or pribidrag. According to genetic analyses carried out by Professor Carole Meredith of California University in Davis (United States), it is related to the Croatian plavac mali and Zinfandel. It is also found in South Africa, New Zealand, Chile, Brazil, Germany, Bulgaria, Albania, Italy under the name of Primitivo, Malta, Greece, Portugal and to some extent in Croatia. In the United States (California), it is one of the most widely planted grape varieties, having been introduced in the 1830s well before Primitivo. In France, it is registered in the official catalogue of vine varieties on the A1 list under the name Primitivo.
