The Winery Viejo Carreton of Mendoza

Winery Viejo Carreton
The winery offers 11 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 1346 of the estates of Mendoza.
It is located in Mendoza

The Winery Viejo Carreton is one of the best wineries to follow in Mendoza.. It offers 11 wines for sale in of Mendoza to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Viejo Carreton wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Viejo Carreton

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Viejo Carreton

How Winery Viejo Carreton wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry such as recipes of roast beef in a crust, traditional lamb couscous (from algeria) or couscous chicken and merguez.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Viejo Carreton

In the mouth the red wine of Winery Viejo Carreton. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Viejo Carreton

  • 2009With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.32/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.25/5

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

  • Malbec
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Mendoza

Mendoza is by far the largest wine region in Argentina. Located on a high-altitude plateau at the edge of the Andes Mountains, the province is responsible for roughly 70 percent of the country's annual wine production. The French Grape variety Malbec has its New World home in the vineyards of Mendoza, producing red wines of great concentration and intensity. The province Lies on the western edge of Argentina, across the Andes Mountains from Chile.

While the province is large (it covers a similar area to the state of New York), its viticultural land is clustered mainly in the northern Part, just South of Mendoza City. Here, the regions of Lujan de Cuyo, Maipu and the Uco Valley are home to some of the biggest names in Argentinian wine. Mendoza's winemaking history is nearly as Old as the colonial history of Argentina itself. The first vines were planted by priests of the Catholic Church's Jesuit order in the mid-16th Century, borrowing agricultural techniques from the Incas and Huarpes, who had occupied the land before them.

Malbec was introduced around this time by a French agronomist, Miguel Aimé Pouget. In the 1800s, Spanish and Italian immigrants flooded into Mendoza to escape the ravages of the Phylloxera louse that was devastating vineyards in Europe at the time. A boom in wine production came in 1885, when a railway line was completed between Mendoza and the country's capital city, Buenos Aires, providing a cheaper, easier way of sending wines out of the region. For most of the 20th Century, the Argentinean wine industry focused almost entirely on the domestic market, and it is only in the past 25 years that a push toward quality has led to the wines of Mendoza gracing restaurant lists the world over.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Viejo Carreton

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

Discover the grape variety: Malbec

Malbec, a high-yielding red grape variety, produces tannic and colourful wines. It is produced in different wine-growing regions and changes its name according to the grape variety. Called Auxerrois in Cahors, Malbec in Bordeaux, it is also known as Côt. 6,000 hectares of the Malbec grape are grown in France (in decline since the 1950s). Malbec is also very successful in Argentina. The country has become the world's leading producer of Malbec and offers wines with great potential.

News about Winery Viejo Carreton and wines from the region

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 ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘Perhaps they think “drinkers like oak”. Really?’

An electronic dart was tossed at us recently by Decanter reader Tim Frances from Kent. It landed on the screen of our magazine editor Amy Wislocki; Amy lobbed it across the virtual room to me, suggesting a column-length reply. ‘Here’s a poser,’ Tim began. ‘How do your experts grade a wine that they find intellectually well made, but that they truly madly deeply dislike? I’ve tasted wines I can admire dispassionately, but would stab my feet with forks rather than drink them. Must be a conundrum f ...

Decanter’s Regional Editors pick out their top wines for Decanter Fine Wine Encounter NYC

In the first part of this series, see the wines that the Decanter editorial team is most excited about tasting at the Decanter Fine Wine Encounter NYC on Saturday 18th June 2022. Amy Wislocki – Decanter Magazine Editor Cape Landing Blackwood Cabernet Sauvignon, Margaret River 2019 At the end of every year at Decanter, we organise a ‘Wines of the Year‘ tasting. We ask our key contributors and editorial staff to pick out the wines that most impressed them during the year just gon ...

The word of the wine: Nervous

Said of a wine that leaves its mark on the palate with its strong characters and a hint of acidity, but without excess.