The Winery Alpa of Coquimbo

Winery Alpa - Domaine de Manson Loica Syrah
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Coquimbo.
It is located in Coquimbo

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

Top Winery Alpa wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Alpa

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Alpa

How Winery Alpa wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of beef marengo "my mom" style, couscous chicken and merguez or rougail sausage.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Alpa

  • 2017With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.40/5

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

  • Shiraz/Syrah

Discovering the wine region of Coquimbo

The Elqui Valley wine region is located 400 kilometers (250mi) North of the Chilean capital, Central-valley/maipo-valley/santiago">Santiago, at the very southern edge of the Atacama Desert. Its latitude of 29° makes it Chile's northernmost wine region, for now at least; the country's determined wine pioneers are now setting their sights as far north as the Atacama. Traditionally the region focused exclusively on producing Chile's trademark brandy, Pisco, but today Elqui Valley vineyards are producing Bright, intensely Aromatic wines, most notably from Sauvignon Blanc and Syrah. As might be expected in an arid, largely uninhabited region surrounded by desert, the valley is hot and Dry making irrigation essential in all vineyards here.

The Elqui province is famous for its bright sunshine, pure air and Clear skies as well as a number of astronomical observatories. Vineyards here receive far higher levels of solar radiation than any European wine region, and this seems to translate into the wine style. The vibrant intensity of Elqui Valley wines, when yields and potential Alcohol are kept in check, can be quite remarkable. The secret to successful viticulture this close to the equator is altitude.

Elqui's vineyards sit up to 2,000 meters (6,550ft) above sea level, which means that the Warm, bright, days are followed by cool, fresh nights. This diurnal temperature variation lengthens the grape growing season, of which allows grapes time to develop intense varietal character, while retaining refreshing levels of acidity. Wineries all over Chile now focus heavily on the altitude of their vineyards. Altitude has become as much a marketing tool as a key element of terroir.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Alpa

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

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet-Volos

An interspecific cross between Cabernet Sauvignon and Bianca obtained in Italy in 2002 by the University of Udine and the Institute of Applied Genetics. It can be found in Germany, Slovakia, ... in France it is almost unknown.

News about Winery Alpa and wines from the region

Chile harvest report 2022: ‘a challenging year in terms of climate’ 

Just over 6,400km in length, Chile is a country with a fascinating range of terroirs. This is fully reflected in the diversity of its wines. Heavily influenced by air currents from the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Andes to the east, all of Chile’s wine producing valleys have their own microclimates, as well as distinct complex soil composition. This variety means that individual vineyards experienced the harvest conditions of 2022 in different ways. It was a year that saw the continuation o ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘Telling stories about terroir will lead us astray’

A domaine’s long history hoists its inanimate wines into life; biography brings meaning to the simple sensual pleasure of tasting a grower’s efforts. It’s important, though, to know what we are doing when we tell stories. And to know what to tell them about. Winemakers take the messy chaos of natural processes and add discipline, giving shape and direction to produce a stable and enticing wine. This was never nature’s intent. The storyteller takes a messy chaos of random events, either imagined ...

Dom Pérignon Rosé 2008 released

For Dom Pérignon, 2008 marked a significant turning point for its Champagnes. It was the year when the two-part renovation of the red wine winery was completed as well as the culmination of learning from a period of experimentation with different tools and techniques from 2000 to 2005. Scroll down to see the tasting note and score for Dom Pérignon Rosé 2008 ‘It’s not even an evolution, but a revolution between 2000 and today,’ said Dom Pérignon chef de cave Vincent Chaperon. ‘W ...

The word of the wine: Friendly

Said of a wine whose aspects are pleasant and not too marked.

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