The Winery Vitkin - ויתקין is one of the world's great estates. It offers 18 wines for sale in of Judean Hills to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Vitkin - ויתקין wines in Judean Hills among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Vitkin - ויתקין 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 Vitkin - ויתקין wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Vitkin - ויתקין wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of sauté of lamb with curry, tagliatelle with carbonara or duck breast with honey-orange sauce.
On the nose the red wine of Winery Vitkin - ויתקין. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or red fruit.
Judean Hills wine region – which is theoretically further divided into the Jerusalem, Gush Etzion and Southern Judean Hills sub-regions – Lies within the Samson region of Central Israel. The Judean Hills (or Mountains) form a low mountain range that dominates the landscape around Jerusalem and the West Bank. Hebron, Bethlehem and Ramallah also lie within the range, which formed the core territory of the Kingdom of Judah where the earliest Jewish settlements were located. Although not one of Israel's better known wine regions (like Upper Galilee and the Golan Heights in Galilee), Judean Hills is an emerging viticultural area, and significant potential has been identified for its future.
As the region's name implies, the topography here is decidedly hilly, with elevations of up to 1000m above sea level. It is precisely this relief that makes quality viticulture possible here, as the semi-desert of the plains below is typically too hot and arid to allow even the hardiest of vines to produce grapes with balanced sugars, acids and phenolics. This is to be expected given the continental nature of the macroClimate here in the Levant, and Jerusalem's latitude of 31 degrees North. Thus the Judean Hills are a fortunate exception in this otherwise desertous Part of the world.
There are very few northern hemisphere wine regions that are capable of producing quality wines this close to the equator, although attempts are being made in India and Mexico, and the southernmost wine regions of China sit on a similar latitude.
Judean Hills vineyards enjoy more rainfall than those in the Negev to the south, and the climate here is characterized by Warm days and cool nights. This elevated diurnal temperature variation is the secret behind the wines' freshness, as it allows the vines to develop Complex sugars and phenolics during the day, then to cool down (and close down) at night, retaining vital Acidity.
The shallow soils of the finer Judean Hills vineyards have a high stone content, which gives them excellent drainage potential.
How Winery Vitkin - ויתקין wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), spicy food or sweet desserts such as recipes of sublime salmon (stuffed salmon), braised chicken and plantains or quick chocolate fudge cake.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Vitkin - ויתקין. often reveals types of flavors of earth, tree fruit or citrus fruit and sometimes also flavors of tropical fruit, non oak or microbio.
How Winery Vitkin - ויתקין wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, spicy food or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of spaghetti with beef balls, lomo saltado or fondue franc comtoise digeste 100 % comté.
On the nose the pink wine of Winery Vitkin - ויתקין. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit or red fruit and sometimes also flavors of tropical fruit.
Generic term for wines containing residual sugar (natural sugars in the grapes that have not been transformed into alcohol). It is also used to describe a wine with a dominantly sweet flavour, without further explanation.
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