The Winery Zolotaya Balka (Золотая Балка) is one of the world's great estates. It offers 56 wines for sale in of Crimea to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Zolotaya Balka (Золотая Балка) wines in Crimea among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Zolotaya Balka (Золотая Балка) 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 Zolotaya Balka (Золотая Балка) wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Zolotaya Balka (Золотая Балка) wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of pork roll with tomato sauce, codfish aioli or quiche lorraine.
On the nose the sparkling wine of Winery Zolotaya Balka (Золотая Балка). often reveals types of flavors of apples, microbio or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit, strawberries or raspberry.
Turkey, located on the Anatolian peninsula between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, produces more grapes than any other country in the world. However, only a very small proportion of these grapes are made into wine; as a predominantly Muslim nation, Turkey's per capita Alcohol consumption is very low.
The lack of wine production in Turkey is highly ironic, as wine historians believe that viticulture and winemaking originated in this Part of the world. Archaeological projects in Turkey and neighboring countries in the Levant have uncovered evidence suggesting that primitive VineBreeding was part of life here more than 6,000 years ago, which explains the abundance of wine grapes (vinifera).
The most commonly used wine grapes in Turkey are those used as table grapes, the only use they could be put to during the seven centuries of Ottoman rule. Ampelographic research has suggested that Turkey is home to between 500 and 1000 distinct varieties of vinifera grapes.
Although Turkey's wine history is one of the oldest in the world, the modern Turkish wine industry is very Young. Turkey only began producing wine again in 1925, as a symbol of the nation's modernization and westernization.
The founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, established the country's oldest winery. The largest winery in modern Turkey is owned by tobacco giant Tekel (whose name translates as "monopoly"), now a subsidiary of British American Tobacco.
Turkey's transcontinental location, between the deserts of Arabia (its eastern neighbours are Syria, Iraq and Iran) and the seas of Eastern Europe (the Mediterranean, the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea), results in significant climatic variations within its borders. While the western coastal regions have a temperate Mediterranean Climate, with hot, Dry summers and milder, wetter winters, the northern regions (on the Black Sea) have significantly higher humidity in summer and colder winters.
How Winery Zolotaya Balka (Золотая Балка) wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of veal tagine with potatoes and olives, quick beef bourguignon or roast deer my grandmother's way.
On the nose the red wine of Winery Zolotaya Balka (Золотая Балка). often reveals types of flavors of non oak, oak or red fruit and sometimes also flavors of black fruit, spices or earth.
Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). 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 to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.
How Winery Zolotaya Balka (Золотая Балка) wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of reblochon tartiflette, light tuna-tomato quiche (without cream) or nanie's diced ham quiche.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Zolotaya Balka (Золотая Балка). often reveals types of flavors of non oak, oak or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of spices, red fruit or black fruit.
Control of the vinification temperatures (by circulating hot or cold water on the walls of the vats, for example). This is a major step forward, which in particular helps to preserve the freshness of the aromas threatened by excessive temperature rises during fermentation.
How Winery Zolotaya Balka (Золотая Балка) wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of roast beef with caramelized onion, chaouia lamb or chicken fajitas.
On the nose the pink wine of Winery Zolotaya Balka (Золотая Балка). often reveals types of flavors of red fruit.
White muscat is a white grape variety of Greek origin. Present in several Mediterranean vineyards, it has several synonyms such as muscat de Die, muscat blanc and frontignac. In France, it occupies a little less than 7,000 ha out of a total of 45,000 ha worldwide. Its young shoots are downy. Its youngest leaves are shiny, bronzed and scabrous. The berries and bunches of this variety are all medium-sized. The flesh of the berries is juicy, sweet and firm. Muscat à petits grains has a second ripening period and buds early in the year. It is moderately vigorous and must be pruned short. It likes poor, stony slopes. This variety is often exposed to spring frosts. It fears mildew, wasps, grape worms, court-noué, grey rot and powdery mildew. Muscat à petits grains is used to make rosé wines and dry white wines. Orange, brown sugar, barley sugar and raisins are the known aromas of these wines.
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