The Winery Zuazo Gaston of Rioja

Winery Zuazo Gaston
The winery offers 26 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 725 of the estates of Rioja.
It is located in Rioja

The Winery Zuazo Gaston is one of the best wineries to follow in Rioja.. It offers 26 wines for sale in of Rioja to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Zuazo Gaston wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Zuazo Gaston

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Zuazo Gaston

How Winery Zuazo Gaston wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or veal such as recipes of beef with cider, leg of lamb cooked in yoghurt / tave kosi (albania) or veal rouelle normande.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Zuazo Gaston

On the nose the red wine of Winery Zuazo Gaston. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, red fruit or black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Zuazo Gaston. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Zuazo Gaston

  • 2016With an average score of 3.78/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.75/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.69/5
  • 2008With an average score of 3.69/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.63/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.63/5

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

  • Tempranillo
  • Graciano
  • Viura

Discovering the wine region of Rioja

Rioja, in northern Spain, is best known for its berry-flavored, barrel-aged red wines made from Tempranillo and Garnacha. It is probably the leading wine region in Spain. It is certainly the most famous, rivaling only Jerez. The Vineyards follow the course of the Ebro for a hundred kilometres between the towns of Haro and Alfaro.

Besides Tempranillo and Garnacha, Graciano and Mazuelo (Carignan) are also used in Rioja's red wines. Some wineries, notably Marqués de Riscal, use small amounts of Cabernet Sauvignon. White grapes are planted much less. In 2017, the vineyard area was recorded at 64,215 hectares (158,679 acres).

The top white wines of Winery Zuazo Gaston

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Zuazo Gaston

How Winery Zuazo Gaston wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, appetizers and snacks or lean fish such as recipes of soupions à la provençale, verrine of beetroot and saint moret or the fisherman's pot.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Zuazo Gaston

On the nose the white wine of Winery Zuazo Gaston. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Zuazo Gaston. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Zuazo Gaston

  • 2015With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.75/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.30/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Zuazo Gaston.

  • Viura

Discover the grape variety: Tempranillo

The black Tempranillo is a grape variety native to Spain. It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by medium-sized bunches and medium-sized grapes. The black Tempranillo can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

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Discover the grape variety: Completer

Very old vine cultivated in Switzerland (canton of Grisons) where writings relating its presence were found in Malans dating from 1321, its origin would however be Italian. It is related to the white humagne, the bondola bianca, the bondoletta, the marzemino and the lafnetscha its mother. It should be noted that the Completer is today little multiplied in Switzerland, almost unknown in France and even less in the other wine-producing countries.

News about Winery Zuazo Gaston and wines from the region

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

Decanter World Wine Awards winners available at Marks & Spencer

Marks & Spencer is no stranger to achieving top scores at the Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA), and to celebrate its results the leading retailer has selected its favourite award-winning wines from this year’s awards, for customers to purchase exclusively on marksandspencer.com. Customers can choose from a carefully selected mix of six delicious winter-warming reds; an irresistible mix of crisp, refreshing, complex white wines from the Old and New World; a mix of both red and white wi ...

Vanilla is the ‘most pleasant’ smell, finds study

Vanilla was ranked as the most pleasant smell in a study involving 235 people and conducted by an international network of researchers, including those from the University of Oxford and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. This was closely followed by ethyl butyrate, ‘which smells like peaches’, said the researchers, who published their findings in the Current Biology journal. Vanilla notes can be found in several wine styles, such as some iterations of Chardonnay or Rioja, largely resulting from ...

The word of the wine: Vine

Climbing shrubs with woody stems called shoots that produce grapes in clusters.

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