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Los Vascos Sauvignon Blanc 2008

Лос Васкос Совиньон Блан 2008
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Producer:
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Los Vascos
Country:
Chile (Чили) 
Region:
Colchagua Valley
Vintage:
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2008
Variety:
Sauvignon Blanc (Совиньон Блан)
€ 8.18  
Added by demiro
28 Jul 2009

Winemaker's notes:
Los Vascos, one of Chile's oldest wine estates, is controlled by Domaines Barons de Rothschild (Lafite), who began a comprehensive modernization and investment program in 1988. The 500 - hectare vineyard is located in the Colchagua valley which offers a healthy microclimate for its ungrafted pre-phylloxera Bordeaux rootstock. Under the direct technical supervision of the Domaines, Los Vascos is committed to producing the finest consistent and balanced wines whose elegance and harmony are to be shared with the discriminating connaisseurs around the world.

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How to drink it
Food: Antipasto, Asparagus, Carpaccio (Tuna), Chicken Salad, Cold Meats, Crab, Curry (Fish or Chicken), Lobster, Mussels, Nuts, Olives, Oysters (Raw), Pasta Salad, Pasta with Shellfish, Pasta with Vegetables, Red Snapper, Salmon, Sashimi, Scallops, Shrimp, Smoked Fish (Trout, Herring), Sushi, Swordfish, Thai, Tuna
Cheese: Blue Castello, Goat Cheese, Gruyere, Sharp Cheddar
Temperature: 12 °C
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Let's say a grape variety normally takes 120 days to ripen. In an especially hot year, it may ripen after only 110 days; in a cooler year, after 130 days. Viticulturists generally do want a long growing seasons. Long ripening allows components in the grape other that sugar - tannins, for example - ...
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1pama
24 May 2010		 
2terziev
21 Jun 2010