Top 100 wines of Clear Lake
Discover the top 100 best wines of Clear Lake of North Coast as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the wines that are popular of Clear Lake and the best vintages to taste in this region.
Discovering the wine region of Clear Lake
The wine region of Clear Lake is located in the region of Lake County of California of United States. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Arnot-Roberts or the Domaine Arnot-Roberts produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Clear Lake are Malbec, Zinfandel and Cabernet-Sauvignon, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Clear Lake often reveals types of flavors of cherry, spices or rhubarb and sometimes also flavors of non oak, earth or microbio.
In the mouth of Clear Lake is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 14 estates and châteaux in the of Clear Lake, producing 26 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Clear Lake go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or veal.
News from the vineyard of Clear Lake
Walls: Domaine Alain Voge’s evolution in 10 wines
Some Cornas estates, like Domaine Clape, feel as ancient and unchanging as the granite hills themselves. Others, like Domaine Alain Voge, go through periods of flux. When this is due to vineyards being ripped out, bought or sold, then the whole profile of an estate can be altered. That’s not the case at Voge. Instead, it’s due to the coming and going of people and the unavoidable change that entails. I visited Lionel Fraisse, the current managing director at Domaine Alain Voge, to taste a select ...
Wartime Cognac
The French shipment of 600 bottles of De Haartman & Co Cognac – plus 15 boxes of Bénédictine liqueur – is believed to have been destined for Tsar Nicholas II, but was intercepted in the Baltic Sea and sunk by a German submarine in May 1917. Now Cognac house Birkedal Hartmann has refilled 300 of the recovered bottles with Cognac dating from the early 1900s, using packaging identical to the original, and is selling them for €9,000 each. The wreck of the SS Kyros was discovered by Swedish explo ...
Anthony Barton: tributes paid to Bordeaux wine great
The Barton family announced yesterday (19 January), ‘We have the immense sadness to inform you that our beloved Anthony Barton passed away at the age of 91 years old.’ Known as the ‘gentleman’ of Bordeaux wine and admired for his sense of humour and charisma, Anthony Barton was also widely respected for modernising family estates Léoville Barton and Langoa Barton – the respective 1855 second and third growth châteaux in the St-Julien appellation. Barton was credited, too, with maintaining ...