Top 100 wines of Red Hills Lake County

Discover the top 100 best wines of Red Hills Lake County of North Coast as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the wines that are popular of Red Hills Lake County and the best vintages to taste in this region.

Discovering the wine region of Red Hills Lake County

The wine region of Red Hills Lake County is located in the region of Lake County of California of United States. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Obsidian Ridge or the Domaine Robledo Family produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Red Hills Lake County are Cabernet-Sauvignon, Malbec and Zinfandel, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Red Hills Lake County often reveals types of flavors of oaky, blackberry or citrus fruit and sometimes also flavors of dried fruit, floral or vegetal.

In the mouth of Red Hills Lake County is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 69 estates and châteaux in the of Red Hills Lake County, producing 118 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Red Hills Lake County go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or veal.

Discover the grape variety: Grenache

Grenache noir is a grape variety that originated in 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 to large bunches, and grapes of medium size. Grenache noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Languedoc & Roussillon, Rhone Valley, Loire Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

Food and wine pairing with a wine of Red Hills Lake County

wines from the region of Red Hills Lake County go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or veal such as recipes of sauté of lamb with curry, stuffed zucchini with merguez, beef and spices or beef tournedos with boursin.

Organoleptic analysis of wine of Red Hills Lake County

On the nose in the region of Red Hills Lake County often reveals types of flavors of oaky, blackberry or citrus fruit and sometimes also flavors of dried fruit, floral or vegetal. In the mouth in the region of Red Hills Lake County is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

News from the vineyard of Red Hills Lake County

Hugh Johnson: ‘I’ve formed a bond with Grillo and flirted with Verdicchio’

I’d like to say we took advantage of the lockdown and its related commotion to do a stock-take, explore new avenues, turn over intriguing stones, widen and deepen our drinking, taking careful notes as we went. Sadly, no. I won’t say we got stuck in a rut, but we did tend to stick with comfort wines – and “comfort”, in our case, means familiar. Regular readers of this quarterly column can probably guess the labels on the resulting empties. We have a wider range of comfort foods, I’m afraid, than ...

Rethinking the wine bottle for the future

There’s been a focus on making wine production less energy intensive as well as environmentally friendly in order to address climate change. The efforts continue but, as is the case for electric cars where it’s the battery technology that needs innovating, it’s in wine bottles where we’re seeing rapid change. It comes in a two-pronged attack to reduce energy use in manufacturing and then an even bigger emphasis on reducing bottle weight for shipping to reduce fuel usage and thus CO2 production. ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘The gifts of Bacchus hold our gaze like a procession’

Do growers make wine – or do markets? Growers, of course. Yet markets define the scope of the grower’s creative efforts by what they reward or sanction. When markets are neglectful and unresponsive, there’s little the grower can do but conform. It’s a problem the world over. Here’s an example. The river Moselle/Mosel rises to the wet west of the Vosges mountains, then curves in a long green arc heading north through Epinal, Metz and (along the left bank) Luxembourg’s Grand Duchy, turning east at ...