Top 100 wines of California - Page 5
Discover the top 100 best wines of California as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the wines that are popular of California and the best vintages to taste in this region.
Discovering the wine region of California
California is the largest and most important wine region in the United States. It represents the southern two-thirds (850 miles or 1,370 kilometers) of the country's west coast. (Oregon and Washington make up the rest. ) The state also spans nearly 10 degrees of latitude.
With its mountains, valleys, plains and plateaus, California's topography is as Complex as its Climate, offering winemakers a bewildering array of terroirs. California wines have only gained worldwide recognition in recent decades (especially after the 1976 Paris ruling). However, the state's wine history goes back more than 200 years. European vines were first planted in the 18th century, when settlers and missionaries moved up and down the West Coast.
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.
Food and wine pairing with a wine of California
wines from the region of California go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or veal such as recipes of scottish haggis, fillet of lamb in potato dressing or filet mignon of veal with cider.
Organoleptic analysis of wine of California
On the nose in the region of California often reveals types of flavors of oak, graham cracker or pomegranate and sometimes also flavors of balsamic, menthol or pipe tobacco. In the mouth in the region of California is a powerful with a nice freshness.
News from the vineyard of California
Best in Show: The top 50 wines of DWWA 2022
The 0.27% of entries awarded Best in Show at this year’s Decanter World Wine Awards reflect the inspiring world of wine and quest for quality among winemakers globally, with 50 wines expressing the best of their categories. An all-time record for wines tasted at the world’s largest wine competition, it’s quite possible that Decanter World Wine Awards 2022 marks the largest-ever wine competition to be held in history. And of the record-breaking 18,244 wines tasted, just 50 were ...
Andrew Jefford: ‘2021 has been the year of all the miseries’
How’s the weather been this year? Awful. ‘La nature m’écoeure’, one of my wine-growing friends posted on Facebook on 8 April, having been out to look at the frost-crippled shoots on his vines that morning: ‘Nature disgusts me’. It takes a lot to make a wine-grower feel that. He wasn’t alone. Jeremiads echo around the northern hemisphere as 2021 closes. It’s been the year of all the miseries. None suffered more horribly than the growers of Germany’s Ahr valley, where floodwaters caused by the fou ...
Travel inspiration: Decanter’s 50 best wine trips
From Champagne hotels to Napa wineries, Decanter’s list of 50 fantastic wine trips reflects how we have been inspiring readers with wine travel ideas in print for nearly 50 years, and online for more than two decades. Whether you’re looking for last-minute inspiration, planning the trip of a lifetime or just dreaming, we are here to help. We ranked every travel feature on decanter.com according to popularity over the past year, and the list ranges from recent expert guides to archive class ...
Top wines in regions and sub-regions of California
The best wines of California in other styles
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- The best wines red of California in other styles
- The best wines sparkling of California in other styles
- The best wines sweet of California in other styles
- The best wines white of California in other styles