The wine region of Columbia Gorge is located in the region of Oregon of United States. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Smockshop Band or the Domaine Phelps Creek produce mainly wines white, red and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Columbia Gorge are Pinot noir, Chardonnay and Pinot gris, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Columbia Gorge often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, red fruit or oak and sometimes also flavors of earth, spices or floral.
In the mouth of Columbia Gorge is a with a nice freshness. We currently count 61 estates and châteaux in the of Columbia Gorge, producing 176 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Columbia Gorge go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison).
Cultivated for a very long time in Savoie, it is not the black form of mondeuse blanche and Mondeuse grise is a natural mutation of mondeuse noire. According to Thierry Lacombe (I.N.R.A./Montpellier), the latter is the result of a natural intraspecific crossing between the black tressot and the white mondeuse. Mondeuse grise and Mondeuse noire are both registered in the official catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A1.
wines from the region of Columbia Gorge go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of caramelized beef with onions, roast pork with onions and honey or wild boar ragout with kriek.
