The wine region of North Fork of Roanoke is located in the region of Virginia of United States. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Valhalla or the Domaine Valhalla produce mainly wines white, red and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of North Fork of Roanoke are Cabernet franc, Merlot and Viognier, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of North Fork of Roanoke often reveals types of flavors of earth.
We currently count 2 estates and châteaux in the of North Fork of Roanoke, producing 6 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of North Fork of Roanoke go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison).
In November of 2021, Spain’s DO Penedès announced a massive overhaul of their bylaws with many changes aimed at re-orienting the region via a “10-year plan”. One of the key aspects was a new classification system for the estates of the region called, “Vi de Mas”, the first five of which have just been certified. While most wine regions looking to implement a system use the so-called “Burgundian Pyramid” as a structure, Penedès took a different approach that merged some of the Burgundian sy ...
There has been buyer and trade enthusiasm for California’s 2018-vintage releases, yet there is still a sense of the region finding its way on the international fine wine market. Releases of top Cabernet Sauvignon and ‘Bordeaux blend’ wines from the 2018 vintage have added some spark to the California sector of the market this year. ‘We’re seeing much stronger demand for blue-chip 2018s than we did for the 2017s,’ said Ryan Woodhouse, domestic wine buyer for K&L Wine Merchants in the US. Scar ...
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 ...
