The best wines of Iowa
Discover the best wines of Iowa as well as the best winemakers of Iowa and estates of Iowa to visit. Explore the popular grape varieties of Iowa and the best vintages to taste in this region.
Looking for a good wine of Iowa among the top wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent wines of Iowa. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be appropriate with these exceptional wines. Learn more about the region and the wines of Iowa with technical and enological descriptions.
Want to buy a red wine of Iowa cheap or sell a red wine of Iowa at the best price on the market? Find out which ones are popular and which ones to keep in your cellar for a few more years.
Red wines from the region of Iowa go well with generally quite well with dishes of game (deer, venison), spicy food or beef such as recipes of rabbit with cider and prunes, chicken breast with curry and mushrooms or monkfish tagine.
On the nose the red wine of the region of Iowa. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, red fruit or black fruit.
Iowa is a Midwestern state bordered by the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. The continental Climate and unpredictable weather here - as in many Midwestern states - make viticulture extremely challenging, but Iowa's ever-growing wine industry is finding its feet throughout the state. HybridGrape varieties specifically designed for cold climates make up the majority of plantings, with the best wines coming from Marechal Foch, Frontenac and La Crescent.
Iowa covers 146,000 square kilometers, between latitudes 40 and 43°N.
Iowa is on par with other states in the European Union. This puts Iowa on the same level as the South of France, although the Terroir is very different. While the vineyards of Provence are influenced by the proximity of the Mediterranean Sea, Iowa has a strongly continental climate, with hot, humid summers and Harsh winters. This presents a challenge for the state's winemakers, which they overcome by using native grape varieties and seeking out more temperate mesoclimates.
Want to buy a white wine of Iowa cheap or sell a white wine of Iowa at the best price on the market? Find out which ones are popular and which ones to keep in your cellar for a few more years.
White wines from the region of Iowa go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food such as recipes of rougail sausage, gratin of ravioli with salmon or chicken tajine with prunes.
On the nose the white wine of the region of Iowa. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, red fruit or citrus fruit.
It is the result of a seedling planted in the United States, around 1840, recovered near the Concord River, a small river located east of Massachusetts. According to genetic analysis, it is an interspecific cross between the catawba and a vitis labrusca. Concord was for a long time the main variety cultivated in North America. It was introduced into Europe at the beginning of the 19th century, in France at the beginning of the phylloxera crisis, but was not widely propagated. It could be found in the Valleraugue region (Gard) at the foot of Mont Aigoual, in the Ardèche (our photos), etc. Today, it exists only as an isolated strain that can sometimes be found on the edge of a slope, which was our case. Through various and numerous crosses, it has been used to obtain some rootstocks and direct producer hybrids, which have now almost all disappeared.
Want to buy a pink wine of Iowa cheap or sell a pink wine of Iowa at the best price on the market? Find out which ones are popular and which ones to keep in your cellar for a few more years.
Pink wines from the region of Iowa go well with generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .
Direct producer hybrid, interspecific cross between MN 1094 and Ravat noir obtained in 1989 by Peter Hemstad and James Luby at the University of Minnesota Research Center (United States). Note that it is the cousin of the black frontenac and the grandson of the pinot noir. It can be found in North America, Canada, ... in France it is almost unknown.
Want to buy a sweet wine of Iowa cheap or sell a sweet wine of Iowa at the best price on the market? Find out which ones are popular and which ones to keep in your cellar for a few more years.
Sweet wines from the region of Iowa go well with generally quite well with dishes of sweet desserts such as recipes of brownies with nuts.
An alteration in wine also known as pitting (hence the expression piqué wine), due to the presence of acetic acid and ethyl acetate, and characterized by a vinegar-like odor.
Want to buy a natural-sweet wine of Iowa cheap or sell a natural-sweet wine of Iowa at the best price on the market? Find out which ones are popular and which ones to keep in your cellar for a few more years.
Natural sweet wines from the region of Iowa go well with generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .
Maréchal Foch noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Alsace). It is a variety resulting from a cross of the same species (interspecific hybridization). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches and small grapes. The Maréchal Foch noir can be found cultivated in these vineyards: Provence & Corsica, Rhône Valley, Languedoc & Roussillon.
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