Winery Afton Mountain Vineyard - Estate Reserve Petit Verdot

Winery Afton Mountain VineyardEstate Reserve Petit Verdot

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(Average of the reviews for all vintages combined and from several consumer review sources)
Tasters consider this wine to be one of the best in the region.
The Estate Reserve Petit Verdot of Winery Afton Mountain Vineyard is a red wine from the region of Monticello of Virginia.
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.
The Estate Reserve Petit Verdot of the Winery Afton Mountain Vineyard is in the top 50 of wines of Monticello.

Wine flavors and olphactive analysis

On the nose the Estate Reserve Petit Verdot of Winery Afton Mountain Vineyard in the region of Virginia often reveals types of flavors of microbio, oak or black fruit.

Food and wine pairings with Estate Reserve Petit Verdot

Pairings that work perfectly with Estate Reserve Petit Verdot

Original food and wine pairings with Estate Reserve Petit Verdot

The Estate Reserve Petit Verdot of Winery Afton Mountain Vineyard matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of beef tagine with prunes and almonds or pasta with zucchini sauce.

Details and technical informations about Winery Afton Mountain Vineyard's Estate Reserve Petit Verdot.

Grape varieties
Region/Great wine region
Great wine region
Style of wine
Allergens
Contains sulfites

Discover the grape variety: Petit Verdot

Petit Verdot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (southwest). 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. Petit Verdot noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Armagnac.

Last vintages of this wine

Estate Reserve Petit Verdot - 2014
In the top 50 of of Monticello wines
Average rating: 411110

The best vintages of Estate Reserve Petit Verdot from Winery Afton Mountain Vineyard are 2014

Informations about the Winery Afton Mountain Vineyard

The winery offers 21 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is in the top 5 of the best estates in the region
It is located in Monticello in the region of Virginia

The Winery Afton Mountain Vineyard is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 19 wines for sale in the of Monticello to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Virginia
In the top 35000 of of United States wines
In the top 55 of of Monticello wines
In the top 150000 of red wines
In the top 250000 wines of the world

The wine region of Monticello

The wine region of Monticello is located in the region of Virginia of United States. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Jefferson Vineyards or the Domaine Jefferson Vineyards produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Monticello are Cabernet franc, Chardonnay and Merlot, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Monticello often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, oak or tree fruit.


The wine region of Virginia

Virginia is a state on the eastern seaboard of the United States, located immediately South of Maryland and North of the Carolinas. The state covers 42,750 square miles (110,750 km2) of mountains, valleys and the Atlantic coastal Complex that forms its eastern border. From the Cumberland and Blue Ridge Mountains in the west to the coastal creeks and estuaries in the east, Virginia's topography and geology are varied, to say the least. The landscape around the Chesapeake Bay - a vast coastal inlet that separates the main state from its Eastern Shore - could hardly be more different from that below Mt Rogers (1,750m), 480km to the west.

News related to this wine

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Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Lugny, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are available in French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneWines ...

The Rully appellation investigated through its geology and geography

The Bourgogne Wine Board (BIVB) invites you to enjoy this video in which Jean-Pierre Renard, Expert Instructor at the Ecole des Vins de Bourgogne, explains the topographical and geological characteristics of the Rully appellation. Here the vineyard is planted on different hills which have very different gelogicial characteristics. It partly explains the great diversity in the expression of the Rully wines. This video is taken from the “Rendez-vous avec les vins de Bourgogne” program (February 20 ...

The word of the wine: Wort

Juice before fermentation, still loaded with sugar.

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