The Winery Altipiano of California

Winery Altipiano - Barbera
The winery offers 14 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.1.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of California.
It is located in California
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The Winery Altipiano is one of the best wineries to follow in Californie.. It offers 14 wines for sale in of California to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Altipiano wines

Looking for the best Winery Altipiano wines in California among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Altipiano wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Altipiano wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Altipiano

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Altipiano

How Winery Altipiano wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, spicy food or poultry such as recipes of veal saltimbocca, couscous or grandma's chicken casserole.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Altipiano

On the nose the red wine of Winery Altipiano. often reveals types of flavors of earth, red fruit or spices. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Altipiano. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Altipiano

  • 2016With an average score of 4.30/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Altipiano.

  • Barbera
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Petite Sirah
  • Sangiovese
  • Shiraz/Syrah

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.

The top white wines of Winery Altipiano

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Altipiano

How Winery Altipiano wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, spicy food or mushrooms such as recipes of sausages with kale, empanadas de carne (argentina) or fillets of saint-pierre with cream.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Altipiano.

  • Pinot Grigio

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Altipiano

Planning a wine route in the of California? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Altipiano.

Discover the grape variety: Zinfandel

From Croatia where it is called crljenak kastelanski or pribidrag. According to genetic analyses carried out by Professor Carole Meredith of California University in Davis (United States), it is related to the Croatian plavac mali and Zinfandel. It is also found in South Africa, New Zealand, Chile, Brazil, Germany, Bulgaria, Albania, Italy under the name of Primitivo, Malta, Greece, Portugal and to some extent in Croatia. In the United States (California), it is one of the most widely planted grape varieties, having been introduced in the 1830s well before Primitivo. In France, it is registered in the official catalogue of vine varieties on the A1 list under the name Primitivo.

News about Winery Altipiano and wines from the region

Hospices de Beaune 2021 auction breaks per-barrel sales records

Despite the lowest number of barrels going under the hammer in 15 years, the 2021 Hospices de Beaune charity auction broke per-barrel price records, reaching an impressive total sales figure of €12.5m (£10.48m/$14.09m), excluding buyer premiums. The total was not too far behind last year’s high tally – close to €13.44 million – where almost double the number of barrels were sold. This year’s sale, with 362 lots, including seven barrels of spirits, reached an average price per lot of €34,980 (£29 ...

Former mafia boss Michael Franzese targets international expansion for his wine brand

Franzese was known as the ‘yuppie don’ in the 1980s after rising to the rank of caporegime in the Colombo crime family. Fortune Magazine placed him at No. 18 on its 50 Biggest Mafia Bosses list, and he gained a reputation as one of the mob’s biggest earners since Al Capone. He was portrayed by Joseph Bono in Goodfellas. Franzese became a born-again Christian during a lengthy prison sentence for racketeering, and he managed to walk away from the mafia without going into protective custody. He is ...

Fine wine demand slows as recession fears mount, says Liv-ex

Rampant inflation, the global fuel crisis, recession fears and fiscal tightening from central banks have caused equities and bonds to tank over the past few months. Fine wine has significantly outperformed global equities and most commodities, but market momentum has been ‘much more subdued’ in the second quarter of 2022, said Liv-ex, a global marketplace for the trade. The Liv-ex 1000 – which tracks the performance of 1,000 leading fine wines – increased by 3.6% year-on-year in ster ...

The word of the wine: Maturation

Transformation undergone by the grape when it is enriched with sugar and loses some of its acidity to reach maturity.