The Winery Alto Vineyards of Illinois

Winery Alto Vineyards
The winery offers 31 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 16 of the estates of Illinois.
It is located in Illinois

The Winery Alto Vineyards is one of the world's great estates. It offers 31 wines for sale in of Illinois to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Alto Vineyards wines

Looking for the best Winery Alto Vineyards wines in Illinois among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Alto Vineyards 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 Alto Vineyards wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Alto Vineyards

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Alto Vineyards

How Winery Alto Vineyards wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of game (deer, venison) or spicy food such as recipes of roast duck in the oven or pasta shells.

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

  • Chambourcin
  • Concord

Discovering the wine region of Illinois

Illinois is a U. S. state located South of the Great Lakes region and bordered by Missouri to the west and Indiana to the east. The state is one of the fastest-growing wine producers in the United States; the number of wineries doubled in the late 1990s and now stands at over 100.

Illinois covers 150,000 square kilometers (58,000 square miles) between latitudes 36°N and 42°N, similar to northern California. However, the unpredictable and often Harsh winters of the Midwest mean that viticulture is not as widespread as in the key Californian regions of Napa Valley and Sonoma County. Most Illinois vineyards are located in the south, where they can take advantage of slightly warmer temperatures and increased exposure to sunlight. Illinois has a Long and successful wine-growing history dating back to the mid-19th century, when settlers planted grapes along the banks of the Mississippi River to make wine.

By the turn of the century, Illinois was the fourth largest wine-producing state in the United States. Like many states, this thriving wine industry was devastated by the advent of Prohibition in 1920, when most of Illinois' vineyards were uprooted in favor of grain crops.

The top white wines of Winery Alto Vineyards

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Alto Vineyards

How Winery Alto Vineyards wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

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

  • Chardonel

Discover the grape variety: Chambourcin

Chambourcin noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Rhône-Alpes valley). 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 large bunches of grapes of medium size. Chambourcin noir can be found in several vineyards: Rhone Valley, Loire Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Languedoc & Roussillon, Armagnac, Provence & Corsica.

The top sweet wines of Winery Alto Vineyards

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Alto Vineyards

How Winery Alto Vineyards wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Winery Alto Vineyards

  • 2008With an average score of 4.30/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Winery Alto Vineyards.

  • Concord
  • Niagara

The word of the wine: Tasting

Sensory analysis of the wine according to a precise procedure and steps, using an appropriate vocabulary.

The top natural sweet wines of Winery Alto Vineyards

Food and wine pairings with a natural sweet wine of Winery Alto Vineyards

How Winery Alto Vineyards wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of game (deer, venison) or spicy food such as recipes of stuffed cabbage leaves or dal lentils with coconut milk.

The grape varieties most used in the natural sweet wines of Winery Alto Vineyards.

  • Chambourcin

Discover the grape variety: Concord

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.

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News about Winery Alto Vineyards and wines from the region

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Chaintré

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-Chaintré, 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/BourgogneWi ...

An overview of Saint-Véran appellation

Let’s have a look at Saint-Véran vineyard and discover the magnificent and very diverse landscapes of this appellation situated in the South of Bourgogne. Saint-Véran is one of the 5 Village appellations with Pouilly-Fuissé, Pouilly-Vinzelles, Pouilly-Loché and Viré-Clessé. Like them, it produces only white wines from the Chardonnay grape. What makes it special is that the vineyard is cut in two dinstinct parts by the vineyard of Pouilly-Fuissé. As anywhere else in the vineyard in Bourgogn ...

The Morey Saint Denis 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 Morey-Saint-Denis appellation. The vineyard lies on an intensely fractured area. Several characteristic zones can be distinguished, we can say that each Climat has its own personality. This video is taken from the “Rendez-vous avec les vins de Bourgogne” program broadcasted in April 2021 ...

The word of the wine: Tasting

Sensory analysis of the wine according to a precise procedure and steps, using an appropriate vocabulary.

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