The Winery Athena of California

Winery Athena
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of California.
It is located in California

The Winery Athena is one of the best wineries to follow in Californie.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of California to come and discover on site or to buy online.

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Top Winery Athena wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Athena

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Athena

How Winery Athena wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of autumn beef bourguignon, pastasotto pepper merguez (risotto style pasta) or cassoulet of yesteryear.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Athena

On the nose the red wine of Winery Athena. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, oak or spices. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Athena. is a powerful with a lot of tannins present in the mouth.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Athena

  • 2017With an average score of 3.97/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.80/5

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Pinot Noir

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 Athena

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Athena

How Winery Athena wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of truffade (auvergne - cantal - 15), english tuna croque-monsieur or quiche with bacon and gruyère cheese.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Athena

On the nose the white wine of Winery Athena. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, microbio or vegetal and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Athena. is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Athena

  • 2017With an average score of 3.50/5

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

  • Chardonnay

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). 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. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Athena

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 Athena.

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Pinot noir is an important red grape variety in Burgundy and Champagne, and its reputation is well known! Great wines such as the Domaine de la Romanée Conti elaborate their wines from this famous grape variety, and make it a great variety. When properly vinified, pinot noit produces red wines of great finesse, with a wide range of aromas depending on its advancement (fruit, undergrowth, leather). it is also the only red grape variety authorized in Alsace. Pinot Noir is not easily cultivated beyond our borders, although it has enjoyed some success in Oregon, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

News about Winery Athena and wines from the region

What the Decanter team is drinking this Christmas

Tina Gellie, Content Manager and Regional Editor (Australia, South Africa, New Zealand & Canada) It was a big year of Decanter travel for me, heading to Napa and New York in June, South Africa in October and most recently a week each in Margaret River and South Australia. These trips have formed the basis of my festive selections. Christmas lunch on North Stradbroke Island (reunited with my family after four years, no thanks to Covid) always starts with oysters, followed by a bucket of prawn ...

Hugh Johnson: ‘A comatose customer is not in a position to order another bottle’

We all have different motives in choosing wine. There are those hoping for a journey into unexplored regions of sublime sensation, and those with earthier desires, happy when the first glass has them seeing double. There are wines to accommodate them both: a prickly little Mosel on the one hand and a 15% Barolo on the other. Doesn’t the ideal wine, though, combine the two – inspiration with stimulus, perfume with punch? The three little letters ‘abv’ (alcohol by volume) only tell half the story, ...

Stephen Brook: ‘It is astonishing how rapidly changes can take place in the Bordeaux region’

My book The Complete Bordeaux, which has been revised every five years, is soon to be published in its fourth edition. This may seem like excessive haste, given the scope of the book, but it is astonishing how rapidly changes can take place in the region. Burgundy, in contrast, is relatively stable, since most properties are family-owned and tend to stay that way. But not so in Bordeaux, where there are ample opportunities for newcomers to acquire established properties, as they have been doing ...

The word of the wine: Barrel

Unit of measure for the transport and marketing of bulk wines, corresponding to 4 barrels of 225 l, i.e. 900 l.