The Winery Balistreri of Colorado

Winery Balistreri
The winery offers 35 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 27 of the estates of Colorado.
It is located in Colorado

The Winery Balistreri is one of the world's great estates. It offers 35 wines for sale in of Colorado to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Balistreri wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Balistreri

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Balistreri

How Winery Balistreri wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of shoulder of suckling lamb confit with herbs, oriental lamb skewers or chicken pie.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Balistreri

On the nose the red wine of Winery Balistreri. often reveals types of flavors of earth, red fruit or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, black fruit or non oak.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Balistreri

  • 2009With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2016With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.98/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.85/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.82/5

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Carignan
  • Grenache

Discovering the wine region of Colorado

Colorado is a state in the western United States, bordered by NewMexico to the South and Wyoming to the North. Colorado's vineyards are among the highest in the world, reaching altitudes of 2135 m in the Rocky Mountains. They rival even the famous Andean vineyards of Argentina. Grapes grown at this altitude produce wine with vibrant, intense colors and aromas created by the intense sunlight and cool nights.

Colorado's best wines are made from grape varieties such as Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Riesling and Chardonnay. The state covers just under 270,000 square miles of land between latitudes 37°N and 41°N, from the Rockies to the eastern lowlands. Colorado's Climate is typically continental; the nearest large bodies of water are more than 500 miles away. This results in hot, Dry summers and cold winters, especially in the higher elevations.

The top white wines of Winery Balistreri

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Balistreri

How Winery Balistreri wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of alsatian sauerkraut, salmon and goat cheese quiche or quiche lorraine.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Balistreri

  • 0With an average score of 3.60/5

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

  • Chardonnay
  • Orange Muscat
  • Riesling

Discover the grape variety: Touriga nacional

Most certainly Portuguese, not to be confused with the Touriga Franca also of the same origin. In Portugal, where it is widely cultivated, it is used to produce, among other things, the famous red Porto. It is also found in Uzbekistan, Australia, South Africa, Cyprus, Spain, etc... very little known in France, although it is listed in the Official Catalogue of A1 vines.

The top sweet wines of Winery Balistreri

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Balistreri

How Winery Balistreri wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or goat cheese such as recipes of navarin of lamb, lamb tagine with broad beans or light goat cheese and crab tart.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Winery Balistreri

  • 0With an average score of 4.10/5

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

  • Zinfandel

The word of the wine: Spicy

Said of a wine whose taste and aromas are reminiscent of spices.

The top natural sweet wines of Winery Balistreri

Food and wine pairings with a natural sweet wine of Winery Balistreri

How Winery Balistreri wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of fast and, milk-fed lamb sautéed with saffron and lemon or irish tartiflette.

The best vintages in the natural sweet wines of Winery Balistreri

  • 0With an average score of 3.40/5

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

  • Tinto Cao
  • Zinfandel
  • Touriga Nacional

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 Balistreri

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

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.