The Winery Bella Union of Rutherford of California

Winery Bella Union - Cabernet Sauvignon
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.4.
This estate is part of the Far Niente Family of Wines.
It is ranked in the top 52 of the estates of California.
It is located in Rutherford in the region of California

The Winery Bella Union is one of the world's great estates. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Rutherford to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Bella Union wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Bella Union

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Bella Union

How Winery Bella Union wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of autumn beef bourguignon, couscous merguez or rabbit with mustard in foil.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Bella Union

On the nose the red wine of Winery Bella Union. often reveals types of flavors of cream, non oak or caramel and sometimes also flavors of prune, cinnamon or cheese. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Bella Union. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Bella Union

  • 2014With an average score of 4.41/5
  • 2016With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2012With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2019With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.39/5

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon

Discovering the wine region of Rutherford

The wine region of Rutherford is located in the region of Napa Valley of California of United States. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Frank Family or the Domaine Scarecrow produce mainly wines red, white and sweet. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Rutherford are Cabernet-Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet franc, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Rutherford often reveals types of flavors of cherry, menthol or green apple and sometimes also flavors of peach, citrus or tropical.

In the mouth of Rutherford is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 268 estates and châteaux in the of Rutherford, producing 544 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Rutherford go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison).

The top white wines of Winery Bella Union

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Bella Union

How Winery Bella Union wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or goat cheese such as recipes of pasta with shrimp, quiche lorraine or lasagne with 5 cheeses.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Bella Union

On the nose the white wine of Winery Bella Union. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit or tropical fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Bella Union. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Bella Union

  • 2019With an average score of 4.20/5

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

  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discover the grape variety: Villard noir

An interspecific cross between Chancellor - 7053 Seibel - and 6905 Seibel or Subéreux, obtained by the Seyve-Villard company, formerly located in Saint Vallier in the Drôme. As with the white Villard - 12375 Seyve-Villard - these were the two most widely planted direct-producer hybrids. Today, Villard noir is on the verge of extinction, although it is listed in the Official Catalogue of Wine Grape Varieties, list A1.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Bella Union

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

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon

Sauvignon Gris is a grape variety that originated in France (South-West). 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. Sauvignon Gris can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Burgundy, Jura, Beaujolais, Armagnac, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey.

News about Winery Bella Union and wines from the region

LVMH buys Napa Valley’s Joseph Phelps Vineyards

Philippe Schaus, chairman and chief executive of the Moët Hennessy division of LVMH, called Joseph Phelps Vineyards ‘an iconic name and an iconic winery’. Joseph Phelps founded his eponymous winery on a 260ha former cattle ranch in Napa Valley in 1973. He turned it into one of California’s most prominent producers, famed for its flagship Insignia – a Bordeaux-style blend – and its pioneering use of Rhône varieties, which kick-started the ‘Rhône Rangers’ movement in the Golden State. The founder’ ...

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘2021 has been the year of all the miseries’

How’s the weather been this year? Awful. ‘La nature m’écoeure’, one of my wine-growing friends posted on Facebook on 8 April, having been out to look at the frost-crippled shoots on his vines that morning: ‘Nature disgusts me’. It takes a lot to make a wine-grower feel that. He wasn’t alone. Jeremiads echo around the northern hemisphere as 2021 closes. It’s been the year of all the miseries. None suffered more horribly than the growers of Germany’s Ahr valley, where floodwaters caused by the fou ...

The word of the wine: Velouté

Said of a wine that is soft and caressing in the mouth.