The Winery Belle Meade of Tennessee

Winery Belle Meade
The winery offers 16 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 6 of the estates of Tennessee.
It is located in Tennessee
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The Winery Belle Meade is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 16 wines for sale in of Tennessee to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Belle Meade wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Belle Meade

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Belle Meade

How Winery Belle Meade wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or goat cheese such as recipes of roast beef with garlic, shoulder of lamb on a bed of potatoes or leek, goat cheese and bacon quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Belle Meade

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

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Belle Meade

  • 2014With an average score of 4.60/5
  • 2008With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.94/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.90/5

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

  • Merlot
  • Zinfandel
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Concord
  • Muscadine

Discovering the wine region of Tennessee

Tennessee is a state located in the south-central United States, between the Mississippi River and the Appalachian mountain range. The state has a fairly Long history of winemaking, which began with European settlers in the 1800s and peaked at the turn of the century, but its wine industry is overshadowed by its whiskey production. The state is the home of Tennessee whiskey, a regional style of Bourbon that requires charcoal filtering, a common practice not required for other American whiskies. It was the abundance of oak trees for barrels that initiated the state's thriving whiskey industry.

This, combined with ideal geography, allowed access to waterways for distillation and historic distribution methods. The exact definition of Tennessee Whiskey has been the source of some confusion and disagreement. Unfortunately, the Prohibition era of the 1920s resulted in distilleries closing and vineyards being torn down in favor of tobacco crops, a situation from which Tennessee did not recover as quickly as its neighbor, Kentucky. The production of whisky was introduced in Tennessee in the 18th century by Scottish and Irish immigrants coming from Pennsylvania and Virginia.

The top white wines of Winery Belle Meade

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Belle Meade

How Winery Belle Meade wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food such as recipes of chicken ballotine with ham and mushrooms, sliced tuna with tomato sauce or royal couscous (lamb, chicken, merguez).

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Belle Meade

On the nose the white wine of Winery Belle Meade. often reveals types of flavors of microbio, tree fruit or citrus fruit and sometimes also flavors of oak.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Belle Meade

  • 2018With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.84/5

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

  • Vidal
  • Riesling
  • Chardonnay
  • Chenin Blanc

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.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Belle Meade

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Belle Meade

How Winery Belle Meade wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, lean fish or fruity desserts such as recipes of chicken chop suey, baked cod à la provençale or rice with milk.

Organoleptic analysis of sparkling wines of Winery Belle Meade

On the nose the sparkling wine of Winery Belle Meade. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit.

The best vintages in the sparkling wines of Winery Belle Meade

  • 0With an average score of 4.30/5

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery Belle Meade.

  • Chenin Blanc

The word of the wine: Mouth

The mouth is the third stage of wine tasting after the eye and nose. In the mouth, the taster identifies the aromas through the retronasal route, the flavours and the texture. It is in the mouth that the overall balance of the wine is apprehended.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Belle Meade

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

Discover the grape variety: Chenin blanc

It most certainly originates from the Anjou region and is registered in the official catalogue of wine grape varieties on the A1 list. It can also be found in South Africa, Australia, Argentina, Chile, the United States (California), New Zealand, etc. It is said to be a descendant of Savagnin and to have sauvignonasse as its second parent (Jean-Michel Boursiquot 2019). On the other hand, Chenin blanc is the half-brother of verdelho and sauvignon blanc and is the father of colombard.