The Cave Ridge of Virginia

Cave Ridge - Cabernet Sauvignon
The winery offers 22 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 155 of the estates of Virginia.
It is located in Virginia
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The Cave Ridge is one of the best wineries to follow in Virginie.. It offers 22 wines for sale in of Virginia to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Cave Ridge wines

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

The top red wines of Cave Ridge

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Cave Ridge

How Cave Ridge wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of german recipe for marinated meat: sauerbraten, lamb tagine with prunes or pizza with peppers and spicy chicken.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Cave Ridge

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

The best vintages in the red wines of Cave Ridge

  • 2011With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2012With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2010With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Cave Ridge.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Chambourcin
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Petit Verdot
  • Cabernet Franc

Discovering the wine region of Virginia

Virginia is a state on the eastern seaboard of the United States, located immediately South of Maryland and North of the Carolinas. The state covers 42,750 square miles (110,750 km2) of mountains, valleys and the Atlantic coastal Complex that forms its eastern border. From the Cumberland and Blue Ridge Mountains in the west to the coastal creeks and estuaries in the east, Virginia's topography and geology are varied, to say the least. The landscape around the Chesapeake Bay - a vast coastal inlet that separates the main state from its Eastern Shore - could hardly be more different from that below Mt Rogers (1,750m), 480km to the west.

The Shenandoah Valley is the largest AVA in the country. It stretches for 240 km at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the natural boundary that separates Virginia from West Virginia. The Monticello AVA is the oldest, formed in February 1984 and located around Charlottesville in Central Virginia. It has the honor of being the home of Thomas Jefferson, his extensive French wine collection and the state's first winery.

The top sweet wines of Cave Ridge

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Cave Ridge

How Cave Ridge wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of game (deer, venison) or spicy food such as recipes of garbure with duck confit or lamb tagine with prunes and almonds.

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Cave Ridge.

  • Chambourcin

Discover the grape variety: Traminette

Interspecific crossing between 23416 Joannès Seyve (4.825 Bertille Seyve x 7053 Seibel) and the gewurztraminer obtained in 1965 by Herb Barrett of the University of Illinois (United States) and selected by the Experimental Station of Cornell University in Geneva (United States) In this country, it can be found in many wine-producing regions, as well as in Canada and Germany, but it is virtually unknown in France.

The top white wines of Cave Ridge

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Cave Ridge

How Cave Ridge wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of simmered pork cheeks with cream sauce and dijon mustard, quick smoked salmon croque-monsieur or magic cake cheese quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Cave Ridge

On the nose the white wine of Cave Ridge. often reveals types of flavors of tropical fruit.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Cave Ridge.

  • Chardonnay
  • Riesling
  • Traminette
  • Viognier

The word of the wine: Yeast

Micro-organisms at the base of all fermentative processes. A wide variety of yeasts live and thrive naturally in the vineyard, provided that treatments do not destroy them. Unfortunately, their replacement by laboratory-selected yeasts is often the order of the day and contributes to the standardization of the wine. Yeasts are indeed involved in the development of certain aromas.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Cave Ridge

Planning a wine route in the of Virginia? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Cave Ridge.

Discover the grape variety: Viognier

White Viognier is a grape variety that originated in France (Rhone Valley). 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 grapes of small size. White Viognier can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone Valley, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Savoie & Bugey, Provence & Corsica, Loire Valley, Beaujolais.

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The word of the wine: Yeast

Micro-organisms at the base of all fermentative processes. A wide variety of yeasts live and thrive naturally in the vineyard, provided that treatments do not destroy them. Unfortunately, their replacement by laboratory-selected yeasts is often the order of the day and contributes to the standardization of the wine. Yeasts are indeed involved in the development of certain aromas.