The Chateau O’Brien is one of the world's great estates. It offers 22 wines for sale in of Virginia to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Chateau O’Brien wines in Virginia among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Chateau O’Brien 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 Chateau O’Brien wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Chateau O’Brien wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef stew with white wine, pumpkin and bacon pie or my mother's rabbit.
On the nose the red wine of Chateau O’Brien. often reveals types of flavors of spices, red fruit or earth and sometimes also flavors of oak, black fruit or non oak.
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.
How Chateau O’Brien wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef such as recipes of beef with mustard.
On the nose the pink wine of Chateau O’Brien. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, red fruit.
Petit Verdot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (southwest). 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. Petit Verdot noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Armagnac.
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Tannat is a red grape variety from Béarn which belongs to the cotoïdes family. Present in several vineyards of France, it occupies nearly 3,000 ha. Its leaves are reddish with tan patches. Its bunches are either of normal size or larger. Its berries have a thin skin and are rounded. Its foliage has a swarthy appearance. This variety must be pruned long because it is vigorous. It likes sandy and gravelly soils. Tannat is often exposed to leafhoppers and mites. It is also somewhat susceptible to grey rot. It has 11 approved clones, including 474, 717 and 794. Once mature, this variety produces acidic, fruity, tannic, acidic and full-bodied wines. Various aromas emerge, notably tobacco, cinnamon and exotic wood. Tannat is rarely used alone. It is combined with iron-servadou to obtain a fruitier taste or with cabernet sauvignon to be more rounded.
