The Winery Childress Vineyards is one of the world's great estates. It offers 78 wines for sale in of North Carolina to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Childress Vineyards wines in North Carolina among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Childress Vineyards 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 Childress Vineyards wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Childress Vineyards wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of pastasciutta (corsica), veal saltimbocca or magret stuffed with foie gras.
On the nose the red wine of Winery Childress Vineyards. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, red fruit or black fruit.
North Carolina is a state located on the east coast of the United States, between the Appalachian Mountains to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. The state's transitional Climate is well suited to growing grapes for wine production, and the state has a Long and illustrious wine-making history. North Carolina's finest wines are made from Vitis vinifera grapes such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Merlot and Riesling.
However, muscadine grapes (Vitis rotundifolia) are native to the region.
One example is Scuppernong, a (relatively) large member of the muscadine family named after the Scuppernong River that runs through the state. Roanoke Island, on the east coast of North Carolina, is home to a 400-year-old Scuppernong Plant that is believed to be the oldest cultivated Vine in the world.
North Carolina covers about 140,000 square miles of flat coastal plains and rolling hills of the Piedmont ("foot of the hills") region of the eastern United States, named after the Piedmont region of northern Italy.
The climate of North Carolina's hilly regions is well suited to viticulture, with the surrounding mountains providing protection from the northern weather.
How Winery Childress Vineyards wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of the real vegetables stuffed in the provençal way, grilled sea bass with herbs or cream and tuna quiche.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Childress Vineyards. often reveals types of flavors of vegetal, oak or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit, tropical fruit.
Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.
How Winery Childress Vineyards wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of boeuf en daube, pork stew with bacon and cream or civet of wild boar.
Champagne dosed between 0 and 6 grams of sugar (see dosage liqueur).
How Winery Childress Vineyards wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .
On the nose the sweet wine of Winery Childress Vineyards. often reveals types of flavors of black fruit.
Originally from Italy, it is the famous Sangiovese of Tuscany producing the famous wines of Brunello de Montalcino and Chianti. This variety is registered in the Official Catalogue of Wine Grape Varieties, list A1. According to recent genetic analysis, it is the result of a natural cross between the almost unknown Calabrese di Montenuovo (mother) and Ciliegiolo (father).
How Winery Childress Vineyards wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of north welsch, quick salmon skewers or light tuna-tomato quiche (without cream).
A taste considered a defect, characterized by an unpleasant astringency and bitterness, brought by the stalk during the vinification process. In order to avoid it, destemming before vinification is a common practice.
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Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.
