The Winery Route 99 of California

Winery Route 99
Only one wine is currently referenced in this domain
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.4.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of California.
It is located in California

The Winery Route 99 is one of the best wineries to follow in Californie.. It offers 1 wines for sale in of California to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Route 99 wines

Looking for the best Winery Route 99 wines in California among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Route 99 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 Route 99 wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Route 99

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Route 99

How Winery Route 99 wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or veal such as recipes of beef with balsamic sauce, braised lamb with peppers or sauté of veal with olives (corsica).

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Route 99

  • 2014With an average score of 3.40/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Route 99.

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Malbec
  • Zinfandel
  • Petite Sirah
  • Petit Verdot

Discovering the wine region of California

California is the largest and most important wine region in the United States. It represents the southern two-thirds (850 miles or 1,370 kilometers) of the country's west coast. (Oregon and Washington make up the rest. ) The state also spans nearly 10 degrees of latitude.

With its mountains, valleys, plains and plateaus, California's topography is as Complex as its Climate, offering winemakers a bewildering array of terroirs. California wines have only gained worldwide recognition in recent decades (especially after the 1976 Paris ruling). However, the state's wine history goes back more than 200 years. European vines were first planted in the 18th century, when settlers and missionaries moved up and down the West Coast.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Route 99

Planning a wine route in the of California? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Route 99.

Discover the grape variety: Zinfandel

From Croatia where it is called crljenak kastelanski or pribidrag. According to genetic analyses carried out by Professor Carole Meredith of California University in Davis (United States), it is related to the Croatian plavac mali and Zinfandel. It is also found in South Africa, New Zealand, Chile, Brazil, Germany, Bulgaria, Albania, Italy under the name of Primitivo, Malta, Greece, Portugal and to some extent in Croatia. In the United States (California), it is one of the most widely planted grape varieties, having been introduced in the 1830s well before Primitivo. In France, it is registered in the official catalogue of vine varieties on the A1 list under the name Primitivo.

News about Winery Route 99 and wines from the region

Andrew Jefford: ‘Rosé, for the time being, is a pretty babble’

Many wine styles can seem perplexing at first: imagine the first bottle of Barolo if you only know Barossa Shiraz, or the first bottle of Jura Savagnin if you were brought up on California Chardonnay. With time, thought and repeated tasting, though, comes understanding. You learn each wine’s syntax and lexicon, its hints and inferences. You grasp the ways in which each style communicates. Its beauty dawns, then grows. Rosé wine sales grew 23% worldwide between 2002 and 2019. Its fuel has come fr ...

Decanter guide to picnicking for wine lovers

According to lifestyle and happiness guru Gretchen Rubin, you ‘bring your own weather to a picnic’. Ms Rubin, I’d suggest, has never shivered under a tree watching raindrops turn her fish-paste sandwich to mush because the weather forecast was wrong. There are, it’s safe to say, picnics and Picnics. It’s a term that takes in everything from a rubber baguette in a French ‘Aire’ off the Autoroute du Soleil to a four-course spread while listening to opera at Glyndebourne. What’s definitely true is ...

Chile harvest report 2022: ‘a challenging year in terms of climate’ 

Just over 6,400km in length, Chile is a country with a fascinating range of terroirs. This is fully reflected in the diversity of its wines. Heavily influenced by air currents from the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Andes to the east, all of Chile’s wine producing valleys have their own microclimates, as well as distinct complex soil composition. This variety means that individual vineyards experienced the harvest conditions of 2022 in different ways. It was a year that saw the continuation o ...

The word of the wine: Character

Said of a typical wine that stands out for its originality. Used in the plural, it refers to all the organoleptic components of a wine (flavours and tactile sensations).