The Winery 868 Estate is one of the best wineries to follow in Virginie.. It offers 28 wines for sale in of Virginia to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery 868 Estate wines in Virginia among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery 868 Estate 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 868 Estate wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery 868 Estate wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of salmon with cream sauce, chicken drumstick with bacon or duck legs with cider and small onions.
On the nose the red wine of Winery 868 Estate. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, red fruit or black fruit.
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 Winery 868 Estate wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of guinea fowl with cabbage, skate wing with shallots or vegan leek and tofu quiche.
On the nose the white wine of Winery 868 Estate. often reveals types of flavors of earth, microbio or oak and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit.
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.
How Winery 868 Estate wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of beef pot-au-feu, sauté of lamb or endives with ham.
In champagne and wines made according to the traditional method, wine is added before corking to fill the void in the bottle created by disgorging. This added wine is often sweetened by sugar incorporated in variable proportions according to the style of wine sought (see dosage). Syn.: liqueur de dosage.
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