The Winery El Capitan of Santa Barbara County of California

Winery El Capitan - Malbec
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of California.
It is located in Santa Barbara County in the region of California

The Winery El Capitan is one of the best wineries to follow in Santa Barbara County.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Santa Barbara County to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery El Capitan wines

Looking for the best Winery El Capitan wines in Santa Barbara County among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery El Capitan 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 El Capitan wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery El Capitan

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery El Capitan

How Winery El Capitan wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry such as recipes of beef pot-au-feu, lamb delight with tomato and cinnamon or grandma's chicken casserole.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery El Capitan

  • 2015With an average score of 4.00/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery El Capitan.

  • Malbec

Discovering the wine region of Santa Barbara County

The wine region of Santa Barbara County is located in the region of Central Coast of California of United States. We currently count 443 estates and châteaux in the of Santa Barbara County, producing 1259 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Santa Barbara County go well with generally quite well with dishes .

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery El Capitan

Planning a wine route in the of Santa Barbara County? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery El Capitan.

Discover the grape variety: Malbec

Malbec, a high-yielding red grape variety, produces tannic and colourful wines. It is produced in different wine-growing regions and changes its name according to the grape variety. Called Auxerrois in Cahors, Malbec in Bordeaux, it is also known as Côt. 6,000 hectares of the Malbec grape are grown in France (in decline since the 1950s). Malbec is also very successful in Argentina. The country has become the world's leading producer of Malbec and offers wines with great potential.

News about Winery El Capitan and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Arching

A stage in the vegetative cycle of the vine that occurs after the leaves have fallen and is characterized by the drying out of the soft shoots, which are transformed into hard shoots by lignification.