The Winery Eppalock Ridge of Central Victoria of Victoria

Winery Eppalock Ridge - Heathcote Shiraz
The winery offers 4 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 256 of the estates of Victoria.
It is located in Central Victoria in the region of Victoria

The Winery Eppalock Ridge is one of the best wineries to follow in Central Victoria.. It offers 4 wines for sale in of Central Victoria to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Eppalock Ridge wines

Looking for the best Winery Eppalock Ridge wines in Central Victoria among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Eppalock Ridge 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 Eppalock Ridge wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Eppalock Ridge

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Eppalock Ridge

How Winery Eppalock Ridge wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of pot roast, kapama of lamb (traditional bosnian dish) or rabbit with marengo sauce.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Eppalock Ridge

On the nose the red wine of Winery Eppalock Ridge. often reveals types of flavors of earth, oak or spices and sometimes also flavors of black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Eppalock Ridge. is a powerful.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Eppalock Ridge

  • 2013With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.30/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Eppalock Ridge.

  • Shiraz/Syrah

Discovering the wine region of Central Victoria

CentralVictoria">Victoria, as the name suggests, occupies the middle portion of the state's wine map. It is the most diverse of all Victorian wine zones in terms of the number of wine styles it is capable of producing. Geographically speaking, Central Victoria is a relatively small zone in comparison to its neighbours, in Particular Big Rivers to the North. However the variable landscapes ranging from vast plains to moderately elevated terrains, Dense forests and the slopes of mountain ranges are attributed to the versatility of wine found here.

Unsurprisingly, some of the most recognizable names of the Australian wine industry have their vineyards in Central Victoria. The zone is comprised of several regions and subregions. The large expanse of Goulburn Valley and Bendigo in the flatter northern part of the zone (on the border of NewSouthWales) have a warmer, drier Climate that is conducive to Rich, Heavy styles of wine. Here, Shiraz is king, with Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay providing other options for winegrowers.

The Strathbogie Ranges and Upper Goulburn areas are cooler due to their position among the mountains of the Great Dividing Range, and excel in more aromatic varieties like Riesling and Pinot Noir. Heathcote, on the western edge of the zone, is cooler thanks to the influence of the Mount Camel Range. These topographical variations mean particular grape varieties are suited to specific locations, as suggested by their GIs (Geographical Indications).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Eppalock Ridge

Planning a wine route in the of Central Victoria? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Eppalock Ridge.

Discover the grape variety: Négret pounjut

An ancient grape variety endemic to the Fronton region in the Haute Garonne that could also be found in La Ville Dieu du Temple in the Lot et Garonne. Today, it is not very present in the vineyard and is on the verge of extinction. It is, however, registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A. It should not be confused with Négret de Banhars, Négret Castrais or Négret de la Canourgue, and it should be noted that it is related to Prunelard. Négret pounjut is completely unknown in other wine-producing countries.

News about Winery Eppalock Ridge and wines from the region

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

Hitting the right note

Last year, there was much mirth on wine Twitter about a particularly excruciating tasting note. You’re right. The wine trade needs to get out more. But still… this one was a beauty. It began well enough – really quite beautiful, in fact. But before long the imaginative descriptions were getting more ornate and strained. It moved from poetic to meaningless before finishing with a reference to Burnt Norton – the first of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets – that put it firmly in Private Eye magazine’s ...

Hitting the right note

Last year, there was much mirth on wine Twitter about a particularly excruciating tasting note. You’re right. The wine trade needs to get out more. But still… this one was a beauty. It began well enough – really quite beautiful, in fact. But before long the imaginative descriptions were getting more ornate and strained. It moved from poetic to meaningless before finishing with a reference to Burnt Norton – the first of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets – that put it firmly in Private Eye magazine’s ...

The word of the wine: Sweet

Generic term for wines containing residual sugar (natural sugars in the grapes that have not been transformed into alcohol). It is also used to describe a wine with a dominantly sweet flavour, without further explanation.