The Winery Far Niente of Oakville of California

Winery Far Niente - Cave Collection Chardonnay
The winery offers 9 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.5.
This estate is part of the Far Niente Family of Wines.
It is ranked in the top 27 of the estates of California.
It is located in Oakville in the region of California

The Winery Far Niente is one of the world's great estates. It offers 9 wines for sale in of Oakville to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Far Niente wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Far Niente

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Far Niente

How Winery Far Niente wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of stuffed tomatoes, sea bream with white wine or quiche without pastry, courgette and blue cheese.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Far Niente

On the nose the white wine of Winery Far Niente. often reveals types of flavors of butterscotch, starfruit or chalk and sometimes also flavors of straw, cedar or lemon zest. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Far Niente. is a powerful.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Far Niente

  • 2004With an average score of 4.60/5
  • 2003With an average score of 4.50/5
  • 2012With an average score of 4.42/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 1997With an average score of 4.40/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Far Niente.

  • Chardonnay

Discovering the wine region of Oakville

The wine region of Oakville is located in the region of Napa Valley of California of United States. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Schrader or the Domaine Schrader produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Oakville are Cabernet-Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet franc, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Oakville often reveals types of flavors of cherry, dried herbs or cigar and sometimes also flavors of bell pepper, green bell pepper or baking spice.

In the mouth of Oakville is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 251 estates and châteaux in the of Oakville, producing 498 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Oakville go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison).

The top red wines of Winery Far Niente

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Far Niente

How Winery Far Niente wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of bernard's potée, pastillas with lamb and apricots or ramen (noodle) soup.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Far Niente

On the nose the red wine of Winery Far Niente. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, red fruit or black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Far Niente. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Far Niente

  • 2016With an average score of 4.60/5
  • 2002With an average score of 4.60/5
  • 1989With an average score of 4.60/5
  • 2004With an average score of 4.60/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.60/5
  • 2013With an average score of 4.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Far Niente.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Pinot Noir

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Far Niente

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

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Pinot noir is an important red grape variety in Burgundy and Champagne, and its reputation is well known! Great wines such as the Domaine de la Romanée Conti elaborate their wines from this famous grape variety, and make it a great variety. When properly vinified, pinot noit produces red wines of great finesse, with a wide range of aromas depending on its advancement (fruit, undergrowth, leather). it is also the only red grape variety authorized in Alsace. Pinot Noir is not easily cultivated beyond our borders, although it has enjoyed some success in Oregon, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

News about Winery Far Niente and wines from the region

Napa ‘library’ auction has rare Screaming Eagle and Harlan magnums

Screaming Eagle, Harlan Estate, Mayacamas and Spottswoode are among the major names featured in the Napa Valley Library Wine Auction via Sotheby’s. More than 50 lots have been assembled for the sale, which began online this week and will culminate in a live auction on 5 February in New York. Organised in partnership with trade body Napa Valley Vintners, the auction includes vintages back to 1978 and wines have been sourced direct from winery cellars. One rare lot involves a magnum of each of Scr ...

LVMH buys Napa Valley’s Joseph Phelps Vineyards

Philippe Schaus, chairman and chief executive of the Moët Hennessy division of LVMH, called Joseph Phelps Vineyards ‘an iconic name and an iconic winery’. Joseph Phelps founded his eponymous winery on a 260ha former cattle ranch in Napa Valley in 1973. He turned it into one of California’s most prominent producers, famed for its flagship Insignia – a Bordeaux-style blend – and its pioneering use of Rhône varieties, which kick-started the ‘Rhône Rangers’ movement in the Golden State. The founder’ ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘2021 has been the year of all the miseries’

How’s the weather been this year? Awful. ‘La nature m’écoeure’, one of my wine-growing friends posted on Facebook on 8 April, having been out to look at the frost-crippled shoots on his vines that morning: ‘Nature disgusts me’. It takes a lot to make a wine-grower feel that. He wasn’t alone. Jeremiads echo around the northern hemisphere as 2021 closes. It’s been the year of all the miseries. None suffered more horribly than the growers of Germany’s Ahr valley, where floodwaters caused by the fou ...

The word of the wine: Sabrer (champagne)

A cavalier and folkloric way of opening a bottle of champagne by breaking the neck with a sharp blow given with the top of the blade of a sabre.