The Favalora Vineyards Winery of Contra Costa County of California

Favalora Vineyards Winery - Del Barba Vineyards Carignane
The winery offers 4 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.1.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of California.
It is located in Contra Costa County in the region of California
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The Favalora Vineyards Winery is one of the best wineries to follow in Contra Costa County.. It offers 4 wines for sale in of Contra Costa County to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Favalora Vineyards Winery wines

Looking for the best Favalora Vineyards Winery wines in Contra Costa County among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Favalora Vineyards Winery 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 Favalora Vineyards Winery wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Favalora Vineyards Winery

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Favalora Vineyards Winery

How Favalora Vineyards Winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, spicy food or pork such as recipes of spanish stew (cocido), garlic shrimp or stuffed mushrooms.

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Favalora Vineyards Winery.

  • Carignan
  • Barbera

Discovering the wine region of Contra Costa County

The wine region of Contra Costa County is located in the region of San Francisco Bay of California of United States. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Turley or the Domaine Turley produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Contra Costa County are Zinfandel, Mourvèdre and Cabernet-Sauvignon, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Contra Costa County often reveals types of flavors of black fruit, sweet tobacco or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, microbio or fennel.

In the mouth of Contra Costa County is a powerful. We currently count 73 estates and châteaux in the of Contra Costa County, producing 181 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Contra Costa County go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry.

The top sweet wines of Favalora Vineyards Winery

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Favalora Vineyards Winery

How Favalora Vineyards Winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or goat cheese such as recipes of small stuffed fish from nice, lamb mice confit and melting carrots or eggplant gratin with goat cheese and basil.

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Favalora Vineyards Winery.

  • Zinfandel

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.

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Discover the grape variety: Carignan

Mainly cultivated in the Languedoc region, carignan originates from Spain. Because of its very resistant branches, it is often called hardwood. Its bunches are quite large. They are compact and winged with a lignified stalk. The berries are spherical in shape and take on a bluish-black colour. Carignan has a total of 25 approved clones, the best known of which are 274, 65 and 9. The carignan buds at the beginning of June and is protected from spring frosts. It does not reach maturity until the third period. Also, this grape variety needs warmth and sunshine. It appreciates dry and not very fertile soils. Carignan vines can live for more than 100 years. Those that are more than 30 years old produce a better wine. This wine is well coloured. It is generous and powerful at the same time. Pepper, cherry, blackberry, banana, raspberry, almond, prune and violet are some of the aromas that this grape variety gives off.

News about Favalora Vineyards Winery and wines from the region

Warmer climate to boost UK wine production, says study

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Ukrainian wine, hanging in the balance

Since February 24th 2022 the world has quickly learned a great deal more about Europe’s second-largest country, Ukraine. Most notably will be our profound admiration for the Ukrainians’ continued resistance to the invading Russian Army. This is but one item on a long list that includes such things as Ukraine being one of the world’s top exporters of wheat, barley and sunflower seeds. However, many people are also now learning that Ukraine not only has a thriving winemaking sect ...

Californian Pinot Noir pioneer Josh Jensen passes away

Josh Jensen was famed for producing elegant, silky Pinot Noirs at Calera Wine Company on the Central Coast.  Leading wine critic Robert Parker Jr once described Calera – the company that Jensen founded in 1971 – as ‘California’s Romanée-Conti.’ Jensen completed undergraduate studies at Yale, but his love of fine wine blossomed while completing an MA in social anthropology at Oxford University in the UK. He was a key member of the rowing crew at both universities, but he still found time to devel ...

The word of the wine: Maccabeo

See macabeu.

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