Frick WineryGrenache
Red wine
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Grenache of Frick Winery in the region of California often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, red fruit or black fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Grenache
Pairings that work perfectly with Grenache
Original food and wine pairings with Grenache
The Grenache of Frick Winery matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of beef marengo "my mom" style or titgazelle's herring and leek pie.
Details and technical informations about Frick Winery's Grenache.
Discover the grape variety: Morio-Muskat
Aromatic, muscat-scented whites to drink young, with a pale golden robe and an ample palate, with intensely muscat signature aromas, white flowers (elderflower), citrus and floral notes despite the absence of Muscat in its genetics. Also as sweet wines. Grown in Germany and Austria for accessible aromatic sweet and medium-dry whites. White variety obtained in 1928 by Peter Morio at Geilweilerhof (silvaner × pinot blanc).
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Grenache from Frick Winery are 2013, 0, 2016
Informations about the Frick Winery
The Frick Winery is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 21 wines for sale in the of Dry Creek Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Dry Creek Valley
Mythical terroir of Californian Zinfandel on pre-Prohibition old vines: intense, spicy reds with aromas of candied blackberry, black plum, pepper and leather, ample structure and melted tannins. Signature Sauvignon Blanc as white king with herbaceous notes and bright citrus, dazzling acidity. Also Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Rhône grapes. Small Sonoma AVA (~9,000 ha, 70+ wineries), warm days and cool evenings ventilated from the coast, ideal ripeness-acidity balance.
The wine region of California
Powerful, sunny reds: dense Napa Cabernet Sauvignon (blackcurrant, chocolate, tobacco, ample tannins), spicy, jammy Zinfandel from the Sierra Foothills, silky red-fruited Pinot Noir on the cool coast (Sonoma, Russian River, Central Coast). Opulent, buttery Chardonnay, notes of yellow fruit and vanilla. Varied climate, from the hot interior to the Pacific-cooled coast. 80% of US production, 139 AVAs including Napa (1st AVA, 1981).
The word of the wine: Chaptalization
The addition of sugar at the time of fermentation of the must, an ancient practice, but theorized by Jean-Antoine Chaptal at the dawn of the 19th century. The sugar is transformed into alcohol and allows the natural degree of the wine to be raised in a weak or cold year, or - more questionably - when the winegrower has a harvest that is too large to obtain good maturity.
