The Winery Gagnon of Santa Cruz County of California

Winery Gagnon - Single Vineyard Petite Sirah
The winery offers 13 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.1.
It is ranked in the top 76 of the estates of California.
It is located in Santa Cruz County in the region of California

The Winery Gagnon is one of the world's great estates. It offers 13 wines for sale in of Santa Cruz County to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Gagnon wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Gagnon

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Gagnon

How Winery Gagnon wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of shepherd's pie (potatoes, beef, carrots, bacon), lamb marinated in white wine or duck casserole with turnips.

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

  • Petite Sirah
  • Cabernet Sauvignon

Discovering the wine region of Santa Cruz County

The wine region of Santa Cruz County is located in the region of Central Coast of California of United States. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Neely or the Domaine Neely produce mainly wines red, white and sparkling. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Santa Cruz County are Pinot noir, Chardonnay and Cabernet-Sauvignon, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Santa Cruz County often reveals types of flavors of earth, oak or spices and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, non oak or black fruit.

In the mouth of Santa Cruz County is a powerful with a nice freshness. We currently count 20 estates and châteaux in the of Santa Cruz County, producing 25 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Santa Cruz County go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Gagnon

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

Discover the grape variety: Rousseli

Most certainly Provençal and more particularly, as its name indicates, from the Var department. It is in the process of disappearing because it is practically no longer multiplied in nurseries, although it is registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A. It is probably a descendant of the white gouais and the black ouliven, to be continued! Rousseli is practically unknown in other wine-producing countries, in France it was used both as a table grape and as a wine grape.

News about Winery Gagnon and wines from the region

The Duckhorn Portfolio purchases 107ha vineyard in Paso Robles

The luxury wine group bought Bottom Line Ranch in the San Miguel District for an undisclosed sum. It is exclusively planted with Cabernet, featuring seven top clones on three drought-tolerant rootstocks. Alex Ryan, chief executive and president of The Duckhorn Portfolio, said the sub-appellation’s climate is ideal for producing world-class Cabernet Sauvignon. ‘There is a reason why Paso Robles has the most Cabernet Sauvignon acreage of any appellation in California outside of Napa Valley,’ added ...

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 ...

Meet Decanter’s US team

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The word of the wine: Herbaceous

Vegetable odour reminiscent of freshly cut grass and considered a defect of the wine.