The Winery Granite Heights of Virginia

Winery Granite Heights
The winery offers 12 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 335 of the estates of Virginia.
It is located in Virginia
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The Winery Granite Heights is one of the best wineries to follow in Virginie.. It offers 12 wines for sale in of Virginia to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Granite Heights wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Granite Heights

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Granite Heights

How Winery Granite Heights wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of alsatian bäckeoffe, pork chops with mustard or blood duck (tour d'argent).

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Granite Heights

On the nose the red wine of Winery Granite Heights. often reveals types of flavors of oak.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Granite Heights

  • 2012With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.60/5

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

  • Cabernet Franc
  • Cabernet Sauvignon

Discovering the wine region of Virginia

Virginia is a state on the eastern seaboard of the United States, located immediately South of Maryland and North of the Carolinas. The state covers 42,750 square miles (110,750 km2) of mountains, valleys and the Atlantic coastal Complex that forms its eastern border. From the Cumberland and Blue Ridge Mountains in the west to the coastal creeks and estuaries in the east, Virginia's topography and geology are varied, to say the least. The landscape around the Chesapeake Bay - a vast coastal inlet that separates the main state from its Eastern Shore - could hardly be more different from that below Mt Rogers (1,750m), 480km to the west.

The Shenandoah Valley is the largest AVA in the country. It stretches for 240 km at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the natural boundary that separates Virginia from West Virginia. The Monticello AVA is the oldest, formed in February 1984 and located around Charlottesville in Central Virginia. It has the honor of being the home of Thomas Jefferson, his extensive French wine collection and the state's first winery.

The top white wines of Winery Granite Heights

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Granite Heights

How Winery Granite Heights wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of the tartiflette wrap, parillade of fish and seafood or nanie's diced ham quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Granite Heights

On the nose the white wine of Winery Granite Heights. often reveals types of flavors of citrus fruit, tree fruit or tropical fruit.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Granite Heights.

  • Chardonnay
  • Petit Manseng

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Granite Heights

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

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.

News about Winery Granite Heights and wines from the region

Champagne harvest 2022: top quality forecast as picking begins

The Champagne 2022 harvest has begun and picking start dates have been set for the majority of villages, the Comité Champagne has announced. Individual harvest start dates are set for each village and grape variety in the entire Champagne region. This year, dates range between 20 August (Montgueux in the Côte des Blancs) and 6 September (Dormans Soilly in the Vallée de la Marne). The Réseau Matu, a network of hundreds of vineyard control plots, is used to observe the ripening of grapes across th ...

English and Welsh wine sales soar thanks to surging direct-to-consumer channel

The latest survey from trade body WineGB shows that sales of English and Welsh wines have now increased by 69% between 2019 and 2021. The star performer is the direct-to-consumer sector, which is up by 265% over two years. It now represents 57% of all sales, up from just 36% in 2019. That means English and Welsh wine producers are increasingly cutting out the middlemen – supermarkets, specialist merchants, bars and restaurants – and selling directly to their devotees, either via their ecommerce ...

Château Lafon-Rochet appoints Christophe Congé as MD

Having joined Domaine Barons de Rothschild in 1999, Congé has since held the role of oenologist and wine operations manager across Château Lafite Rothschild and Château Duhart Milon for over 22 years. He has now been appointed MD of  Saint-Estèphe fourth growth Château Lafon-Rochet. He takes on his new role with immediate effect. Congé will work closely with Emmanuel Cruse, director of Vignobles Cruse-Lorenzetti, which acquired Château Lafon-Rochet from the Tesseron family last year. The appoint ...

The word of the wine: Carpentry

A powerful red wine with a dense, rich body and a tight tannic structure.