The Winery Great Shoals of Maryland

Winery Great Shoals - Bay Fire
The winery offers 23 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 98 of the estates of Maryland.
It is located in Maryland
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The Winery Great Shoals is one of the world's great estates. It offers 23 wines for sale in of Maryland to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Great Shoals wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Great Shoals

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Great Shoals

How Winery Great Shoals wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of spit-turned boar leg (oven) with "automatic watering"., cassoulet or potjevlesch (northern france).

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

  • Cabernet Franc
  • Chambourcin

Discovering the wine region of Maryland

Maryland is an American state on the eastern seaboard, located between Virginia to the South and Pennsylvania to the North. It covers 32,000 km², from the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains to the coastal plains of the eastern Part of the state. The Chesapeake Bay, a large inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, dominates Maryland's coastline, almost splitting the state in two. The range of grapes grown in Maryland is remarkably diverse - the result not only of the diverse Climate, but also of 350 years of experimentation by the state's winemakers.

Well-known vinifera grapes perform well here, with Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc as prime examples. Barbera has also made it from Piedmont in northwestern Italy to Piedmont in Maryland; it thrives in the Warmer regions alongside its warm climate partners, Sangiovese and Viognier. Seyval Blanc and Chambourcin hybrids are also grown. Maryland now has over 250 acres of vineyards and over 75 small wineries.

The top white wines of Winery Great Shoals

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Great Shoals

How Winery Great Shoals wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Great Shoals.

  • Traminette

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 Great Shoals

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

Discover the grape variety: Chambourcin

Chambourcin noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Rhône-Alpes valley). It is a variety resulting from a cross of the same species (interspecific hybridization). 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 large bunches of grapes of medium size. Chambourcin noir can be found in several vineyards: Rhone Valley, Loire Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Languedoc & Roussillon, Armagnac, Provence & Corsica.

News about Winery Great Shoals and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Passerillage

Concentration of the grape by drying out, under the influence of wind or sun, as opposed to botrytisation, which is the concentration obtained by the development of the "noble rot" for which Botrytis cinerea is responsible. The word is mainly used for sweet wines.