The Winery Halcyon of El Dorado of California

Winery Halcyon - Alder Springs Cabernet Franc
The winery offers 8 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of California.
It is located in El Dorado in the region of California
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The Winery Halcyon is one of the best wineries to follow in El Dorado.. It offers 8 wines for sale in of El Dorado to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Halcyon wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Halcyon

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Halcyon

How Winery Halcyon wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef bobotie, currywurst or stuffed duck or goose neck.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Halcyon

On the nose the red wine of Winery Halcyon. often reveals types of flavors of oak, spices or black fruit and sometimes also flavors of non oak, earth or red fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Halcyon. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Halcyon

  • 2015With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.80/5

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

  • Cabernet Franc

Discovering the wine region of El Dorado

The wine region of El Dorado is located in the region of El Dorado County of California of United States. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Rombauer Vineyards or the Domaine Withers produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of El Dorado are Mourvèdre, Zinfandel and Cabernet-Sauvignon, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of El Dorado often reveals types of flavors of cherry, pomegranate or cranberry and sometimes also flavors of stone, cinnamon or anise.

In the mouth of El Dorado is a powerful with a lot of tannins present in the mouth. We currently count 86 estates and châteaux in the of El Dorado, producing 342 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of El Dorado go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry.

The top white wines of Winery Halcyon

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Halcyon

How Winery Halcyon wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of piglet shoulder with melting baked apples, beef tagine with vegetables or rabbit with marengo sauce.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Halcyon

  • 2019With an average score of 4.10/5

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

  • Cabernet Franc

Discover the grape variety: Kyoho

Tetraploid variety, of Japanese origin, which would have been obtained in 1939 by Oinoue by crossing the ishinara wase - mutation of campbell early - by the centennial seedless. In Japan, Kyoho is a very important cultivar. It is also found in South Korea, in the Republic of China (Taiwan), in the United States (California), in Chile, in Brazil, in Australia, etc.

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Discover the grape variety: Cornalin du Valais

Very old vine cultivated in the Swiss Valais, resulting from a natural crossing between the petit rouge(*) and the mayolet. It is the father of red humagne, also called cornalin d'Aoste, the grandfather of durize or petit rouge du Valais or rouge de Fully and a relative of goron. - Synonymy: old red of Valais, red of the country in Switzerland, landroter (for all the synonyms of the grape varieties, click here!). - Description: medium-sized bunches, cylindrical, winged, compact, strong medium-sized peduncles with little lignification; medium-sized berries, spherical or short elliptical, skin of a beautiful bluish black colour with a lot of bloom. The foliage turns completely red in the fall. - Production potential: early budding in the year. Capricious and difficult variety. Particularly likes the limestone soils of well exposed hillsides that warm up quickly enough, lean and well drained. Semi-erect bearing, vigorous with irregular production. Resists well to winter frosts. Susceptible to the main diseases, especially to oidium and grey rot. Also susceptible to magnesium deficiency and stalk dehydration. Maturity: 3rd early season

News about Winery Halcyon and wines from the region

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 ...

Gérard Basset Foundation launches wine scholarships for victims of war

The Gérard Basset Foundation has partnered with Artémis Domaines to offer The Golden Vines Victims of Conflict Scholarships. Artémis Domaines is the owner of famed estates Château Latour (Bordeaux), Clos de Tart (Burgundy), Domaine d’Eugénie (Burgundy), Château Grillet (Rhône) and Eisele Vineyard (California). The scholarships will ‘support qualified wine industry professionals who are victims of war and geopolitical conflict’, said the group. Successful scholars will be offered six months of vi ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘2021 has been the year of all the miseries’

How’s the weather been this year? Awful. ‘La nature m’écoeure’, one of my wine-growing friends posted on Facebook on 8 April, having been out to look at the frost-crippled shoots on his vines that morning: ‘Nature disgusts me’. It takes a lot to make a wine-grower feel that. He wasn’t alone. Jeremiads echo around the northern hemisphere as 2021 closes. It’s been the year of all the miseries. None suffered more horribly than the growers of Germany’s Ahr valley, where floodwaters caused by the fou ...

The word of the wine: Decanting

A sommelier uses a decanter to separate the clear wine from the solid parts in a bottle.

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