The Winery Idle Hour of Central Coast of California

Winery Idle Hour
The winery offers 38 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 4916 of the estates of California.
It is located in Central Coast in the region of California
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The Winery Idle Hour is one of the best wineries to follow in Central Coast.. It offers 38 wines for sale in of Central Coast to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Idle Hour wines

Looking for the best Winery Idle Hour wines in Central Coast among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Idle Hour 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 Idle Hour wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Idle Hour

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Idle Hour

How Winery Idle Hour wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of north welsch, baked whole salmon or mushroom, bacon and gruyere quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Idle Hour

On the nose the white wine of Winery Idle Hour. often reveals types of flavors of earth.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Idle Hour

  • 0With an average score of 3.66/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.60/5

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

  • Chardonnay
  • Malvasia
  • Viognier

Discovering the wine region of Central Coast

Vast Californian coast (450 km) cooled by Pacific fogs. Cradle of great coastal Pinots and Chardonnays: fine silky Pinot Noir (cherry, raspberry, undergrowth) on Sta. Rita Hills, Santa Maria and Santa Lucia Highlands; ample taut Chardonnay, yellow fruit and saline minerality. Also spicy peppery Syrah, structured Cabernet and jammy Zinfandel on Paso Robles.

Sub-AVAs: Paso Robles, Santa Barbara, Monterey. Oceanic climate.

The top red wines of Winery Idle Hour

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Idle Hour

How Winery Idle Hour wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of barbecue burger, blue cord or autumn duck aiguillette.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Idle Hour

On the nose the red wine of Winery Idle Hour. often reveals types of flavors of oak, red fruit.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Idle Hour

  • 2013With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.68/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.50/5

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

  • Cabernet Franc
  • Tempranillo
  • Petit Verdot
  • Tannat
  • Shiraz/Syrah

Discover the grape variety: Petite Sirah

Powerful, intensely coloured reds with an almost black inky hue, firm tannins and a dense palate, with concentrated aromas of black fruits (blackberry, blackcurrant, plum), black cherry, dark chocolate, black pepper, spices, leather and balsamic notes. Fine ageing potential. Confirmed star of great Californian (Napa, Sonoma, Paso Robles) and Australian reds. American synonym for French durif, a hybrid created in 1880 by François Durif (syrah × peloursin).

The top sweet wines of Winery Idle Hour

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Idle Hour

How Winery Idle Hour wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, game (deer, venison) or spicy food such as recipes of boeuf lôc lac (cambodia), rabbit with beer and mustard or couscous chicken and merguez.

Organoleptic analysis of sweet wines of Winery Idle Hour

On the nose the sweet wine of Winery Idle Hour. often reveals types of flavors of black fruit.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Winery Idle Hour

  • 0With an average score of 3.70/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Winery Idle Hour.

  • Petite Sirah

The word of the wine: Green harvest or green harvesting

The practice of removing excess bunches of grapes from certain vines, usually in July, but sometimes later. This is often necessary, but not always a good thing, as the remaining grapes tend to gain weight.

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Discover the grape variety: Petit Verdot

Dark, full-bodied reds with tight tannins and inky colour, showing aromas of blackberry, violet, gentle spice, liquorice and mentholated balsamic notes. Contributes colour, structure and aromatic freshness to great Médoc blends (Palmer, Léoville-Las Cases) where it remains a minority. Also vinified as a single variety in Spain (La Mancha), California, Australia and Argentina. A late-ripening Bordeaux variety.