The Island Winery is one of the world's great estates. It offers 14 wines for sale in of South Carolina to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Island Winery wines in South Carolina among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Island Winery 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 Island Winery wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Island Winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .
Southeastern US state (Atlantic coast) with a hot, humid subtropical climate; wine industry dominated by native Muscadine and Scuppernong (Vitis rotundifolia) vines. Muscadine is the signature wine (white/rosé/red): sweet and fruity with intense banana, fresh grape, orange blossom and candy notes. The Upstate near the Blue Ridge grows vinifera: firm Cabernet Sauvignon, supple Merlot, Chardonnay and floral Viognier. Fruit wines also produced.
How Island Winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, game (deer, venison) or spicy food such as recipes of spanish stew (cocido), oven roasted rabbit with mustard or filet mignon with curry.
Sweet and liqueur wines with a highly distinctive foxy, musky character, amber to golden colour, lush palate, showing powerful signature aromas of wild muscat (foxy signature), exotic fruits, flowers and earthy notes. Distinctly southern American identity. Grown in the south-eastern United States (Carolinas, Florida), resistant to phylloxera and disease, used in modern hybridisation programmes. Family of American varieties of the Vitis rotundifolia species.
How Island Winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food such as recipes of caramelized pork ribs, salmon and leek gratin or haddock with curry cream.
Aromas resulting from the fermentation and maturation of the wine before bottling. The aging in barrels modifies considerably the texture and the flavours of the wine.
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Crystalline, taut whites with vibrant acidity and aromas of citrus, green apple, white flowers, vineyard peach and mineral/petrol notes with age. Made as dry (Trocken, Alsace), off-dry (Kabinett, Spätlese) and sweet (Auslese, Beerenauslese, Trockenbeerenauslese, late harvest). Star of the Moselle, Rheingau, Alsace AOC and Wachau. Also exported to Clare Valley and Finger Lakes.
