The La Honda Winery of Santa Cruz Mountains of California

La Honda Winery
The winery offers 23 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 33 of the estates of California.
It is located in Santa Cruz Mountains in the region of California
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The La Honda Winery is one of the world's great estates. It offers 23 wines for sale in of Santa Cruz Mountains to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top La Honda Winery wines

Looking for the best La Honda Winery wines in Santa Cruz Mountains among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent La Honda 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 La Honda Winery wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of La Honda Winery

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of La Honda Winery

How La Honda Winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of tartiflette (from a real savoyard), baeckeoffe with fish or summer tuna quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of La Honda Winery

On the nose the white wine of La Honda Winery. often reveals types of flavors of microbio, oak or tree fruit. In the mouth the white wine of La Honda Winery. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of La Honda Winery

  • 0With an average score of 3.62/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.50/5

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

  • Chardonnay
  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discovering the wine region of Santa Cruz Mountains

The wine region of Santa Cruz Mountains is located in the region of San Francisco Bay of California of United States. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Ridge Vineyards or the Kathryn Kennedy Winery produce mainly wines red and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Santa Cruz Mountains are Cabernet-Sauvignon, Pinot noir and Chardonnay, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Santa Cruz Mountains often reveals types of flavors of cream, pencil shavings or black fruit and sometimes also flavors of charcoal, black truffle or blackberry jam.

In the mouth of Santa Cruz Mountains is a powerful with a nice freshness. We currently count 146 estates and châteaux in the of Santa Cruz Mountains, producing 486 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Santa Cruz Mountains go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison).

The top red wines of La Honda Winery

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of La Honda Winery

How La Honda Winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or veal such as recipes of greek moussaka, rice with paprika and merguez or pork tenderloin with onions.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of La Honda Winery

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

The best vintages in the red wines of La Honda Winery

  • 2017With an average score of 4.06/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.84/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.84/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.78/5

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Sangiovese
  • Pinot Noir
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Zinfandel

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Pinot noir is an important red grape variety in Burgundy and Champagne, and its reputation is well known! Great wines such as the Domaine de la Romanée Conti elaborate their wines from this famous grape variety, and make it a great variety. When properly vinified, pinot noit produces red wines of great finesse, with a wide range of aromas depending on its advancement (fruit, undergrowth, leather). it is also the only red grape variety authorized in Alsace. Pinot Noir is not easily cultivated beyond our borders, although it has enjoyed some success in Oregon, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the La Honda Winery

Planning a wine route in the of Santa Cruz Mountains? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to La Honda Winery.

Discover the grape variety: Sangiovese

Originally from Italy, it is the famous Sangiovese of Tuscany producing the famous wines of Brunello de Montalcino and Chianti. This variety is registered in the Official Catalogue of Wine Grape Varieties, list A1. According to recent genetic analysis, it is the result of a natural cross between the almost unknown Calabrese di Montenuovo (mother) and Ciliegiolo (father).