The Winery Lava Cap of Sierra Foothills of California

Winery Lava Cap
The winery offers 33 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.
It is ranked in the top 7 of the estates of California.
It is located in Sierra Foothills in the region of California
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The Winery Lava Cap is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 33 wines for sale in of Sierra Foothills to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Lava Cap wines

Looking for the best Winery Lava Cap wines in Sierra Foothills among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Lava Cap 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 Lava Cap wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Lava Cap

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Lava Cap

How Winery Lava Cap wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, spicy food or poultry such as recipes of quick brioche sausage, coconut chicken curry in thermomix or traditional welsh dark beer.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Lava Cap

On the nose the red wine of Winery Lava Cap. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or red fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Lava Cap. is a powerful with a lot of tannins present in the mouth.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Lava Cap

  • 2019With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.01/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.01/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.98/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.96/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.96/5

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

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Zinfandel
  • Grenache
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Petite Sirah
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Sierra Foothills

Historic stronghold of Californian Zinfandel (~40% of plantings) inherited from the Gold Rush (1856). Fleshy, sunny reds with signature notes of candied blackberry, raspberry, pepper, liquorice and sweet spices, round tannins and generous warmth. Over-100-year-old vines at Amador. Also dense, peppery Syrah, lively, fruity Barbera, deep Petite Sirah.

Vineyards between 300-1,070 m on granite and volcanic rock, large temperature swings. 2,300 ha, 7 counties.

The top white wines of Winery Lava Cap

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Lava Cap

How Winery Lava Cap wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of oven-baked sausage, tuna, pepper and tomato quiche or mushroom, bacon and gruyere quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Lava Cap

On the nose the white wine of Winery Lava Cap. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, oak or tree fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Lava Cap. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Lava Cap

  • 2016With an average score of 4.14/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2012With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.93/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.78/5

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

  • Chardonnay
  • Muscat Blanc
  • Viognier
  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discover the grape variety: White muscat

White muscat is a white grape variety of Greek origin. Present in several Mediterranean vineyards, it has several synonyms such as muscat de Die, muscat blanc and frontignac. In France, it occupies a little less than 7,000 ha out of a total of 45,000 ha worldwide. Its young shoots are downy. Its youngest leaves are shiny, bronzed and scabrous. The berries and bunches of this variety are all medium-sized. The flesh of the berries is juicy, sweet and firm. Muscat à petits grains has a second ripening period and buds early in the year. It is moderately vigorous and must be pruned short. It likes poor, stony slopes. This variety is often exposed to spring frosts. It fears mildew, wasps, grape worms, court-noué, grey rot and powdery mildew. Muscat à petits grains is used to make rosé wines and dry white wines. Orange, brown sugar, barley sugar and raisins are the known aromas of these wines.

The top pink wines of Winery Lava Cap

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Lava Cap

How Winery Lava Cap wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or veal such as recipes of beef tenderloin wellington, eggplant moussaka with lamb or pork shank stew.

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Winery Lava Cap

On the nose the pink wine of Winery Lava Cap. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Lava Cap

  • 0With an average score of 4.00/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Lava Cap.

  • Sangiovese
  • Zinfandel

The word of the wine: Vinosity

When tasting a red wine, a pleasant sensation on the palate with a fruity and sappy character in harmony with a caressing and persistent presence of tannins.

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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 also well planted further north, as far 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.

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