The Lightpost Winery of Santa Clara County of California

Lightpost Winery
The winery offers 16 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 Santa Clara County in the region of California

The Lightpost Winery is one of the best wineries to follow in Santa Clara County.. It offers 16 wines for sale in of Santa Clara County to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Lightpost Winery wines

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

The top white wines of Lightpost Winery

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Lightpost Winery

How Lightpost Winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of oven-baked sausage, sushi cake or lamb curry indian style.

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

  • Albariño

Discovering the wine region of Santa Clara County

California Central Coast county (San Francisco Bay AVA, rich alluvial soils, dry Mediterranean climate, Santa Cruz Mountains shield from Pacific breezes): Cabernet Sauvignon signature red (25%) — robust with rich dark fruit and firm tannins. Pinot Noir (19%) in the cooler Hecker Pass zone, Chardonnay (17%), Zinfandel and Syrah as complements, 19th-century wine heritage.

The top red wines of Lightpost Winery

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Lightpost Winery

How Lightpost Winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of homemade beef stew, veal paupiettes à la bourguignonne or rabbit with cider and mushrooms.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Lightpost Winery

On the nose the red wine of Lightpost Winery. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Lightpost Winery. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Lightpost Winery

  • 0With an average score of 4.03/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.00/5

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

  • Pinot Noir
  • Carignan
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Grenache
  • Mourvedre
  • Cabernet Sauvignon

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Elegant reds, light in colour with silky tannins, showing strawberry, cherry and raspberry aromas, evolving to forest floor, mushroom and spice with age. Fresh acidity, delicate finish. Star of the Côte d'Or (Romanée-Conti, Chambertin, Volnay), pillar of Champagne (Blanc de Noirs) and signature of Oregon, Central Otago and Sonoma Coast. An early-ripening Burgundian variety, one of the world's greatest.

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Discover the grape variety: Carignan

Intensely coloured and powerful reds with a deep colour, firm tannins and high acidity, on aromas of blackberry, blackcurrant, plum, garrigue, pepper, liquorice and balsamic notes. Old vines (>50 years, often centenary) yield exceptional cuvées. A historical pillar of Languedoc-Roussillon blends (Corbières, Minervois, Fitou, Maury) and star of Catalan Priorat under the name Cariñena. Very late-ripening variety from Aragon, also called Mazuelo in Rioja.