The Lightpost Winery of Santa Clara County of California

Lightpost Winery - Albariño
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 quiche without pastry, salmon pave en papillotte or chinese noodles with shrimp.

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

  • Albariño

Discovering the wine region of Santa Clara County

The wine region of Santa Clara County is located in the region of Central Coast of California of United States. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine A Tribute to Grace or the Testarossa Winery produce mainly wines red, white and sparkling. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Santa Clara County are Zinfandel, Cabernet-Sauvignon and Pinot noir, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Santa Clara County often reveals types of flavors of black fruit, microbio or vegetal and sometimes also flavors of oak, non oak or earth.

In the mouth of Santa Clara County is a powerful with a nice freshness. We currently count 17 estates and châteaux in the of Santa Clara County, producing 31 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Santa Clara County go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, mature and hard cheese or pork.

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 brazilian feijoada, rabbit with hunter's sauce or prime rib with chervil butter.

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

  • 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: Albarino

It is a Spanish variety, in Galicia to be precise, with its cradle in the Rias Baixas area, around Pontevedra and up to Orense. It would be a close relative of the Loureiro. Widely cultivated in Portugal, ... in France, it is registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A1.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Lightpost Winery

Planning a wine route in the of Santa Clara County? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Lightpost Winery.

Discover the grape variety: Carignan

Mainly cultivated in the Languedoc region, carignan originates from Spain. Because of its very resistant branches, it is often called hardwood. Its bunches are quite large. They are compact and winged with a lignified stalk. The berries are spherical in shape and take on a bluish-black colour. Carignan has a total of 25 approved clones, the best known of which are 274, 65 and 9. The carignan buds at the beginning of June and is protected from spring frosts. It does not reach maturity until the third period. Also, this grape variety needs warmth and sunshine. It appreciates dry and not very fertile soils. Carignan vines can live for more than 100 years. Those that are more than 30 years old produce a better wine. This wine is well coloured. It is generous and powerful at the same time. Pepper, cherry, blackberry, banana, raspberry, almond, prune and violet are some of the aromas that this grape variety gives off.

News about Lightpost Winery and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Size (champagne)

Juices that flow from the press after the cuvée, at the second pressing. Less fine, often more vegetal, it is mainly used to make the first price champagnes.