The Winery Little Straw Vineyards is one of the world's great estates. It offers 22 wines for sale in of Okanagan Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Little Straw Vineyards wines in Okanagan Valley among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Little Straw Vineyards 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 Little Straw Vineyards wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Little Straw Vineyards wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of peasant minestrone, quick salmon and zucchini lasagna or filet mignon stuffed with bacon and comté cheese.
On the nose the red wine of Winery Little Straw Vineyards. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit, non oak or earth and sometimes also flavors of microbio, oak or spices.
The Okanagan Valley is one of six Designated Viticultural Areas in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The DryClimate in this "pocket desert" produces some unique wines made from Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Riesling, Pinot Noir, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris and Chardonnay.
There is now an almost even split between white and red grapes planted, with Merlot the most common variety. Ice wine can be produced in the Okanagan Valley but the necessary temperatures are not as consistent as on the east coast, where the winters are much colder.
The DVA produces more than 80 percent of the province's output and is the second most prolific wine region in Canada, behind Ontario's Niagara Peninsula. There are around 185 licensed grape wineries and 3,575 hectares (8,830 acres) of vineyards.
The Long, narrow Okanagan Valley runs for around 210 kilometers (130 miles) from the Northern town of Salmon Arm to the border of the United States in the South. Much of the viticulture occurs in the Center of the region on the shores of Lake Okanagan, from which the area takes its name.
The Okanagan river then flows south into the US state of Washington, where it converges with the viticulturally significant Columbia River (home to the extensive Columbia Valley AVA). The river is spelled Okonogan in the United States.
Unlike in the fragmented Niagara Peninsula appellation, the Okanagan Valley forms just one designated viticultural area. However, the diversity of Terroir here means there are a number of subregions within it.
How Winery Little Straw Vineyards wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, lean fish or fruity desserts such as recipes of norman mussels with cider, hake with small shrimps for cookeo or rice with milk.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Little Straw Vineyards. often reveals types of flavors of earth, tree fruit or citrus fruit and sometimes also flavors of tropical fruit, microbio or vegetal.
An intraspecific cross between the Madeleine angevine and the Gewurztraminer obtained in 1929 by Georg Scheu at the Alzey testing station (Germany). Almost unknown in France, it can be found in Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, England, the United States, Canada, etc.
How Winery Little Straw Vineyards wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of veal tagine with prunes, paupiettes with tomato sauce or oven roasted rabbit that cooks itself!.
On the nose the pink wine of Winery Little Straw Vineyards. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit.
Cutting of shoots to regulate and balance the growth of the vine in order to control productivity.
How Winery Little Straw Vineyards wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, game (deer, venison) or shellfish such as recipes of quick beef bourguignon, venison stew to be prepared the day before or sublime fish and shrimp colombo.
On the nose the sparkling wine of Winery Little Straw Vineyards. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit.
Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.
Planning a wine route in the of Okanagan Valley? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Little Straw Vineyards.
Maréchal Foch noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Alsace). It is a variety resulting from a cross of the same species (interspecific hybridization). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches and small grapes. The Maréchal Foch noir can be found cultivated in these vineyards: Provence & Corsica, Rhône Valley, Languedoc & Roussillon.
I n 2009 Prosecco was re-mapped in sweeping changes that created an extensive new zone for the production of Prosecco DOC and elevated the traditional growing areas of Valdobbiadene-Conegliano to DOCG, Italy’s top denomination. At that time, one might have overlooked the fact that the new legislation also created a small, independent DOCG for Asolo Prosecco to the west of the river Piave. The sparkling wines of the area had low visibility, producers were few and production was limited. However t ...
How’s the weather been this year? Awful. ‘La nature m’écoeure’, one of my wine-growing friends posted on Facebook on 8 April, having been out to look at the frost-crippled shoots on his vines that morning: ‘Nature disgusts me’. It takes a lot to make a wine-grower feel that. He wasn’t alone. Jeremiads echo around the northern hemisphere as 2021 closes. It’s been the year of all the miseries. None suffered more horribly than the growers of Germany’s Ahr valley, where floodwaters caused by the fou ...
The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...
Cutting of shoots to regulate and balance the growth of the vine in order to control productivity.
