Winery LovingstonJosie's Knoll Cabernet Franc
Red wine
This wine generally goes well with pork, poultry or beef.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Josie's Knoll Cabernet Franc of Winery Lovingston in the region of Virginia often reveals types of flavors of earth, oak or red fruit and sometimes also flavors of black fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Josie's Knoll Cabernet Franc
Pairings that work perfectly with Josie's Knoll Cabernet Franc
Original food and wine pairings with Josie's Knoll Cabernet Franc
The Josie's Knoll Cabernet Franc of Winery Lovingston matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef fashion, sloth pork loin or wild boar stew provencal style.
Details and technical informations about Winery Lovingston's Josie's Knoll Cabernet Franc.
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 planted as far north 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.
Last vintages of this wine
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Informations about the Winery Lovingston
The Winery Lovingston is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 12 wines for sale in the of Central Region to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Central Region
The wine region of Central Region is located in the region of Virginia of United States. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Michael Shaps or the Domaine Pitos produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Central Region are Cabernet-Sauvignon, Cabernet franc and Merlot, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Central Region often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, non oak or earth and sometimes also flavors of microbio, vegetal or oak.
The wine region of Virginia
Virginia is a state on the eastern seaboard of the United States, located immediately South of Maryland and North of the Carolinas. The state covers 42,750 square miles (110,750 km2) of mountains, valleys and the Atlantic coastal Complex that forms its eastern border. From the Cumberland and Blue Ridge Mountains in the west to the coastal creeks and estuaries in the east, Virginia's topography and geology are varied, to say the least. The landscape around the Chesapeake Bay - a vast coastal inlet that separates the main state from its Eastern Shore - could hardly be more different from that below Mt Rogers (1,750m), 480km to the west.
The word of the wine: Draft liquor (champagne)
After blending, the wine is bottled with a liqueur de tirage (a mixture of sugar and wine) and a yeast (selected yeasts). The yeast attacks the sugar and creates carbon dioxide. The fermentation, which lasts about two months, is prolonged by an ageing period (15 months minimum in total). The bottle is capped (some rare vintages are capped with a staple and a cork).
