The Winery McEachran Homestead of Illinois

Winery McEachran Homestead
The winery offers 8 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.1.
It is ranked in the top 180 of the estates of Illinois.
It is located in Illinois

The Winery McEachran Homestead is one of the best wineries to follow in Illinois.. It offers 8 wines for sale in of Illinois to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery McEachran Homestead wines

Looking for the best Winery McEachran Homestead wines in Illinois among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery McEachran Homestead 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 McEachran Homestead wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery McEachran Homestead

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery McEachran Homestead

How Winery McEachran Homestead wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

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

  • Niagara
  • Edelweiss

Discovering the wine region of Illinois

Illinois is a U. S. state located South of the Great Lakes region and bordered by Missouri to the west and Indiana to the east. The state is one of the fastest-growing wine producers in the United States; the number of wineries doubled in the late 1990s and now stands at over 100.

Illinois covers 150,000 square kilometers (58,000 square miles) between latitudes 36°N and 42°N, similar to northern California. However, the unpredictable and often Harsh winters of the Midwest mean that viticulture is not as widespread as in the key Californian regions of Napa Valley and Sonoma County. Most Illinois vineyards are located in the south, where they can take advantage of slightly warmer temperatures and increased exposure to sunlight. Illinois has a Long and successful wine-growing history dating back to the mid-19th century, when settlers planted grapes along the banks of the Mississippi River to make wine.

By the turn of the century, Illinois was the fourth largest wine-producing state in the United States. Like many states, this thriving wine industry was devastated by the advent of Prohibition in 1920, when most of Illinois' vineyards were uprooted in favor of grain crops.

The top red wines of Winery McEachran Homestead

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery McEachran Homestead

How Winery McEachran Homestead wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignonasse

Would be the friulano - before 2007 called tocai friulano - from Veneto in Italy. It would be a distant relative of furmint and Jean-Michel Boursiquot (2019) states that it is the father or mother of chenin blanc. However, Sauvignonasse has nothing to do with Sauvignon Blanc, which it was once mixed with in the Sauternes region. It can be found in Italy, Chile, Argentina, Russia, ... practically more multiplied in France.

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Planning a wine route in the of Illinois? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery McEachran Homestead.

Discover the grape variety: Assyrtiko

This is a very old grape variety grown in Greece, particularly in the southern Cyclades Islands in the Aegean Sea, and more specifically in the Santorini archipelago. It is related to gaidouria and platani. In this country, it is quite often "associated" with other grape varieties such as aïdani, athiri, malagousia, ... . Assyrtiko can be found in Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Romania, the United States, Mexico, South Africa, etc. Little known in France, it is nevertheless registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A.

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