The Winery McHenry Vineyard of Santa Cruz Mountains of California

Winery McHenry Vineyard - Pinot Noir
Only one wine is currently referenced in this domain
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 29 of the estates of California.
It is located in Santa Cruz Mountains in the region of California
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The Winery McHenry Vineyard is one of the world's great estates. It offers 1 wines for sale in of Santa Cruz Mountains to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery McHenry Vineyard wines

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

The top red wines of Winery McHenry Vineyard

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery McHenry Vineyard

How Winery McHenry Vineyard wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of rosbeef casserole mamie, oxtail confit in red wine or oven roasted rabbit with mustard.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery McHenry Vineyard

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

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery McHenry Vineyard

  • 2014With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2013With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2012With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.80/5

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

  • Pinot Noir

Discovering the wine region of Santa Cruz Mountains

The wine region of Santa Cruz Mountains is located in the region of San Francisco Bay of California of United States. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Ridge Vineyards or the Kathryn Kennedy Winery produce mainly wines red and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Santa Cruz Mountains are Cabernet-Sauvignon, Pinot noir and Chardonnay, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Santa Cruz Mountains often reveals types of flavors of cream, pencil shavings or black fruit and sometimes also flavors of charcoal, black truffle or blackberry jam.

In the mouth of Santa Cruz Mountains is a powerful with a nice freshness. We currently count 146 estates and châteaux in the of Santa Cruz Mountains, producing 486 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Santa Cruz Mountains go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery McHenry Vineyard

Planning a wine route in the of Santa Cruz Mountains? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery McHenry Vineyard.

Discover the grape variety: Optima

Intraspecific crossing between sylvaner x riesling (perhaps rieslaner) and müller-thurgau obtained in 1930 by Peter Morio (1887-1960) and Bernhard Husfeld (1900-1970) at the Siebeldingen Research Institute (Palatinate) in Germany. It can be found in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, the Netherlands, Hungary, England, Canada, South Africa, Brazil, ... very little known in France. Note that Optima is the mother of the Orion grape variety.

News about Winery McHenry Vineyard and wines from the region

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

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 ...

Californian Pinot Noir pioneer Josh Jensen passes away

Josh Jensen was famed for producing elegant, silky Pinot Noirs at Calera Wine Company on the Central Coast.  Leading wine critic Robert Parker Jr once described Calera – the company that Jensen founded in 1971 – as ‘California’s Romanée-Conti.’ Jensen completed undergraduate studies at Yale, but his love of fine wine blossomed while completing an MA in social anthropology at Oxford University in the UK. He was a key member of the rowing crew at both universities, but he still found time to devel ...

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The word of the wine: Ventilate

Expose the wine to the air before serving, to allow it to open up more, to develop its aromas and to round out its tannins.

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