Winery Oak FarmSingle Vineyard Series Estate Grown Petit Verdot
Red wine
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.
Food and wine pairings with Single Vineyard Series Estate Grown Petit Verdot
Pairings that work perfectly with Single Vineyard Series Estate Grown Petit Verdot
Original food and wine pairings with Single Vineyard Series Estate Grown Petit Verdot
The Single Vineyard Series Estate Grown Petit Verdot of Winery Oak Farm matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of southern beef meatballs or avocado, tomato and sheep's tomato salad.
Details and technical informations about Winery Oak Farm's Single Vineyard Series Estate Grown Petit Verdot.
Discover the grape variety: Petit Verdot
Dark, full-bodied reds with tight tannins and inky colour, showing aromas of blackberry, violet, gentle spice, liquorice and mentholated balsamic notes. Contributes colour, structure and aromatic freshness to great Médoc blends (Palmer, Léoville-Las Cases) where it remains a minority. Also vinified as a single variety in Spain (La Mancha), California, Australia and Argentina. A late-ripening Bordeaux variety.
Informations about the Winery Oak Farm
The Winery Oak Farm is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 41 wines for sale in the of Lodi to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Lodi
Self-proclaimed world capital of Zinfandel (>40% of premium Californian production): old-vine red king (plantings from 1888) — opulent and jammy with notes of blackberry, plum, raspberry, pepper, liquorice and a tobacco touch, coated tannins. Cabernet, Syrah, Merlot, Tempranillo, Albariño, Barbera and Primitivo in the palette (>100 grapes). Viognier and Chardonnay in whites. Central Californian AVA (1986) east of the bay, Mediterranean climate tempered by the delta.
The wine region of California
Powerful, sunny reds: dense Napa Cabernet Sauvignon (blackcurrant, chocolate, tobacco, ample tannins), spicy, jammy Zinfandel from the Sierra Foothills, silky red-fruited Pinot Noir on the cool coast (Sonoma, Russian River, Central Coast). Opulent, buttery Chardonnay, notes of yellow fruit and vanilla. Varied climate, from the hot interior to the Pacific-cooled coast. 80% of US production, 139 AVAs including Napa (1st AVA, 1981).
The word of the wine: Grafting
A method used since the phylloxera crisis, consisting of fixing a graft of local origin on a rootstock resistant to phylloxera.
