The Winery Olof Cellars of Lake County of California

Winery Olof Cellars - Malbec Lake County
The winery offers 10 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 214 of the estates of California.
It is located in Lake County in the region of California

The Winery Olof Cellars is one of the best wineries to follow in Lake County.. It offers 10 wines for sale in of Lake County to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Olof Cellars wines

Looking for the best Winery Olof Cellars wines in Lake County among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Olof Cellars 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 Olof Cellars wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Olof Cellars

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Olof Cellars

How Winery Olof Cellars wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry such as recipes of beef tournedos with boursin, chaouia lamb or italian gnocchi.

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Olof Cellars.

  • Malbec

Discovering the wine region of Lake County

The wine region of Lake County is located in the region of North Coast of California of United States. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Alienor or the Domaine Derenoncourt produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Lake County are Cabernet-Sauvignon, Zinfandel and Merlot, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Lake County often reveals types of flavors of grapefruit, oak or tropical fruit and sometimes also flavors of floral, vegetal or red fruit.

In the mouth of Lake County is a powerful with a nice freshness. We currently count 177 estates and châteaux in the of Lake County, producing 383 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Lake County go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Olof Cellars

Planning a wine route in the of Lake County? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Olof Cellars.

Discover the grape variety: Chenin

Chenin, also known as pinot de la Loire Valley (pineau), is the flagship grape variety of the Loire Valley. It would have found its first origins in Anjou where it would have been cultivated by the monks of the Abbey of Saint-Maur located between Angers and Saumur since the 6th century. chenin is a great white grape variety which likes particularly the chalky soils called here stones of tufa which were used for the construction of the castles of the Loire Valley. Its bunches are medium-sized, fairly compact and its berries are more or less small. It is an early variety, which resists well to diseases. Chenin has the particularity of being able to participate as well in the elaboration of dry white wines as of sweet white wines or sparkling wines. Perfectly structured by the acidity, elegant, with a complex nose and aromas of yellow fruits, dry fruits, citrus fruits, white flowers, honey... the wine resulting from the chenin is rather lively and nervous, which allows him a good potential of guard. Chenin covers about 10,000 hectares in France, and is very productive in South Africa where it covers more than 26,000 hectares.

News about Winery Olof Cellars and wines from the region

Lake County Winegrape Commission to host first regional pruning school for vineyard workers

The course will be taught by the masters of vineyard management, Simonit & Sirch, and their Master Pruner, Jacopo Miolo. Lake County sits north of California’s most famed region, the Napa Valley, but the techniques being taught by Miolo (in both English and Spanish) are employed at an impressive list of wineries. Their client list includes some of the world’s most renowned producers; Château d‘Yquem, Chateau Latour, and Roederer, among others. In  Napa, names like Corison, Diamond Creek, Sha ...

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 ...

Ten years on: Chinese wine’s breakthrough moment at DWWA

The prestige attached to winning at the Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA) means that being awarded a Bronze medal for some wineries will mean huge celebrations in China, Japan, India, or Thailand. Since the competition began in 2004, I have often reminded judges on my panel about this – whether they are journalists, sommeliers, educators, Masters of Wine or Master Sommeliers. Scroll down for new tasting notes and scores on Jia Bei Lan vintages: from the Chinese wine label that won big at DWWA 20 ...

The word of the wine: Pressing

Mechanical action consisting of pressing the grapes (before fermentation for whites) or the marc soaked in wine (after fermentation for reds).