The Winery Otium of Virginia

Winery Otium
The winery offers 10 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 145 of the estates of Virginia.
It is located in Virginia
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The Winery Otium is one of the best wineries to follow in Virginie.. It offers 10 wines for sale in of Virginia to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Otium wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Otium

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Otium

How Winery Otium wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of chicken ballotine with ham and mushrooms, salmon pavés en papillote or ginouflade (kind of truffade or aligot but multi cheese).

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Otium

On the nose the red wine of Winery Otium. often reveals types of flavors of earth, oak or spices and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, black fruit or non oak.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Otium

  • 2015With an average score of 4.17/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.03/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.99/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.94/5

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

  • Blaufränkisch
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Dornfelder
  • Malbec
  • Merlot

Discovering 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 Shenandoah Valley is the largest AVA in the country. It stretches for 240 km at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the natural boundary that separates Virginia from West Virginia. The Monticello AVA is the oldest, formed in February 1984 and located around Charlottesville in Central Virginia. It has the honor of being the home of Thomas Jefferson, his extensive French wine collection and the state's first winery.

The top white wines of Winery Otium

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Otium

How Winery Otium wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of potjevleesch, endives with smoked salmon au gratin or magic cake cheese quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Otium

On the nose the white wine of Winery Otium. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, microbio or oak and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, spices or citrus fruit.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Otium

  • 0With an average score of 3.46/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.40/5

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

  • Chardonnay
  • Grüner Veltliner
  • Pinot Gris

Discover the grape variety: Malbec

Malbec, a high-yielding red grape variety, produces tannic and colourful wines. It is produced in different wine-growing regions and changes its name according to the grape variety. Called Auxerrois in Cahors, Malbec in Bordeaux, it is also known as Côt. 6,000 hectares of the Malbec grape are grown in France (in decline since the 1950s). Malbec is also very successful in Argentina. The country has become the world's leading producer of Malbec and offers wines with great potential.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Otium

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

Discover the grape variety: Pinot gris

Pinot Gris is a grey grape variety mutated from Pinot Noir. It has its origins in Burgundy, where it is called pinot-beurot in reference to the colour of the grey robes worn by the monks of the region. Established in Alsace since the 17th century, pinot gris was called tokay until 2007. It is made up of bunches of small berries that vary in colour from pink to blue-grey. It is particularly well suited to the continental climate because it is resistant to the cold in winter and to spring frosts. This variety also likes dry limestone soils with plenty of sunshine in the summer. Pinot Gris is well suited to late harvesting or to the selection of noble grapes, depending on the year and the concentration of sugars in the berries. Pinot Gris wines are distinguished by their aromatic complexity of white fruits, mushrooms, honey, vanilla, cinnamon, etc., and their great finesse. In the Loire Valley, pinot gris is used in the Coteaux-d'Ancenis appellations. It gives dry or sweet wines with pear and peach aromas.

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