The Prairie State Winery of Illinois

Prairie State Winery
The winery offers 41 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 46 of the estates of Illinois.
It is located in Illinois

The Prairie State Winery is one of the world's great estates. It offers 41 wines for sale in of Illinois to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Prairie State Winery wines

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

The top red wines of Prairie State Winery

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Prairie State Winery

How Prairie State Winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of fondue vigneronne au vin rouge, croque madame or autumn pumpkin pie.

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

  • Chambourcin
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Zinfandel
  • Concord
  • Sangiovese

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 white wines of Prairie State Winery

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Prairie State Winery

How Prairie State Winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

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

  • La Crescent
  • Chardonel

Discover the grape variety: La Crescent

A direct-producer hybrid of American origin resulting from an interspecific cross between Saint Pepin and Elmer Swenson 6-8-25 (vitis riparia X Hamburg muscatel) obtained in 1988 by Peter Hemstad and James Luby at the University of Minnesota Research Center (United States). It can also be found in Canada, Ukraine, Russia, etc. and is virtually unknown in France.

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Discover the grape variety: Zinfandel

From Croatia where it is called crljenak kastelanski or pribidrag. According to genetic analyses carried out by Professor Carole Meredith of California University in Davis (United States), it is related to the Croatian plavac mali and Zinfandel. It is also found in South Africa, New Zealand, Chile, Brazil, Germany, Bulgaria, Albania, Italy under the name of Primitivo, Malta, Greece, Portugal and to some extent in Croatia. In the United States (California), it is one of the most widely planted grape varieties, having been introduced in the 1830s well before Primitivo. In France, it is registered in the official catalogue of vine varieties on the A1 list under the name Primitivo.

News about Prairie State Winery and wines from the region

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Verzé

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At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Saint-Gengoux-Le-National

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The word of the wine: Extra raw

Champagne dosed between 0 and 6 grams of sugar (see dosage liqueur).

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