The Winery Purgatory of Illinois

Winery Purgatory
The winery offers 44 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 114 of the estates of Illinois.
It is located in Illinois

The Winery Purgatory is one of the best wineries to follow in Illinois.. It offers 44 wines for sale in of Illinois to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Purgatory wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Purgatory

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Purgatory

How Winery Purgatory wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef stew express, brazilian feijoada or duck confit parmentier.

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

  • Petite Sirah
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Malbec
  • Primitivo

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 Winery Purgatory

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Purgatory

How Winery Purgatory wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or vegetarian such as recipes of tomato pie without tomato..., indian chicken (simplified korma) or summer tuna quiche.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Purgatory

  • 0With an average score of 4.10/5

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

  • Riesling
  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discover the grape variety: Petite Sirah

The top sparkling wines of Winery Purgatory

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Purgatory

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

Organoleptic analysis of sparkling wines of Winery Purgatory

On the nose the sparkling wine of Winery Purgatory. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, microbio or oak and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit.

The best vintages in the sparkling wines of Winery Purgatory

  • 0With an average score of 4.30/5

The word of the wine: Burned

Qualifier, sometimes equivocal, of various odors, ranging from caramel to burnt wood.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Purgatory

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

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.

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