Winery RappahannockVS Cabernet Franc
Red wine
This wine generally goes well with pork, poultry or beef.
The VS Cabernet Franc of the Winery Rappahannock is in the top 10 of wines of Virginia.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the VS Cabernet Franc of Winery Rappahannock in the region of Virginia often reveals types of flavors of oak, spices or red fruit.
Food and wine pairings with VS Cabernet Franc
Pairings that work perfectly with VS Cabernet Franc
Original food and wine pairings with VS Cabernet Franc
The VS Cabernet Franc of Winery Rappahannock matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of wild boar with honey, spanish paella or wild boar, roe deer or doe leg.
Details and technical informations about Winery Rappahannock's VS Cabernet Franc.
Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc
Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of VS Cabernet Franc from Winery Rappahannock are 2014, 2012, 2011, 2015 and 2016.
Informations about the Winery Rappahannock
The Winery Rappahannock is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 44 wines for sale in the of Virginia to come and discover on site or to buy online.
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.
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The word of the wine: Hat
Solid part (marc), composed of pips and skins (sometimes of the stalk), which forms at the top of the tank during fermentation. The pigeage consists in breaking this cap to put back in suspension these elements and to favour the exchanges between the juice and the skins.
