The Winery Riaza of El Dorado County of California

Winery Riaza
The winery offers 26 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 99 of the estates of California.
It is located in El Dorado County in the region of California
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The Winery Riaza is one of the world's great estates. It offers 26 wines for sale in of El Dorado County to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Riaza wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Riaza

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Riaza

How Winery Riaza wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, appetizers and snacks or lean fish such as recipes of three ways to prepare chinese noodles, tuna wraps or cod tournedos with chorizo.

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

  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discovering the wine region of El Dorado County

The wine region of El Dorado County is located in the region of Sierra Foothills of California of United States. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Jolie-Laide or the Domaine Scott McLeod produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of El Dorado County are Cabernet-Sauvignon, Zinfandel and Sangiovese, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of El Dorado County often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, black fruit or red fruit.

In the mouth of El Dorado County is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 51 estates and châteaux in the of El Dorado County, producing 95 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of El Dorado County go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or veal.

The top red wines of Winery Riaza

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Riaza

How Winery Riaza wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, spicy food or lamb such as recipes of monkfish (anglerfish) à la sétoise, loubia or leg of lamb in a casserole.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Riaza

On the nose the red wine of Winery Riaza. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit, black fruit or non oak and sometimes also flavors of earth, oak or dried fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Riaza. is a powerful.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Riaza

  • 0With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.30/5

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

  • Tempranillo
  • Monastrell
  • Zinfandel
  • Carignan
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Grenache

Discover the grape variety: Garnacha

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Riaza

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

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.