The Winery Rockwood of California

Winery Rockwood
The winery offers 5 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.4.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of California.
It is located in California

The Winery Rockwood is one of the best wineries to follow in Californie.. It offers 5 wines for sale in of California to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Rockwood wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Rockwood

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Rockwood

How Winery Rockwood wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of beef carrots, hawaiian poke bowl or spinach and goat cheese quiche.

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

  • Chardonnay

Discovering the wine region of California

California is the largest and most important wine region in the United States. It represents the southern two-thirds (850 miles or 1,370 kilometers) of the country's west coast. (Oregon and Washington make up the rest. ) The state also spans nearly 10 degrees of latitude.

With its mountains, valleys, plains and plateaus, California's topography is as Complex as its Climate, offering winemakers a bewildering array of terroirs. California wines have only gained worldwide recognition in recent decades (especially after the 1976 Paris ruling). However, the state's wine history goes back more than 200 years. European vines were first planted in the 18th century, when settlers and missionaries moved up and down the West Coast.

The top red wines of Winery Rockwood

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Rockwood

How Winery Rockwood wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or veal such as recipes of oxtail with seed sauce, lamb mice confit and melting carrots or milanese escalope (italy).

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

  • Merlot

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.

The top pink wines of Winery Rockwood

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Rockwood

How Winery Rockwood wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or goat cheese such as recipes of beef goulash, lamb crumble with oregano and feta cheese or migliacci (corsica).

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Rockwood

  • 2015With an average score of 3.20/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Rockwood.

  • Zinfandel

The word of the wine: Old

This term can have several meanings, but generally refers to a wine that is several years old and has been aged in the bottle after having been in the barrel.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Rockwood

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

Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

News about Winery Rockwood and wines from the region

Bordeaux 2022 harvest: Vintage looks ‘very promising’

A ‘very promising’ vintage is expected, said the regional wine council (CIVB), as the Bordeaux 2022 harvest gets underway for reds. It’s still too early to judge fully and yields will be lower in some cases following heat, drought and also hailstorms during the growing season, yet the CIVB cited ‘attractive but small berries’ and healthy vineyard conditions during the crucial flowering period and for harvest. Europe has seen early starts to wine harvests in 2022 and the C ...

Duckhorn expands in Napa Valley with vineyard deals

Duckhorn Portfolio said it has acquired around 20 hectares (50 acres) of Napa Valley vineyards via separate deals. This includes 16 hectares (40 acres) of the Stanly Ranch vineyard in Los Carneros and the four-hectare (10 acre) Red Wing vineyard in St. Helena, said the group, which is listed under the ‘Napa’ ticker on the New York Stock Exchange. ‘As our portfolio has evolved to include 10 renowned luxury wineries, our commitment to having a robust estate vineyard programme continues to be centr ...

Former mafia boss Michael Franzese targets international expansion for his wine brand

Franzese was known as the ‘yuppie don’ in the 1980s after rising to the rank of caporegime in the Colombo crime family. Fortune Magazine placed him at No. 18 on its 50 Biggest Mafia Bosses list, and he gained a reputation as one of the mob’s biggest earners since Al Capone. He was portrayed by Joseph Bono in Goodfellas. Franzese became a born-again Christian during a lengthy prison sentence for racketeering, and he managed to walk away from the mafia without going into protective custody. He is ...

The word of the wine: Old

This term can have several meanings, but generally refers to a wine that is several years old and has been aged in the bottle after having been in the barrel.