Santa Barbara WineryLafond Vineyard Grenache
Red wine
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Lafond Vineyard Grenache of Santa Barbara Winery in the region of California often reveals types of flavors of oak, spices or red fruit and sometimes also flavors of black fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Lafond Vineyard Grenache
Pairings that work perfectly with Lafond Vineyard Grenache
Original food and wine pairings with Lafond Vineyard Grenache
The Lafond Vineyard Grenache of Santa Barbara Winery matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of pork tongue with bacon and onions or savoyard crozet gratin.
Details and technical informations about Santa Barbara Winery's Lafond Vineyard Grenache.
Discover the grape variety: Marsanne
Marsanne is a white grape variety that originated in Montélimar in the Drôme, several centuries ago. Marsanne is also found in Cassis, Savoie, Languedoc-Roussillon and Saint-Péray in the Ardèche, where it produces remarkable sparkling wines. The warm, sunny climate of the Rhone Valley, Languedoc-Roussillon and Provence, as well as the dry, stony soil, are ideal conditions for its development. Its bunches are quite large and provide small, juicy berries that are sensitive to grey rot and strong winds. These two grape varieties complement each other perfectly: together they give light wines with little acidity, aromas of yellow fruit, white fruit and flowers with notes of honey and liquorice. This is for example what the appellations Saint-Péray, Hermitage, Crozes-Hermitage, Saint-Joseph, Côtes-du-Vallée du Rhône, Corbières, or Cassis express... which represent about 700 hectares.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Lafond Vineyard Grenache from Santa Barbara Winery are 2015, 2013, 0, 2012 and 2014.
Informations about the Santa Barbara Winery
The Santa Barbara Winery is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 34 wines for sale in the of Sta. Rita Hills to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Sta. Rita Hills
The wine region of Sta. Rita Hills is located in the region of Santa Barbara County of California of United States. We currently count 268 estates and châteaux in the of Sta. Rita Hills, producing 792 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture.
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.
The word of the wine: Sweet
Generic term for wines containing residual sugar (natural sugars in the grapes that have not been transformed into alcohol). It is also used to describe a wine with a dominantly sweet flavour, without further explanation.
