The Winery Shale Canyon of San Benito County of California

Winery Shale Canyon
The winery offers 14 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 11 of the estates of California.
It is located in San Benito County in the region of California
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The Winery Shale Canyon is one of the world's great estates. It offers 14 wines for sale in of San Benito County to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Shale Canyon wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Shale Canyon

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Shale Canyon

How Winery Shale Canyon wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of tournedos rossini, roast veal orloff or duck breast in a crust.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Shale Canyon

On the nose the red wine of Winery Shale Canyon. often reveals types of flavors of oak, black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Shale Canyon. is a powerful with a lot of tannins present in the mouth.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Shale Canyon

  • 0With an average score of 3.69/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.53/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.50/5

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

  • Sangiovese
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Mourvedre

Discovering the wine region of San Benito County

California county on the Central Coast (neighbours Cienega Valley, Lime Kiln Valley, Paicines, Mount Harlan): Pinot Noir (28%) and Chardonnay (25%) are the signature kings — cool-climate profile shaped by Pacific breezes between the Gabilan Range and Santa Lucia, warm days tempered by marine winds and altitude. Cabernet Sauvignon (16%), Merlot (8%), Riesling (5%), Sauvignon Blanc (4%) and Syrah round out this geologically complex terroir.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Shale Canyon

Planning a wine route in the of San Benito County? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Shale Canyon.

Discover the grape variety: Mourvèdre

Powerful, deep reds with firm tannins and dense texture, showing aromas of blackberry, leather, garrigue, black pepper, liquorice and animal notes (game, forest floor) with age. Star of Bandol AOC as a single variety and pillar of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Gigondas and Costières blends. Also in GSM in Languedoc and Australia. A late-ripening variety of Spanish origin (Mataró/Monastrell).