The Winery Snowy Peaks of Colorado

Winery Snowy Peaks
The winery offers 30 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 90 of the estates of Colorado.
It is located in Colorado

The Winery Snowy Peaks is one of the world's great estates. It offers 30 wines for sale in of Colorado to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Snowy Peaks wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Snowy Peaks

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Snowy Peaks

How Winery Snowy Peaks wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of rabbit with prunes, salmon carpaccio with pink berries and shallots or flambéed prawns.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Snowy Peaks

  • 0With an average score of 3.71/5

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

  • Albariño
  • Gewürztraminer
  • Riesling
  • Viognier

Discovering the wine region of Colorado

Colorado is a state in the western United States, bordered by NewMexico to the South and Wyoming to the North. Colorado's vineyards are among the highest in the world, reaching altitudes of 2135 m in the Rocky Mountains. They rival even the famous Andean vineyards of Argentina. Grapes grown at this altitude produce wine with vibrant, intense colors and aromas created by the intense sunlight and cool nights.

Colorado's best wines are made from grape varieties such as Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Riesling and Chardonnay. The state covers just under 270,000 square miles of land between latitudes 37°N and 41°N, from the Rockies to the eastern lowlands. Colorado's Climate is typically continental; the nearest large bodies of water are more than 500 miles away. This results in hot, Dry summers and cold winters, especially in the higher elevations.

The top red wines of Winery Snowy Peaks

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Snowy Peaks

How Winery Snowy Peaks wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beer goulash, beef stew or wild rabbit with cider.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Snowy Peaks

On the nose the red wine of Winery Snowy Peaks. often reveals types of flavors of oak, red fruit or black fruit and sometimes also flavors of earth, non oak.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Snowy Peaks

  • 0With an average score of 3.71/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.60/5

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot
  • Mourvedre
  • Petite Sirah
  • Shiraz/Syrah

Discover the grape variety: Tempranillo

The black Tempranillo is a grape variety native to Spain. It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by medium-sized bunches and medium-sized grapes. The black Tempranillo can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

The top sweet wines of Winery Snowy Peaks

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Snowy Peaks

How Winery Snowy Peaks wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Winery Snowy Peaks

  • 0With an average score of 4.10/5

The word of the wine: Biodynamic (agriculture)

Organic agriculture is part of a vision of the world linking the plant and all living beings to the cosmos and basing work in the vineyard and the cellar on the cycles of the moon.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Snowy Peaks

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

Discover the grape variety: Gewurztraminer

Gewurztraminer rosé is a grape variety that originated in France. 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 vine is characterized by small bunches and small grapes. Gewurztraminer rosé can be found in many vineyards: Alsace, Loire Valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Jura, Champagne, Lorraine, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, South West.