The Winery Steeplechase of California

Winery Steeplechase
The winery offers 23 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.2.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of California.
It is located in California

The Winery Steeplechase is one of the best wineries to follow in Californie.. It offers 23 wines for sale in of California to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Steeplechase wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Steeplechase

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Steeplechase

How Winery Steeplechase wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of chicken, beef and lamb couscous (morocco), lebanese lamb meatball or duck legs with green olives.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Steeplechase

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

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Steeplechase

  • 2013With an average score of 3.48/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.25/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.03/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.03/5
  • 2016With an average score of 2.96/5

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

  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Pinot Noir
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Zinfandel

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 white wines of Winery Steeplechase

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Steeplechase

How Winery Steeplechase wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, spicy food or mushrooms such as recipes of magic cake cheese quiche, baked sea bream or baked dumplings.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Steeplechase

On the nose the white wine of Winery Steeplechase. often reveals types of flavors of oak, microbio. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Steeplechase. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Steeplechase

  • 2012With an average score of 3.57/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.40/5

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

  • Pinot Grigio
  • Chardonnay
  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon blanc

Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Steeplechase

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 Steeplechase.

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.

News about Winery Steeplechase and wines from the region

New Zealand wine producers begin harvest in the wake of cyclone destruction

Last week, Cyclone Gabrielle ripped through the North Island and left a trail of destruction in its wake. Eleven people were killed, dozens more were injured and around 10,000 were left homeless, according to early estimates. Prime minister Chris Hipkins called it the country’s ‘biggest natural disaster’ of the 21st century, and damages are estimated at NZ$13bn (£6.7 bn). Hawke’s Bay and Gisborne are New Zealand’s second and third largest wine producing regions respectively, yielding a combined ...

Hospices de Beaune 2021 auction breaks per-barrel sales records

Despite the lowest number of barrels going under the hammer in 15 years, the 2021 Hospices de Beaune charity auction broke per-barrel price records, reaching an impressive total sales figure of €12.5m (£10.48m/$14.09m), excluding buyer premiums. The total was not too far behind last year’s high tally – close to €13.44 million – where almost double the number of barrels were sold. This year’s sale, with 362 lots, including seven barrels of spirits, reached an average price per lot of €34,980 (£29 ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘Rosé, for the time being, is a pretty babble’

Many wine styles can seem perplexing at first: imagine the first bottle of Barolo if you only know Barossa Shiraz, or the first bottle of Jura Savagnin if you were brought up on California Chardonnay. With time, thought and repeated tasting, though, comes understanding. You learn each wine’s syntax and lexicon, its hints and inferences. You grasp the ways in which each style communicates. Its beauty dawns, then grows. Rosé wine sales grew 23% worldwide between 2002 and 2019. Its fuel has come fr ...

The word of the wine: Vintage (champagne)

It is a champagne made from a single harvest. In principle, we only vintage the great years: 1988, 1990, 1995, 1996... We find more often, now, the very good 2002, and the 2004, a little short.