The Winery Sunset Hills of Virginia

Winery Sunset Hills
The winery offers 28 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 83 of the estates of Virginia.
It is located in Virginia

The Winery Sunset Hills is one of the world's great estates. It offers 28 wines for sale in of Virginia to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Sunset Hills wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Sunset Hills

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Sunset Hills

How Winery Sunset Hills wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of fondue with broth, flammekueche (with laughing cow) or duck breast in a crust.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Sunset Hills

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

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Sunset Hills

  • 2010With an average score of 4.41/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.88/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.86/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.81/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.80/5

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

  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot
  • Petit Verdot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Tannat

Discovering the wine region of Virginia

Virginia is a state on the eastern seaboard of the United States, located immediately South of Maryland and North of the Carolinas. The state covers 42,750 square miles (110,750 km2) of mountains, valleys and the Atlantic coastal Complex that forms its eastern border. From the Cumberland and Blue Ridge Mountains in the west to the coastal creeks and estuaries in the east, Virginia's topography and geology are varied, to say the least. The landscape around the Chesapeake Bay - a vast coastal inlet that separates the main state from its Eastern Shore - could hardly be more different from that below Mt Rogers (1,750m), 480km to the west.

The Shenandoah Valley is the largest AVA in the country. It stretches for 240 km at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the natural boundary that separates Virginia from West Virginia. The Monticello AVA is the oldest, formed in February 1984 and located around Charlottesville in Central Virginia. It has the honor of being the home of Thomas Jefferson, his extensive French wine collection and the state's first winery.

The top pink wines of Winery Sunset Hills

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Sunset Hills

How Winery Sunset Hills wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of game (deer, venison), spicy food or beef such as recipes of roast duck breast stuffed with porcini mushrooms and chanterelles, chicken curry (like in reunion island) or monkfish with vegetable tagliatelle.

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Winery Sunset Hills

On the nose the pink wine of Winery Sunset Hills. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, red fruit.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Sunset Hills

  • 2014With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.30/5

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

  • Chambourcin
  • Cabernet Franc

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.

The top white wines of Winery Sunset Hills

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Sunset Hills

How Winery Sunset Hills wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of tripe in the style of caen, round zucchini stuffed with tuna or summer tuna quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Sunset Hills

On the nose the white wine of Winery Sunset Hills. often reveals types of flavors of microbio, vegetal or oak and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit or tropical fruit.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Sunset Hills

  • 2012With an average score of 4.12/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.67/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.64/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.56/5

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

  • Chardonnay
  • Traminette
  • Viognier

The word of the wine: Perfume

A pleasant scent most commonly associated with the world of flowers.

The top sweet wines of Winery Sunset Hills

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Sunset Hills

How Winery Sunset Hills wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of game (deer, venison) or spicy food such as recipes of roast deer my grandmother's way or coral lentil dahl.

Organoleptic analysis of sweet wines of Winery Sunset Hills

On the nose the sweet wine of Winery Sunset Hills. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, microbio or oak and sometimes also flavors of dried fruit.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Winery Sunset Hills

  • 2011With an average score of 4.10/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Winery Sunset Hills.

  • Chambourcin

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Sunset Hills

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

Discover the grape variety: Tannat

Tannat is a red grape variety from Béarn which belongs to the cotoïdes family. Present in several vineyards of France, it occupies nearly 3,000 ha. Its leaves are reddish with tan patches. Its bunches are either of normal size or larger. Its berries have a thin skin and are rounded. Its foliage has a swarthy appearance. This variety must be pruned long because it is vigorous. It likes sandy and gravelly soils. Tannat is often exposed to leafhoppers and mites. It is also somewhat susceptible to grey rot. It has 11 approved clones, including 474, 717 and 794. Once mature, this variety produces acidic, fruity, tannic, acidic and full-bodied wines. Various aromas emerge, notably tobacco, cinnamon and exotic wood. Tannat is rarely used alone. It is combined with iron-servadou to obtain a fruitier taste or with cabernet sauvignon to be more rounded.

News about Winery Sunset Hills and wines from the region

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Mancey

Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Mancey, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are available in French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneWine ...

Chablis wines with Joe Fattorini in The Wine Show @Home

In this first episode of a series dedicated to Chablis wines on @The Wine Show @Home, wine expert and TV host Joe Fattorini introduces the vineyards and the wines of Chablis through a tasting of three wines: a Petit Chablis, a Chablis and a Chablis Premier Cru. #PureChablis #BourgogneWines #Chablis ...

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Bray

Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Bray, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are available in French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneWines/ ...

The word of the wine: Perfume

A pleasant scent most commonly associated with the world of flowers.