Winery Sunset Hills - Shenandoah Springs Vineyards Cabernet Franc

Winery Sunset HillsShenandoah Springs Vineyards Cabernet Franc

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Tasters generally liked this wine.
The Shenandoah Springs Vineyards Cabernet Franc of Winery Sunset Hills is a red wine from the region of Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
This wine generally goes well with pork, poultry or beef.

Wine flavors and olphactive analysis

On the nose the Shenandoah Springs Vineyards Cabernet Franc of Winery Sunset Hills in the region of Virginia often reveals types of flavors of non oak, oak or spices and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, black fruit.

Details and technical informations about Winery Sunset Hills's Shenandoah Springs Vineyards Cabernet Franc.

Grape varieties
Region/Great wine region
Great wine region
Style of wine
Alcohol
13.5°
Allergens
Contains sulfites

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.

Last vintages of this wine

Shenandoah Springs Vineyards Cabernet Franc - 2016
In the top 100 of of Shenandoah Valley wines
Average rating: 3.61110.50
Shenandoah Springs Vineyards Cabernet Franc - 2015
In the top 100 of of Shenandoah Valley wines
Average rating: 3.71110.50
Shenandoah Springs Vineyards Cabernet Franc - 2014
In the top 100 of of Shenandoah Valley wines
Average rating: 3.911110
Shenandoah Springs Vineyards Cabernet Franc - 2012
In the top 100 of of Shenandoah Valley wines
Average rating: 3.911110
Shenandoah Springs Vineyards Cabernet Franc - 2011
In the top 100 of of Shenandoah Valley wines
Average rating: 3.411100

The best vintages of Shenandoah Springs Vineyards Cabernet Franc from Winery Sunset Hills are 2014, 2012, 2015, 2016 and 2011.

Informations about the Winery Sunset Hills

The winery offers 28 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is in the top 5 of the best estates in the region
It is located in Shenandoah Valley in the region of Virginia

The Winery Sunset Hills is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 23 wines for sale in the of Shenandoah Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Virginia
In the top 30000 of of United States wines
In the top 300 of of Shenandoah Valley wines
In the top 150000 of red wines
In the top 250000 wines of the world

The wine region of Shenandoah Valley

The wine region of Shenandoah Valley is located in the region of Virginia of United States. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Terre Rouge or the Domaine Early Mountain produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Shenandoah Valley are Chardonnay, Cabernet franc and Riesling, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Shenandoah Valley often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, oak or spices.


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.

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The word of the wine: Persistence

Persistence in the mouth of a wine measured in caudalies.

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