The Winery The Hilt of Santa Barbara County of California

Winery The Hilt
The winery offers 21 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.1.
This estate is part of the Jonata.
It is ranked in the top 34 of the estates of California.
It is located in Santa Barbara County in the region of California

The Winery The Hilt is one of the world's great estates. It offers 21 wines for sale in of Santa Barbara County to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery The Hilt wines

Looking for the best Winery The Hilt wines in Santa Barbara County among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery The Hilt 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 The Hilt wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery The Hilt

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery The Hilt

How Winery The Hilt wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or poultry such as recipes of veal with chestnut and pietra (corsican beer), summer orecchiette or peach and apricot chicken (about 270 calories).

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery The Hilt

On the nose the red wine of Winery The Hilt. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit, non oak or earth and sometimes also flavors of microbio, vegetal or oak. In the mouth the red wine of Winery The Hilt. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery The Hilt

  • 2010With an average score of 4.26/5
  • 2016With an average score of 4.23/5
  • 2012With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.18/5
  • 2009With an average score of 4.17/5
  • 2013With an average score of 4.17/5

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

  • Pinot Noir

Discovering the wine region of Santa Barbara County

Californian star of cool climates (Central Coast): signature Pinot Noir as king of reds on the cool AVAs (Sta. Rita Hills, Santa Maria Valley) — fine and mineral with notes of cherry, raspberry, undergrowth, orange peel and spice, Burgundy-style acidity. Taut Chardonnay (citrus, apple, gunflint). Fleshy Syrah (Ballard Canyon).

6 AVAs, east-west valleys letting in Pacific fog — cool-to-warm gradient. Popularised by Sideways.

The top white wines of Winery The Hilt

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery The Hilt

How Winery The Hilt wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, shellfish or vegetarian such as recipes of stuffed tomatoes, shrimp marinade or quiche lorraine.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery The Hilt

On the nose the white wine of Winery The Hilt. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, oak or tree fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery The Hilt. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery The Hilt

  • 2017With an average score of 4.12/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2016With an average score of 4.07/5
  • 0With an average score of 4.03/5
  • 2013With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.95/5

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

  • Chardonnay

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Elegant reds, light in colour with silky tannins, showing strawberry, cherry and raspberry aromas, evolving to forest floor, mushroom and spice with age. Fresh acidity, delicate finish. Star of the Côte d'Or (Romanée-Conti, Chambertin, Volnay), pillar of Champagne (Blanc de Noirs) and signature of Oregon, Central Otago and Sonoma Coast. An early-ripening Burgundian variety, one of the world's greatest.

The top sparkling wines of Winery The Hilt

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery The Hilt

How Winery The Hilt wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, appetizers and snacks or lean fish such as recipes of pasta with mussels, cream of asparagus soup in verrines or fideuà (spain).

Organoleptic analysis of sparkling wines of Winery The Hilt

On the nose the sparkling wine of Winery The Hilt. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit.

The best vintages in the sparkling wines of Winery The Hilt

  • 0With an average score of 3.50/5

The word of the wine: Servadou iron

A black grape variety from the southwest that produces a wine with spicy tannins and black currant and raspberry aromas. Under the name of Mansois, it is the main grape variety of Marcillac; it is also one of the important varieties of Gaillacois, where it is called Braucol. It is also used in the blends of other South-Western appellations (Fronton, Lavilledieu, Estaing, Madiran). Syn.: braucol, pinenc, mansois.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery The Hilt

Planning a wine route in the of Santa Barbara County? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery The Hilt.

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

Whites with many faces: mineral and taut at Chablis (lemon, green apple, flint), opulent and buttery at Meursault and Puligny-Montrachet (hazelnut, brioche, yellow fruits), tense and chalky in Champagne (Blanc de Blancs). Also vinified sparkling and widely exported (Sonoma, Margaret River, Casablanca). A Burgundian variety, a cross of Pinot Noir × Gouais Blanc, half-sibling of Aligoté.