The Winery Upper Eden of Santa Lucia Highlands of California

Winery Upper Eden
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 38 of the estates of California.
It is located in Santa Lucia Highlands in the region of California

The Winery Upper Eden is one of the world's great estates. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Santa Lucia Highlands to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Upper Eden wines

Looking for the best Winery Upper Eden wines in Santa Lucia Highlands among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Upper Eden 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 Upper Eden wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Upper Eden

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Upper Eden

How Winery Upper Eden wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of steamed pork chops, tuna and mayonnaise onigiri or tuna, pepper and tomato quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Upper Eden

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

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Upper Eden

  • 2016With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.50/5

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

  • Chardonnay

Discovering the wine region of Santa Lucia Highlands

Narrow AVA on the western slope of the Salinas Valley in Monterey (1992, ~5,000 ac): signature dominant Pinot Noir as king red (3,400 ac) — refined, taut reds with red fruits, silky and spicy, saline freshness. Chardonnay (2,100 ac) as a lively, mineral king white with notes of citrus and stone fruits. Syrah in warmer sheltered canyons, fleshy and peppery. Daily fogs from Monterey Bay lengthen the season, a premium fresh Burgundian and Rhone identity.

The top red wines of Winery Upper Eden

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Upper Eden

How Winery Upper Eden wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of roast beef casserole, bites of cheese or aiguillette of duck with honey.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Upper Eden

On the nose the red wine of Winery Upper Eden. 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 red wine of Winery Upper Eden. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Upper Eden

  • 2013With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.60/5

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

  • Pinot Noir

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.

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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.