The Winery Upper Shirley of Virginia

Winery Upper Shirley - #2 White
The winery offers 13 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Virginia.
It is located in Virginia

The Winery Upper Shirley is one of the best wineries to follow in Virginie.. It offers 13 wines for sale in of Virginia to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Upper Shirley wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Upper Shirley

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

How Winery Upper Shirley wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of jambalaya (louisiana), sun burger or vegan leek and tofu quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Upper Shirley

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

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Upper Shirley

  • 2014With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.20/5

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

  • Chardonnay
  • Traminette
  • Petit Manseng
  • Sauvignon Blanc

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 red wines of Winery Upper Shirley

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

How Winery Upper Shirley wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, game (deer, venison) or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of roast beef in a foie gras and chanterelle crust, duck fillets with honey or rolled blue cord.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Upper Shirley

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

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Upper Shirley

  • 2017With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.60/5

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

  • Merlot
  • Petit Verdot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Tannat
  • Malbec

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). 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 bunches, and small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.

The top pink wines of Winery Upper Shirley

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Upper Shirley

How Winery Upper Shirley wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Winery Upper Shirley

On the nose the pink wine of Winery Upper Shirley. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit.

The word of the wine: Sabrer (champagne)

A cavalier and folkloric way of opening a bottle of champagne by breaking the neck with a sharp blow given with the top of the blade of a sabre.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Upper Shirley

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Upper Shirley

How Winery Upper Shirley wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or pork such as recipes of baked marrow bones, veal liver in vinegar or stuffed peppers.

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery Upper Shirley.

  • Sangiovese

Discover the grape variety: Malbec

Malbec, a high-yielding red grape variety, produces tannic and colourful wines. It is produced in different wine-growing regions and changes its name according to the grape variety. Called Auxerrois in Cahors, Malbec in Bordeaux, it is also known as Côt. 6,000 hectares of the Malbec grape are grown in France (in decline since the 1950s). Malbec is also very successful in Argentina. The country has become the world's leading producer of Malbec and offers wines with great potential.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Upper Shirley

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 Upper Shirley.

Discover the grape variety: Petit Manseng

Petit Manseng is a white grape variety of Pyrenean origin. Its small berries have a hard, well-ventilated skin, which allows Petit Manseng to resist grey rot. On the other hand, this variety is very sensitive to noble rot, which concentrates the aromas and makes it possible to produce remarkable sweet wines with flavours of exotic fruits, grapefruit, honey, gingerbread, etc. Rich in alcohol and acidity, these wines are very well balanced and very fine. petit manseng also produces fruity dry white wines. It is also used in the AOC Béarn, Jurançon, Pacherenc-du-Vic-Bilh, Tursan...

News about Winery Upper Shirley and wines from the region

Plans to rebuild after wildfire damages rare vines in Crete

Growers in the village of Melambes in Crete saw devastating wildfires cause ‘complete damage to 300 acres (121.4 hectares) of old pre-phylloxera vines’ in July, according to an online crowdfunding page created to support viticulture in the area and help those affected. Although fire burned 90% of the vineyard, it’s hoped some damaged vines can be rescued, said winemaker Iliana Malihin, of her namesake winery and who has spearheaded a community project to revive the site in recent years. Ye ...

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Charnay-les-Mâcon

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-Charnay-les-Mâcon, 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/Bo ...

Hitting the right note

Last year, there was much mirth on wine Twitter about a particularly excruciating tasting note. You’re right. The wine trade needs to get out more. But still… this one was a beauty. It began well enough – really quite beautiful, in fact. But before long the imaginative descriptions were getting more ornate and strained. It moved from poetic to meaningless before finishing with a reference to Burnt Norton – the first of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets – that put it firmly in Private Eye magazine’s ...

The word of the wine: Sabrer (champagne)

A cavalier and folkloric way of opening a bottle of champagne by breaking the neck with a sharp blow given with the top of the blade of a sabre.