The Winery Upper Shirley of Virginia

Winery Upper Shirley
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 country cabbage, tuna omelette 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
  • 0With an average score of 3.68/5
  • 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 express veal stew in a pressure cooker, duck breast with orange sauce or vegetable soup with savoy cheese.

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
  • 0With an average score of 3.91/5
  • 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: 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.

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 best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Upper Shirley

  • 0With an average score of 3.80/5

The word of the wine: Mou

Said of a wine unbalanced by its lack of acidity.

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 wild boar stew in burgundy style, veal tagine with carrots or green lentils strasbourg style.

The best vintages in the sparkling wines of Winery Upper Shirley

  • 0With an average score of 3.70/5

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

  • Sangiovese

Discover the grape variety: Traminette

Interspecific crossing between 23416 Joannès Seyve (4.825 Bertille Seyve x 7053 Seibel) and the gewurztraminer obtained in 1965 by Herb Barrett of the University of Illinois (United States) and selected by the Experimental Station of Cornell University in Geneva (United States) In this country, it can be found in many wine-producing regions, as well as in Canada and Germany, but it is virtually unknown in France.

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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.