The Winery Baxter of Mendocino County of California

Winery Baxter - Oppenlander Vineyard Pinot Noir
The winery offers 18 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.1.
It is ranked in the top 66 of the estates of California.
It is located in Mendocino County in the region of California

The Winery Baxter is one of the world's great estates. It offers 18 wines for sale in of Mendocino County to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Baxter wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Baxter

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Baxter

How Winery Baxter wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of roasted fillet of beef with parsley, breaded veal cutlets or duckling with bigarrade.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Baxter

On the nose the red wine of Winery Baxter. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, oaky or strawberries and sometimes also flavors of non oak, earth or oak. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Baxter. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Baxter

  • 2013With an average score of 4.32/5
  • 2007With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2016With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.12/5
  • 2010With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.95/5

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

  • Pinot Noir
  • Carignan
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Montepulciano
  • Nebbiolo
  • Zinfandel

Discovering the wine region of Mendocino County

The wine region of Mendocino County is located in the region of North Coast of California of United States. We currently count 344 estates and châteaux in the of Mendocino County, producing 763 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Mendocino County go well with generally quite well with dishes .

The top white wines of Winery Baxter

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Baxter

How Winery Baxter wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of baked bread (tomato, mushroom, ham, cheese), hard-boiled eggs and gourmet muffins or quiche lorraine.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Baxter

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

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Baxter

  • 2015With an average score of 4.10/5

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

  • Chardonnay

Discover the grape variety: Carignan

Mainly cultivated in the Languedoc region, carignan originates from Spain. Because of its very resistant branches, it is often called hardwood. Its bunches are quite large. They are compact and winged with a lignified stalk. The berries are spherical in shape and take on a bluish-black colour. Carignan has a total of 25 approved clones, the best known of which are 274, 65 and 9. The carignan buds at the beginning of June and is protected from spring frosts. It does not reach maturity until the third period. Also, this grape variety needs warmth and sunshine. It appreciates dry and not very fertile soils. Carignan vines can live for more than 100 years. Those that are more than 30 years old produce a better wine. This wine is well coloured. It is generous and powerful at the same time. Pepper, cherry, blackberry, banana, raspberry, almond, prune and violet are some of the aromas that this grape variety gives off.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Baxter

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

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Pinot noir is an important red grape variety in Burgundy and Champagne, and its reputation is well known! Great wines such as the Domaine de la Romanée Conti elaborate their wines from this famous grape variety, and make it a great variety. When properly vinified, pinot noit produces red wines of great finesse, with a wide range of aromas depending on its advancement (fruit, undergrowth, leather). it is also the only red grape variety authorized in Alsace. Pinot Noir is not easily cultivated beyond our borders, although it has enjoyed some success in Oregon, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

News about Winery Baxter and wines from the region

Argentina harvest report 2022: ‘wines with excellent ageing potential’ 

The grapes have been picked and Argentina is able to file another successful harvest for 2022, to match the previous four years. However producers are reporting that 2022 was the most singular of recent vintages, with each region experiencing its own challenges. Mendoza ‘The 2021-2022 season reminds me of a good Hollywood movie,’ said Martín Kaiser, viticulturist at Doña Paula in Mendoza. ‘It certainly kept us entertained. Our hearts were in our mouths all the way through, but it had a great end ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘2021 has been the year of all the miseries’

How’s the weather been this year? Awful. ‘La nature m’écoeure’, one of my wine-growing friends posted on Facebook on 8 April, having been out to look at the frost-crippled shoots on his vines that morning: ‘Nature disgusts me’. It takes a lot to make a wine-grower feel that. He wasn’t alone. Jeremiads echo around the northern hemisphere as 2021 closes. It’s been the year of all the miseries. None suffered more horribly than the growers of Germany’s Ahr valley, where floodwaters caused by the fou ...

In recent years, more and more people have been paying attention to Uruguay’s wine scene thanks to the distinctive identity of its coastal regions, which are swept by winds from the Atlantic Ocean and the Río de la Plata. The country’s proximity to the ocean and one of the largest rivers on the planet means that the vintage effect is quite prominent here. Each harvest depends on the rainfall, sun and strength of the winds experienced that year. Today, Uruguay has around 5,966ha under vine distri ...

The word of the wine: Jeroboam

Bottle with a capacity of 5 litres.