The Winery B. Leighton of Yakima Valley of Washington

Winery B. Leighton
The winery offers 4 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.2.
This estate is part of the Charles Smith.
It is ranked in the top 11 of the estates of Washington.
It is located in Yakima Valley in the region of Washington
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The Winery B. Leighton is one of the world's great estates. It offers 4 wines for sale in of Yakima Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery B. Leighton wines

Looking for the best Winery B. Leighton wines in Yakima Valley among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery B. Leighton 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 B. Leighton wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery B. Leighton

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery B. Leighton

How Winery B. Leighton wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal such as recipes of homemade beef stew, cannelloni with salmon and spinach or osso buco.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery B. Leighton

On the nose the red wine of Winery B. Leighton. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, oak or spices. In the mouth the red wine of Winery B. Leighton. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery B. Leighton

  • 2013With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2016With an average score of 4.14/5
  • 2012With an average score of 4.06/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.00/5

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

  • Mourvedre
  • Grenache
  • Petit Verdot
  • Shiraz/Syrah

Discovering the wine region of Yakima Valley

The wine region of Yakima Valley is located in the region of Columbia Valley of Washington of United States. We currently count 259 estates and châteaux in the of Yakima Valley, producing 759 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Yakima Valley go well with generally quite well with dishes .

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery B. Leighton

Planning a wine route in the of Yakima Valley? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery B. Leighton.

Discover the grape variety: Petit Verdot

Petit Verdot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (southwest). 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. Petit Verdot noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Armagnac.

News about Winery B. Leighton and wines from the region

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Chardonnay

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-Chardonnay, 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/Bourgogne ...

An overview of Saint-Véran appellation

Let’s have a look at Saint-Véran vineyard and discover the magnificent and very diverse landscapes of this appellation situated in the South of Bourgogne. Saint-Véran is one of the 5 Village appellations with Pouilly-Fuissé, Pouilly-Vinzelles, Pouilly-Loché and Viré-Clessé. Like them, it produces only white wines from the Chardonnay grape. What makes it special is that the vineyard is cut in two dinstinct parts by the vineyard of Pouilly-Fuissé. As anywhere else in the vineyard in Bourgogn ...

What are the "Climats de Bourgogne" ?

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The word of the wine: Performance

Quantity of grapes harvested per hectare. In AOC, the average yield is limited on the proposal of the appellation syndicate, validated by the Inao. The use of high-performance plant material (especially clones) and better control of vine diseases have increased yields. This is not without consequences on the quality of the wines (dilution) and on the state of the market (too much wine). We must not over-simplify: low yields are not synonymous with quality, and it is often in years with generous harvests that we find the greatest vintages (1982 and 1986 in Bordeaux, 1996 in Champagne, 1990 and 2005 in Burgundy...).