Winery ClendenenBien Nacido Estate Plantings Petit Verdot
Red wine
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Bien Nacido Estate Plantings Petit Verdot of Winery Clendenen in the region of California often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or vegetal and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or red fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Bien Nacido Estate Plantings Petit Verdot
Pairings that work perfectly with Bien Nacido Estate Plantings Petit Verdot
Original food and wine pairings with Bien Nacido Estate Plantings Petit Verdot
The Bien Nacido Estate Plantings Petit Verdot of Winery Clendenen matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of beef with panang curry (red curry) or crozet cheese with savoy diots.
Details and technical informations about Winery Clendenen's Bien Nacido Estate Plantings Petit Verdot.
Discover the grape variety: Petit Verdot
Dark, full-bodied reds with tight tannins and inky colour, showing aromas of blackberry, violet, gentle spice, liquorice and mentholated balsamic notes. Contributes colour, structure and aromatic freshness to great Médoc blends (Palmer, Léoville-Las Cases) where it remains a minority. Also vinified as a single variety in Spain (La Mancha), California, Australia and Argentina. A late-ripening Bordeaux variety.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Bien Nacido Estate Plantings Petit Verdot from Winery Clendenen are 2012, 0, 2008, 2005 and 2013.
Informations about the Winery Clendenen
The Winery Clendenen is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 35 wines for sale in the of Santa Maria Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Santa Maria Valley
First AVA of Santa Barbara (1981) on an east-west valley swept by Pacific winds: signature Pinot Noir dominant as king red with herbaceous, savoury notes and lifted red fruits, fine acidity and silky tannins. Energetic Chardonnay with tropical and floral aromas, king whites (a third of production). Also Rhône Syrah and Viognier, confidential Grenache and Marsanne. Very cool climate over a long season, a Burgundian and northern-Rhône identity.
The wine region of California
Powerful, sunny reds: dense Napa Cabernet Sauvignon (blackcurrant, chocolate, tobacco, ample tannins), spicy, jammy Zinfandel from the Sierra Foothills, silky red-fruited Pinot Noir on the cool coast (Sonoma, Russian River, Central Coast). Opulent, buttery Chardonnay, notes of yellow fruit and vanilla. Varied climate, from the hot interior to the Pacific-cooled coast. 80% of US production, 139 AVAs including Napa (1st AVA, 1981).
The word of the wine: Texture
In tasting, the equivalent of touch. It is the set of tactile sensations perceived by the mucous membranes of the mouth: silky, velvety, sticky, fatty, astringent, pasty, etc.
