The Winery Flying Fox of Monticello of Virginia | Winedexer

Winery Flying Fox
The winery offers 11 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 42 of the estates of Virginia.
It is located in Monticello in the region of Virginia

The Winery Flying Fox is one of the world's great estates. It offers 11 wines for sale in of Monticello to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Flying Fox wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Flying Fox

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Flying Fox

How Winery Flying Fox wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of cabri en colombo with creole sauce, endives with ham (improved) or my grandmother's rabbit stew.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Flying Fox

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

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Flying Fox

  • 2016With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2013With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.84/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.84/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.70/5

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

  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot
  • Petit Verdot

Discovering the wine region of Monticello

Central Virginia AVA around Charlottesville, wine land dreamed by Thomas Jefferson from 1770. Cabernet Franc signature red: elegant and fresh with signature notes of red cherry, raspberry, bell pepper, fresh herbs, spice and peppery touch, fine tannins and thirst-quenching mouth — local reference. Viognier as Virginia's signature white (apricot, honey, flowers), dense Petit Verdot, taut Petit Manseng, ample Chardonnay. Blue Ridge Piedmont soils.

Atlantic style.

The top white wines of Winery Flying Fox

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Flying Fox

How Winery Flying Fox wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, spicy food or mushrooms such as recipes of rabbit with hunter's sauce, fricassee of lambis or wild boar bourguignon.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Flying Fox

On the nose the white wine of Winery Flying Fox. often reveals types of flavors of citrus fruit, non oak or oak and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, earth or floral.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Flying Fox

  • 0With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.40/5

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

  • Viognier
  • Pinot Gris
  • Vidal

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Supple, fragrant reds with fine tannins and vibrant freshness, showing raspberry, violet, green pepper, pencil lead and gentle spice aromas. Star of the Loire as a single variety (Chinon, Bourgueil, Saumur-Champigny) and of the right bank of Bordeaux in blends (Cheval Blanc at 60%). Also in semi-dry Anjou rosés. A historic Bordeaux variety, parent of Cabernet-Sauvignon, Merlot and Carmenère.

The top pink wines of Winery Flying Fox

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Flying Fox

How Winery Flying Fox wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of spaghetti squash bolognese style, italian pasta or rabbit on the barbecue.

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Winery Flying Fox

On the nose the pink wine of Winery Flying Fox. often reveals types of flavors of microbio, red fruit.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Flying Fox

  • 2016With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.90/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Flying Fox.

  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Franc

The word of the wine: Reserve wine (champagne)

Older wines, kept in vats or aged in wood in some houses, or kept in magnums at Bollinger. A small percentage of these wines are used in the blending of non-vintage wines in order to bring greater aromatic complexity.

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

Discover the grape variety: Viognier

Opulent, heady whites, rich and silky, with intense aromas of apricot, yellow peach, mango, violet, honeysuckle and musky, honeyed notes. Discreet acidity, creamy finish. Star of Condrieu AOC and Château-Grillet AOC, co-vinified in Côte-Rôtie with Syrah (up to 20%). Widely exported to California (Central Coast), Australia (Eden Valley) and Languedoc. A Rhône variety.