The Winery Mackinaw Valley Vineyard of Illinois

Winery Mackinaw Valley Vineyard - Sauvignon Blanc
The winery offers 12 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 373 of the estates of Illinois.
It is located in Illinois

The Winery Mackinaw Valley Vineyard is one of the best wineries to follow in Illinois.. It offers 12 wines for sale in of Illinois to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Mackinaw Valley Vineyard wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Mackinaw Valley Vineyard

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Mackinaw Valley Vineyard

How Winery Mackinaw Valley Vineyard wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or goat cheese such as recipes of mussel clusters, tuna, pepper and tomato quiche or vegetable spaghetti flan.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Mackinaw Valley Vineyard.

  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discovering the wine region of Illinois

Illinois is a U. S. state located South of the Great Lakes region and bordered by Missouri to the west and Indiana to the east. The state is one of the fastest-growing wine producers in the United States; the number of wineries doubled in the late 1990s and now stands at over 100.

Illinois covers 150,000 square kilometers (58,000 square miles) between latitudes 36°N and 42°N, similar to northern California. However, the unpredictable and often Harsh winters of the Midwest mean that viticulture is not as widespread as in the key Californian regions of Napa Valley and Sonoma County. Most Illinois vineyards are located in the south, where they can take advantage of slightly warmer temperatures and increased exposure to sunlight. Illinois has a Long and successful wine-growing history dating back to the mid-19th century, when settlers planted grapes along the banks of the Mississippi River to make wine.

By the turn of the century, Illinois was the fourth largest wine-producing state in the United States. Like many states, this thriving wine industry was devastated by the advent of Prohibition in 1920, when most of Illinois' vineyards were uprooted in favor of grain crops.

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Discover the grape variety: Macabeu

The white Macabeu is a grape variety originating from Spain. It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by large bunches, and grapes of large to medium size. Macabeu Blanc can be found in many vineyards: South West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Languedoc & Roussillon, Rhone Valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

News about Winery Mackinaw Valley Vineyard and wines from the region

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Milly-Lamartine

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-Milly-Lamartine, 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/Bour ...

Major Champagne merger for Nicolas Feuillatte to go ahead

Nearly 9% of Champagne’s vineyard area will be covered by the merger between Centre Vinicole – Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte and the Coopérative Régionale des Vins de Champagne (CRVC), which includes the Champagne Castelnau label. A deal was delayed earlier in 2021, but the merger has now been approved by the two companies’ extraordinary general assemblies. It is expected to be effective from 31 December. Together, the two groups will create a new cooperative, ‘Terroirs et Vigne ...

Rethinking the wine bottle for the future

There’s been a focus on making wine production less energy intensive as well as environmentally friendly in order to address climate change. The efforts continue but, as is the case for electric cars where it’s the battery technology that needs innovating, it’s in wine bottles where we’re seeing rapid change. It comes in a two-pronged attack to reduce energy use in manufacturing and then an even bigger emphasis on reducing bottle weight for shipping to reduce fuel usage and thus CO2 production. ...

The word of the wine: N-M

Negociant-manipulant. Company that buys grapes, sometimes in addition to its own vineyard, elaborates and markets its champagne. Most of the big brands like Moët or Taittinger are N-M.

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