The Winery Valley Road Vineyards of Virginia

Winery Valley Road Vineyards
The winery offers 14 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.1.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Virginia.
It is located in Virginia

The Winery Valley Road Vineyards is one of the best wineries to follow in Virginie.. It offers 14 wines for sale in of Virginia to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Valley Road Vineyards wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Valley Road Vineyards

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Valley Road Vineyards

How Winery Valley Road Vineyards wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of authentic bolognese sauce (ragù di carne), bare-assed cockerel (ardennes) or duck casserole with turnips.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Valley Road Vineyards

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

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Valley Road Vineyards

  • 2015With an average score of 4.00/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Valley Road Vineyards.

  • Cabernet Franc
  • Petit Verdot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Chambourcin

Discovering the wine region of Virginia

Virginia is a state on the eastern seaboard of the United States, located immediately South of Maryland and North of the Carolinas. The state covers 42,750 square miles (110,750 km2) of mountains, valleys and the Atlantic coastal Complex that forms its eastern border. From the Cumberland and Blue Ridge Mountains in the west to the coastal creeks and estuaries in the east, Virginia's topography and geology are varied, to say the least. The landscape around the Chesapeake Bay - a vast coastal inlet that separates the main state from its Eastern Shore - could hardly be more different from that below Mt Rogers (1,750m), 480km to the west.

The Shenandoah Valley is the largest AVA in the country. It stretches for 240 km at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the natural boundary that separates Virginia from West Virginia. The Monticello AVA is the oldest, formed in February 1984 and located around Charlottesville in Central Virginia. It has the honor of being the home of Thomas Jefferson, his extensive French wine collection and the state's first winery.

The top white wines of Winery Valley Road Vineyards

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Valley Road Vineyards

How Winery Valley Road Vineyards wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of stuffed pumpkin, tuna omelette or leek, goat cheese and bacon quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Valley Road Vineyards

On the nose the white wine of Winery Valley Road Vineyards. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Valley Road Vineyards

  • 2015With an average score of 3.76/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Valley Road Vineyards.

  • Chardonnay
  • Viognier
  • Petit Manseng
  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discover the grape variety: Tannat

Tannat is a red grape variety from Béarn which belongs to the cotoïdes family. Present in several vineyards of France, it occupies nearly 3,000 ha. Its leaves are reddish with tan patches. Its bunches are either of normal size or larger. Its berries have a thin skin and are rounded. Its foliage has a swarthy appearance. This variety must be pruned long because it is vigorous. It likes sandy and gravelly soils. Tannat is often exposed to leafhoppers and mites. It is also somewhat susceptible to grey rot. It has 11 approved clones, including 474, 717 and 794. Once mature, this variety produces acidic, fruity, tannic, acidic and full-bodied wines. Various aromas emerge, notably tobacco, cinnamon and exotic wood. Tannat is rarely used alone. It is combined with iron-servadou to obtain a fruitier taste or with cabernet sauvignon to be more rounded.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Valley Road Vineyards

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Valley Road Vineyards

How Winery Valley Road Vineyards wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beer goulash, stuffed peppers or rabbit with mushrooms.

Organoleptic analysis of sparkling wines of Winery Valley Road Vineyards

On the nose the sparkling wine of Winery Valley Road Vineyards. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit.

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery Valley Road Vineyards.

  • Petit Verdot
  • Tannat
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot

The word of the wine: Extraction

All the methods (pumping over, punching down) that allow the colour and tannins to be extracted from the grape skin during maceration, before fermentation begins. It is also possible to macerate after fermentation, but gently, so as not to extract the tannins from the seeds, which are greener. Because of its solvent power, alcohol favours extraction.

The top pink wines of Winery Valley Road Vineyards

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Valley Road Vineyards

How Winery Valley Road Vineyards wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef enchilladas au gratin or duck confit parmentier.

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Winery Valley Road Vineyards

On the nose the pink wine of Winery Valley Road Vineyards. often reveals types of flavors of citrus fruit, red fruit.

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Valley Road Vineyards.

  • Merlot

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Valley Road Vineyards

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

Discover the grape variety: Petit Manseng

Petit Manseng is a white grape variety of Pyrenean origin. Its small berries have a hard, well-ventilated skin, which allows Petit Manseng to resist grey rot. On the other hand, this variety is very sensitive to noble rot, which concentrates the aromas and makes it possible to produce remarkable sweet wines with flavours of exotic fruits, grapefruit, honey, gingerbread, etc. Rich in alcohol and acidity, these wines are very well balanced and very fine. petit manseng also produces fruity dry white wines. It is also used in the AOC Béarn, Jurançon, Pacherenc-du-Vic-Bilh, Tursan...

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The word of the wine: Extraction

All the methods (pumping over, punching down) that allow the colour and tannins to be extracted from the grape skin during maceration, before fermentation begins. It is also possible to macerate after fermentation, but gently, so as not to extract the tannins from the seeds, which are greener. Because of its solvent power, alcohol favours extraction.