Winery VinoqueHeathcote Ridge Vineyard Grenache
Red wine
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.
Food and wine pairings with Heathcote Ridge Vineyard Grenache
Pairings that work perfectly with Heathcote Ridge Vineyard Grenache
Original food and wine pairings with Heathcote Ridge Vineyard Grenache
The Heathcote Ridge Vineyard Grenache of Winery Vinoque matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of millet with gruyere cheese or beetroot and potato gratin.
Details and technical informations about Winery Vinoque's Heathcote Ridge Vineyard Grenache.
Discover the grape variety: Frontenac
A cross between Landot 4511 and Vitis Riparia 89 (very resistant to cold) obtained in 1978 at the University of Minnesota (United States) and propagated from 1996. It can also be found in Canada (Quebec, Ontario, etc.), in Lithuania, etc. In France, it is practically unknown. Note that the white and grey Frontenac are derived from mutations of the black, encountered and isolated in 2003 for the grey and in September 2005 for the white. - Synonymy: MN 1047 (for all the grape variety synonyms, click here!).
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Heathcote Ridge Vineyard Grenache from Winery Vinoque are 0, 2016
Informations about the Winery Vinoque
The Winery Vinoque is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 19 wines for sale in the of Heathcote to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Heathcote
The wine region of Heathcote is located in the region of Central Victoria of Victoria of Australia. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Wild Duck Creek Estate or the Domaine Wild Duck Creek Estate produce mainly wines red and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Heathcote are Cabernet franc, Malbec and Vermentino, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Heathcote often reveals types of flavors of cream, cigar or forest floor and sometimes also flavors of aniseed, pencil shavings or dried fruit.
The wine region of Victoria
Victoria is a relatively small but important Australian wine state. Located in the Southeastern corner of the continent, with a generally cool, ocean-influenced Climate, Victorian wine is remarkably diverse, producing all sorts of wines and styles in different climates. In all, the state covers almost 250,000 square kilometres (over 90,000 square miles) of land (almost the same Size as the US state of Texas), well under a quarter the size of its western neighbour, South Australia, and less than a third the size of New South Wales to the North. As such, Victoria's size - and to some extent, the state's viticultural history - can defy generalization.
The word of the wine: Harsh
Term describing the state of tannins with an astringency that lacks finesse.
