Although there are vineyards in almost every state in the United States, California outranks all others by a lot and its production can also be assessed globally. In fact, California is the world's number 4 in the series production of the wine producers with a total of 2 billion liters per year, just after Italy, France and Spain. In addition, one of the most diverse wine-producing regions of the world for its capacity of nearly 100 wines of different qualities. Some ofmost popular wines include:
* Merlot
* Pinot Noir
* Cabernet Sauvignon
* Shiraz
* Zinfandel
* Chardonnay
* Sauvignon Blanc
Within the state there are about 4,500 wine grape growers, and a proof of the greatness and importance of the wine industry in California. In 2006, the California wine industry, for $ $ 51.8 billion economic impact and had been on their a $ $ 125.3 billion impact on the United States. The wine industryCalifornia is by far the most profitable of any other area in the U.S. and their wine among the first in quality around the world.
North Coast, Sierra Foothills, Central Coast, Central Valley and Southern California: Because of different growing conditions in the state of California wine regions are growing in five major areas separately. Each of these regions can be further divided into sub-regions called names (often counties) divided that many people whoare not even aware of the wine is easily recognized names such as Napa, Sonoma and San Joaquin Valley. If a wine label contains a particular name, this means that at least 75 percent of the grapes into wine grown in the region. Wine labels can be used to rank two or three calls to the different grapes into wine, especially if the percentages are also indicated.
The climate in California, the field varies from region to regionwhich allows high production of different types of grapes grown well in many different varieties results. Elements of the climate, the cool breeze, cold offshore vineyards of Sonoma County, are extremely important for the growth conditions for the specific needs of different grapes.
They are the most important grape in the wine region of California, produces Chardonnay and Cabernet, although many other varieties of the region are a mass popular pinotnoir. The wine region of California has a good reputation for producing a high quality wine in a relaxed atmosphere with friends, like his biggest fan would like it to be enjoyed.
Merlot
Merlot is a popular thin-skinned red grape variety that probably descended from Cabernet Franc and was recorded in Italy in 1832. It 'is used for the purposes of the merger by the wine region of Bordeaux in France and also inspired the production of straight varietal wine. Inyear 1990 witnessed a great Merlot in particular boost in popularity and has become the new trendy wine, but its popularity has staying power. In 2003 there were over 50,000 acres in California alone, with the Merlot grape.
Some of the highest quality Merlot is from Bordeaux, in France, Napa Valley, Sonoma, Chile and Washington State. These areas are the historic plantations of Merlot in the land of better quality, which is increased in a Merlot that led toperfect for mixing and less suitable for their species. The taste of a Merlot depends on the type of terrain where it is grown. For example, Merlot and clay from the pot as the soil results in a smooth, velvety wine. Merlot grown in mountainous regions tend to taste like Cabernet Sauvignon.
Merlot many tend to have a taste reminiscent of Cabernet Sauvignon, but it is less acid by a thin skin of grapes and before maturity. TheIt often has a variety of flavors such as currants, plums, black cherries, caramel, cloves, bay leaf, pepper, olive and purple. And 'low-tannin wine drinkers and many believe it is smooth and easy drinking, red grapes.
When mixed, the Merlot is often combined with Cabernet Sauvignon to taste the flavors and the strength of each species results in a mixture with the best of both worlds balance. Another advantage of Merlot and Merlot / CabernetSauvignon blends is that the costs are often much less than the full-bodied Sauvignon Cabert itself.
Although many red wine drinkers think it should be served at room temperature right, Merlot should be served in fact a few degrees below room temperature, as can sometimes develop taste less pleasant around 74 degrees Fahrenheit. Chilling for a few minutes you will ensure that the wine is slightly cooler and the best possible result inFlavors.
Since merlot is not as rich as some other red varieties, it is still quite flexible in its simple combinations with many popular dinner choices. Because it is a medium-bodied wine will pair well with veal, meatloaf, sausages and hearty pasta dishes.
Pinot Noir
Thanks to the recent film Sideways Pinot Noir has been widely acclaimed by the general population to drink wine in recent years and multiplied dramatically in popularity. Theoriginated in the Burgundy wine region of France, but has now spread all over the world, are completely different wine regions, which include almost all wine regions. Despite its popularity around the world of Pinot Noir is among the most difficult to maintain efficient as complicated and difficult to present in relation to the prevention of mutations of the grapes or other unwanted fluctuations that result in undesirable changes in taste or other properties of control is ingrapes.
Pinot Noir reaches its culmination in the development of flavor when grown in cooler wine regions and has never been the level of precision and perfection in the development, since he reached his home in the wine region of Burgundy. However, all Pinot Noir wines usually a light red color, ranging from cherry to plum. They also have a fragrant scent includes notes of cherry, violets, berries and spices. Like most other wines, Pinot Noir to develop a greaterThe complexity of flavors as it ages. Aging can remember aromas of leather and mushroom size contribute to the taste of wine.
Pinot Noir is usually a light to medium body, as they have a very delicate grape variety, which often have fine silky tannins.
The Pinot Noir grapes, and notoriously difficult to grow, efficiently, and it becomes difficult to maintain consistency in winemaking. To change the wine growers strugglePinot Noir process of finding the best way to highlight the delicate flavor and the structural aspects of this variety. For example, manufacturers need care the aging of the great Pinot Noir can be worn with oak barrels, because the woody aromas can easily overcome the natural weakness in the balanced flavors of Pinot Noir. Lots of Pinot Noir can be mixed together in a way that masks imperfections due to changes in the production of wine or weaknessinherent in the grapes themselves.
When pairing wine with food Pinot Noir, go on, easy on the spices, or the delicate aromas of Pinot Noir is drowned. Salmon is one of the best pairings for Pinot Noir because the flavors are both quite easy, but with a complexity that compliments the contrary, quite good.
Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet is a term that includes several different varieties: Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc, Cabernet above. CabernetSauvignon is a very popular grape variety that originated from crossing the grape vine Cabernet Franc Sauvignon Blanc developed. In fact, the Cabernet Sauvignon is the most cultivated variety in the regions more red wine in the world and in particular wine region in France Boudreaux. In other parts of the world, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet is also known as Petit, Sauvignon Rouge and called Vidur, so it's important to keep in mind these principles when they are abroad.
OverCabernet Sauvignon in 1960 was the most popular grape variety for red wines because of its effect term and wide critical acclaim. Why is there so much in demand in many circles of wine, the Cabernet Sauvignon slight increase in cost inflation, demand from wealthy wine lovers driving prices subject to audit. On the other hand, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, the parent company is less popular because it is less desirable than its grape grape seeds. However, it is quiteoften used as a blending varietal wines, primarily with Merlot. A general tip for the most novice wine drinkers is that most bottled wines labeled Cabernet Sauvignon Cabernet family belong, instead of Cabernet Franc.
Cabernet Sauvignon grow best in areas with growing seasons, with a warm climate and maturity very late in the season. It grows well in arid areas with well drained soil lightly. These elements allowCabernet Sauvignon, ripe fruity taste, rather than the taste of herbs that comes from the grape growing and excessive moisture of the soil-based nutrients during the growing season. The grapes themselves are relatively small, with a rugged outer shell that protects the grapes from many elements. They are much more resistant to disease and can be regarded as fairly robust vine.
Cabernet Sauvignon is also one of the best vintages. It istraditionally in small oak barrels for up to 18 months before bottling in old age. This maturation of the wine can develop a greater depth and complexity of flavors in it. Some of the varieties that are most commonly attributed to Cabernet Sauvignon: dark cherry, black currant, olive oil, red pepper, cedar and tobacco. Cabernet Sauvignon is also sometimes spicy and earthy flavor profiles.
Syrah - Shiraz
Shiraz represents about a fifth of all wineGrape production in Australia and is one of the most grapes in the country. Despite the popularity of rival intense Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz Red secondary status in the minds of consumers, accounted for wine in recent years, many producers are to revitalize their Shiraz with new styles and methods of premature aging.
The Shiraz grape has an interesting history and place in the contemporary world of wine as well. Generally described as the "New World" wines,These wines are usually assumed to be more fruity flavors predominate in her, unlike the "old world" wines, which are often labeled Syrah can be. Since both types of grapes for wine are derived from the same genetic differences between them are minimal to say the least expressed. Some wine suppliers even claim that the distinction between Shiraz and Syrah only in terms of style preferences.
However, South Africa, Canada and Australia, the three main growing regionsfocusing on this variety of wine Shiraz Syrah instead. To keep these regions to identify their exports to the trend with the classification of New World wine of Shiraz, which is so identified as a lighter and more aggressive style, fruity wine.
The Shiraz grape is often used in the production of red table wine, the age typically used well. Shiraz often reach their complexity of flavor after about the first 10 or 15 years of aging, but can be easilymuch earlier in the process of aging, without having used his excellent taste. It 'also commonly used as a blending wine, although this occurs primarily in regions of Spain.
Shiraz wines are full bodied and very distinctive flavors vary slightly depending on the physical properties of the wine region of its production. Some of the varieties most commonly due to Shiraz wines: blackberry, chocolate, black pepper, plums and spices. Shiraz also has soft tannins andvarious degrees of oak flavors. They thrive particularly in the wine regions of Australia with cooler, dry climate, which allow for the surface of berries. Other Shiraz grapes grown in warmer climates tend to include soft plum flavors.
Despite its frequent association of the new world of wine, Shiraz is one of the oldest known wine varieties of grapes. In fact, is named for the city with the same name in Iran, where winemaking may have originated thousands of yearsago.
Zinfandel
Zinfandel is often less than reputation among more discerning wine drinkers, as has recently made quite a reputation for "wine starter", especially for women, famous for its sweet taste in the years 1980 and '90. But in recent years, growers of this prejudice against Zinfandel improving the complexity and balance of flavors in their wines to make them react to a more palatable choice for the wine savvyConsumer sophisticated sense of taste.
What makes a wine more interesting for lovers of wine? Complexity and richness of the flavors are some of the most important aspects of a well made wine. In Zinfanfels are some of the qualities popularly described flavors of blackberry, raspberry, cherry, cloves, black pepper and anise. However, depending on the complexity of Zinfandel, can lead to many other layers of flavors, including a wine tasting, where you give carefulAttention to the subtleties in the whole experience of wine released. Another interesting feature of Zinfandel, is that often with others, such as Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah, Petite mixed.
From full-bodied wines range of lighter white to red Zinfandel quite robust, are not rules for the benefit of what foods to pair them. Zinfandel Some do not have enough body and the presence of flavors, with abundant drink with a steak or rich chocolate desserts. The TinderboxZinfandel can be a good pair for Latin America and tropical-inspired dishes.
Zinfandel comes from a typical American Zinfandel grapes, red grapes, which are both red and white Zinfandel. Formally designated in 1832 Zinfandel are traditionally defined as an American species and can sometimes be quite difficult to find overseas markets. It 'was recently discovered that grape vine Zinfandel is genetically identical to Primotivo from' Italy. ThisDiscovery begins, explains the unknown heirs of Zinfandel grape development.
California wineries have come to embrace as its Zinfandel variety of grapes feature, Zinfandel is what the call to become a graphic representation and branding for wine of California. Some of the most important for the production of Zinfandel are: Napa Valley, Sonoma, Mendocino, Lake, Central Valley, Bay Area, Sierra Foothills and Southern California. However, the Zinfandel isare not limited to California and is in the farthest parts of America North Carolina and Tennessee as well as abroad, for the Zinfandel grape has been produced for export.
Chardonnay
Chardonnay has become the most popular white wine in America in recent decades. The reasons for this are many. The first is that a taste Chardonnay by far the most interesting are often composed of fruit and buttery notes have the full-bodied. Thanks to its versatility, the wine,can have many different variations of flavors and can also chardonnay wine mixed with other varieties as a way for new flavors mixed with the wine experience. One of the other main reasons for its popularity is that it is widespread and can be very convenient for the small, robust Chardonnay resistance to many diseases, and therefore easier to grow in many conditions. So, the question of chardonnay easy to fill, despite the fact that Chardonnayare more sensitive during the development of wine production.
Some of the most distinctive features of this popular wine knows that it is often very dry and full bodied with flavors most commonly mentioned distinct descriptions and aromas of Chardonnay are apple, melon, pear, lemon and pineapple, as well as butter, nuts, cream, vanilla, wood and citrus. In particular, when the Chardonnay is aged in oak casks, it develops a quality of toast with butter ora taste of vanilla or coconut to the depth of the riches in the experience sampling added. Many types of Chardonnay cheaper, trying to get the flavor of oak, used steel barrels with oak chips, to reduce production costs while maintaining similar flavors and textures in their wines.
Chardonnay is one of the most cultivated grapes in the wine region of California, but also to thrive in Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Chile and South Africa. In 2000, Chardonnayaccounted for 40 percent of the total number of white grapes grown in California's wine regions and can thrive in many regions with climatic conditions clearly distinguishable. French chardonnay and reputation are of the highest quality and in fact, in the Chablis region of France, Chardonnay is the only permitted grape varieties.
Chardonnay today are subject to less public than fermentation in oak preferred versions are lighter and sharper than it has movedVine. The reason for this preference may be seen as a return from the past decades in which all Chardonnay were so strong with aging, malolactic fermentation and other techniques that began to lose its distinctive flavor characteristic Chardonnay, processed.
Sauvignon Blanc
Sauvignon Blanc is currently very popular white wine grape. California Sauvignon Blanc is sometimes called Fumé Blanc called. The growth of Sauvignon Blancincludes nearly 14,000 acres in California alone. Sauvignon Blanc is grown in regions such as South Africa, New Zealand, Chile, Italy, France, Australia and even in surprising areas such as Canada and Iceland Long, New York City grew.
Sauvignon Blanc is often considered the best white wine for food combinations, like so many bright, the flavor is optimized aggressively for food. And 'particularly important for foods that contain components such as peppers, garlic, coriander, smoked well matchedCheese and tomatoes, the food that normally would completely overwhelm even the strongest taste of Chardonnay are in addition to many other dry white wines.
The Sauvignon Blanc has a unique flavor that makes them easily recognizable than other white wines. Perfumes are classified as herbaceous, rather like lemon grass, gooseberries and freshly cut grass. But it also has some other traditional dishes such as green melon, grapefruit, passionFruits and peppers. Total Sauvignon Blanc is a strong, tangy and spicy grape variety, which predominates in many other white wines intensity and sharpness of the flavors.
Unlike many other varieties, Sauvignon Blanc is often in oak barrels, because she often travels unfavorable combination of flavors. However Sauvignon are often mixed, which is a technique that soothes occasional abrasive flavor. Mixing with Semillon Sauvignon Blanc (another wineVariety grown mainly in France) is a popular practice, especially in the legendary French wine region Boudreaux, such as the Semillon adds a cool flavor and makes the overall flavor profile of Sauvignon Blanc. The ratio of Semillon blended with Sauvignon Blanc goes beyond the region and occurs mainly in France. But some versions are included with 70 percent and 30 percent Semillon Sauvignon Blanc and other varieties are almost the inverse ratio of 75 percent SauvignonBlanc and Semillon 15 percent. These blends are a perfect choice for wine drinkers, who enjoy some of the flavors of Sauvignon Blanc, but find a little 'too aggressive for their tastes.
Since Sauvignon Blanc is not yet as popular with many cousins drink wine more popular to consumers, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc are a lot cheaper. Together with its perfection in many foods difficult to pair the right combination is a great Sauvignon BlancChoice for a dinner-party variety.
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