Time for Harvest Pairings
We’re here to provide a guide for pairing Umbriaso wines to foods that will enhance the carefully cultivated flavors. For recipe ideas and tasting guides, check back here often to get the latest ideas on the best ways to drink and enjoy your wine.
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2020 Alta Vecchia Vite Rosato
This Napa Valley Rosé is blended from old (circa 1914), high elevation (1,845 ft) Zinfandel vines on Howell Mountain. Volcanic soil fosters a crisp acidity that refreshes while balancing citrus across the palate. Growing above the fog line supports a full and mature ripening without singeing the fruit. Blended with Syrah (2.5%) and Sangiovese (2.5%) to showcase robust color, subtle cherry, strawberry, and floral aromas, and balance acidity.
Pairing Idea:
With notes of honeyed cherry and strawberry, this Rosé is lovely on the nose and eye and food versatile. Perfect with prosciutto, fried calamari, seared tuna, pheasant, freshly shucked oysters and mignonette, or Toulouse and Provencal sausage.
2022 Bianco Altopiano
This Sauvignon Blanc grows on a 2,400-foot plateau in one of the highest AVAs in California. It’s the last white wine fruit we pick each year. This, the vineyard’s altopiano (plateau) aspect, and its volcanically rich Mayacamas soil deliver a mature, refreshing, light-bodied wine.
Pairing Idea:
Bright and crisp with balanced notes of mineral and citrus, this wine is your oyster pairing go-to! Also enjoy with hard cheeses, pita and hummus, and sour dough with olive tapenade.
2017 Benchmark Tuscan Blend
California Sangiovese (Solano) and Syrah (Sonoma) combine to create an elegant table wine in a classic Super Tuscan style. Ray Teldeschi’s Syrah supports the Sangiovese fruit with color, character, and Dry Creek terroir. Aged in neutral French Oak, with 1/4 of the Syrah in extractive French Oak.
Pairing Idea:
More body and complexity than a Chianti, yet light enough to pair with dry cheeses, tomato pastas, grilled fish steaks and fowl.
“Umbriaso’s lightly-oaked ‘Super Tuscan’ blend of Sangiovese from Amador County and Syrah from Sonoma was impressively fresh and well-blended.”
– SF Chronicle December 2018
2017 Bradford Mountain Field Blend
Zinfandel, Petite Syrah, Syrah, and Carignan. Blended in the field and co-fermented in time-honored Italian fashion. Hints of black cherry softened by French Oak (neutral) and Sangiovese to balance acidity. Exceptionally dry weather ripened this fruit memorably. Crafted to express the Bradford Mountain terroir. This Zinfandel blend is medium-bodied with a soulful tannin finish.
Pairing Idea:
Serve winningly with turkey meatballs & cranberry relish, grilled rosemary & garlic loin cuts, or a sausage, onion, & peppers platter.
2019 Dry Creek Valley Syrah
Its renowned manzanita loam and dramatic microclimates have an undeniable impact on the vineyards that rise above Dry Creek Valley. Here the terroir supports a long ripening period. Harvested from a bench block that Ray Teldeschi planted mere decades ago, this Syrah exhibits the maturity of privileged place. This garnet red wine was aged in neutral and new French Oak. It delivers supple tannins and subtle black cherry fruit with a soft, cacao grace note, all in an Old World profile (13.1% alc).
Pairing Idea:
This versatile wine complements olive tapenade on sourdough, warm falafel and hummus, pizza, baked sea bass, or slow-cooked pot roasts
2018 Heritage Zinfandel
These vines were planted in a rolling bench on Ray Teldeschi’s heritage Sonoma vineyard in the 1890s. They count among the oldest Zinfandel rootstock in California. Crafted in Old World fashion (13.5% alcohol) to honor this unique Dry Creek Valley fruit and terroir. Maturation is guided by meticulous post-veraison pruning. Neither jammy nor ‘hot,’ this 100% Zinfandel is remarkably smooth with a subtle tannin finish.
Pairing Idea:
Pair with slow-cooked savory ribs, meatballs, or eggplant parmigiana.
2019 Cabernet Franc
A classic component of Bordeaux and Meritage blends, this Dunnsden Vineyard Cab Franc distinguishes itself as a fine wine in its own right. The quartzite-rich volcanic soil of Chalk Hill is renowned for delivering textbook French character. Chalk Hill rises above the fog-prone Russian River Valley into a jumble of knolls with extended sunny days and moderating cool breezes that encourage smooth ripening. Dunnsden is a practicing organic vineyard.
A boysenberry note highlights a long smooth finish. Structured to enjoy now with choice cuisine and to age well.
Pairing Ideas:
Manchego cheese, hard fennel salami, roasted fowl, or pasta with braised wild boar ragù.
2018 Rhôndeaux
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A unique blend of Old-World style Bordeaux (Cabernet Sauvignon & Merlot) and Rhône (Syrah) varietals from distinguished Sonoma AVAs. The Pine Mountain-Cloverdale Peak Cabernet and Kenwood Merlot add delightful blackberry and licorice notes to the (white pepper, black cherry) Dry Creek Valley Syrah. Long, precociously smooth finish. Decant for 30 minutes and let the celebration begin. Or lay it down; this one is structured to age smoothly, deeply. Pairing Idea: Broiled lamb skewers with Baby Arugula*. *William ‘Fly’ O’Meara recipe suggestion. November 2021. |
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