The wine region of Entre-deux-Mers-Haut-Benauge is located in the region of Entre-deux-Mers of Bordeaux of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Olivier Cailleux or the Château Ferran produce mainly wines white and red. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Entre-deux-Mers-Haut-Benauge are Muscadelle, Semidano and Cabernet franc, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Entre-deux-Mers-Haut-Benauge often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, citrus fruit or lychee and sometimes also flavors of hay, stone or lemon.
In the mouth of Entre-deux-Mers-Haut-Benauge is a powerful. We currently count 11 estates and châteaux in the of Entre-deux-Mers-Haut-Benauge, producing 12 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Entre-deux-Mers-Haut-Benauge go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, vegetarian or poultry.
When I first visited Bordeaux, the sleepy landscape of turreted stone châteaux and vineyards seemed timeless, with traditions so well established you felt they would go on forever. But new energy in this famous wine region is visible and audible: bees buzz and sheep graze in organic vineyards; brand-new cellars brim with sustainable features and wine fermenting in trendy amphorae; unusual grapes are gaining attention; and the number of women in key roles keeps growing. Yoga among the vines is s ...
The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...
A magnum of Lafite Rothschild 1887 sold for £22,500 ($28,300) at a Sotheby’s auction of ‘vinous treasures’ spanning nearly 200 years. The wine, held in storage with Octavian group in Wiltshire, had a pre-sale high estimate of £18,000. A single bottle of Château d’Yquem 1831 sold for £27,500 (pre-sale high estimate: £20,000). Another bottle of Yquem, from the 1896 vintage, sold for £15,000, tripling its pre-sale high estimate. ‘An extraordinary wine from a very great Sauternes vintage,’ said Sere ...
