Top 100 red wines of Bugey
Discover the top 100 best red wines of Bugey of Bugey as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the red wines that are popular of Bugey and the best vintages to taste in this region.
Discovering the wine region of Bugey
Bugey is a wine region in the Ain department of eastern France. The Bugey appellation covers red, white, rosé and Sparkling wines from a range of Grape varieties. The more specific Roussette du Bugey appellation applies to the Rich white wines produced in the region from the Altesse grape. The area covers the Southern limits of the Jura mountain range, which also includes the Jura wine region to the North.
The Rhône River loops around the southern end of Bugey, before flowing south to join the famous Rhône vineyards. Lyon is some 50 kilometres to the west, and the Alpine vineyards of Savoy are directly to the east. Although not technically linked to French wine law, Bugey is often grouped with Savoie. They are close both geographically and in terms of the styles of wine produced.
Discover the grape variety: Plantet
Plantet noir is a grape variety that originated in . This grape variety is the result of a cross between the same species (interspecific hybridization). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. The Plantet noir can be found cultivated in the following vineyards: Rhône Valley, Loire Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Armagnac.
Food and wine pairing with a red wine of Bugey
red wines from the region of Bugey go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or pork such as recipes of roast monkfish with bacon, veal blanquette à l'ancienne or pigeon with bacon and mushrooms.
Organoleptic analysis of red wine of Bugey
On the nose in the region of Bugey often reveals types of flavors of cranberry, earth or spices and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, strawberries or non oak.
News from the vineyard of Bugey
Remembering Clive Coates MW, an authority on Burgundy and Bordeaux
The world of fine wine was saddened this weekend at the news of the passing of the widely loved wine authority Clive Coates MW. Few, if any, Masters of Wine exhibited the spontaneous generosity and amiable disposition that Clive Coates displayed throughout his long and illustrious career. His generosity with his time was remarkable given the breadth of his activities. Personally, I will always be grateful for his encouragement while I was preparing for the MW exam and again when publishing my fi ...
Andrew Jefford: ‘2021 has been the year of all the miseries’
How’s the weather been this year? Awful. ‘La nature m’écoeure’, one of my wine-growing friends posted on Facebook on 8 April, having been out to look at the frost-crippled shoots on his vines that morning: ‘Nature disgusts me’. It takes a lot to make a wine-grower feel that. He wasn’t alone. Jeremiads echo around the northern hemisphere as 2021 closes. It’s been the year of all the miseries. None suffered more horribly than the growers of Germany’s Ahr valley, where floodwaters caused by the fou ...
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