The wine region of Thezac-Perricard is located in the region of Comté Tolosan of Vin de Pays of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Vin du Tsar or the Domaine Vin du Tsar produce mainly wines red, pink and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Thezac-Perricard are Merlot, Malbec and Gros Manseng, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Thezac-Perricard often reveals types of flavors of oak, black fruit.
We currently count 2 estates and châteaux in the of Thezac-Perricard, producing 12 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Thezac-Perricard go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, game (deer, venison) or spicy food.
Disconcerting: I couldn’t forget this bottle for days afterwards. Still can’t. Back in August, wine critic Lin Liu MW (together with her partner Philippe Lejeune of Château de Chambert in Cahors) came to dinner, en route to a short holiday in Provence. One of the bottles Lin brought for us to try together was the 2018 Les Rocheuses, Parcelles No 5 et 6, from Château Le Rey in Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux. It came in a slope-shouldered bottle, not a classic Bordeaux bottle. We tried it with some R ...
Bodegas Vizar is located in the municipality of Villabáñez, to the east of Valladolid is Spain’s Castile and León region, bordering the Ribera del Duero DO. Vizar’s application to obtain the Dehesa Peñalba vino de pago DO was first put forward to, and approved by the Agrarian and Technological Institute of Castilla y León (ITACyL), in 2019. The proposal was then submitted to the European Commission, which granted the final green light earlier this month. ‘We started the process in 2015 and ...
My book The Complete Bordeaux, which has been revised every five years, is soon to be published in its fourth edition. This may seem like excessive haste, given the scope of the book, but it is astonishing how rapidly changes can take place in the region. Burgundy, in contrast, is relatively stable, since most properties are family-owned and tend to stay that way. But not so in Bordeaux, where there are ample opportunities for newcomers to acquire established properties, as they have been doing ...
