Top 100 wines of Aude

Discover the top 100 best wines of Aude of Pays d'Oc as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the wines that are popular of Aude and the best vintages to taste in this region.

Discovering the wine region of Aude

The wine region of Aude is located in the region of Pays d'Oc of Vin de Pays of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Jeff Carrel or the Domaine Chevalier de Bayard produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Aude are Merlot, Cabernet-Sauvignon and Chardonnay, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Aude often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, black currant or floral and sometimes also flavors of tropical fruit, chard or earthy.

In the mouth of Aude is a powerful with a nice freshness. We currently count 164 estates and châteaux in the of Aude, producing 311 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Aude go well with generally quite well with dishes of pasta, vegetarian or poultry.

Discover the grape variety: Albarino

It is a Spanish variety, in Galicia to be precise, with its cradle in the Rias Baixas area, around Pontevedra and up to Orense. It would be a close relative of the Loureiro. Widely cultivated in Portugal, ... in France, it is registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A1.

Food and wine pairing with a wine of Aude

wines from the region of Aude go well with generally quite well with dishes of pasta, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of spaghetti with old-fashioned tomato sauce, vegan leek and tofu quiche or fried squid.

Organoleptic analysis of wine of Aude

On the nose in the region of Aude often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, black currant or floral and sometimes also flavors of tropical fruit, chard or earthy. In the mouth in the region of Aude is a powerful with a nice freshness.

News from the vineyard of Aude

Major Bordeaux merchant Maison Joanne gets new shareholders

Several private investors have taken shareholdings in Maison Joanne, one of the biggest Bordeaux négociant firms and leading distributor of grands crus to wine merchants around the world. Company president Pierre Antoine Castéja announced the changes in a letter to business partners and friends on the eve of the Bordeaux 2021 en primeur tasting week. It marks a new chapter for the family business, which celebrates its 160th anniversary this year and has around 5 million bottles of fine wine stor ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘The gifts of Bacchus hold our gaze like a procession’

Do growers make wine – or do markets? Growers, of course. Yet markets define the scope of the grower’s creative efforts by what they reward or sanction. When markets are neglectful and unresponsive, there’s little the grower can do but conform. It’s a problem the world over. Here’s an example. The river Moselle/Mosel rises to the wet west of the Vosges mountains, then curves in a long green arc heading north through Epinal, Metz and (along the left bank) Luxembourg’s Grand Duchy, turning east at ...

Best in Show: The top 50 wines of DWWA 2022

The 0.27% of entries awarded Best in Show at this year’s Decanter World Wine Awards reflect the inspiring world of wine and quest for quality among winemakers globally, with 50 wines expressing the best of their categories. An all-time record for wines tasted at the world’s largest wine competition, it’s quite possible that Decanter World Wine Awards 2022 marks the largest-ever wine competition to be held in history. And of the record-breaking 18,244 wines tasted, just 50 were ...