Top 100 wines of Luxembourg - Page 4
Discover the top 100 best wines of Luxembourg as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the wines that are popular of Luxembourg and the best vintages to taste in this region.
Discovering the wine region of Luxembourg
Luxembourg (officially the "Grand Duchy of Luxembourg") is a landlocked country at the junction of Belgium, Germany and France. It is a small country compared to its neighbours, stretching 80 km from North to South and 50 km from west to east, covering just over 2,500 square kilometres. Only 1% of this area is devoted to wine growing.
Located in the north of Western Europe, it is one of the coolest wine regions in the world.
In the north of the country, the Ardennes hills and forests dominate the topography. Forest accounts for a third of the country's land and the north is sparsely populated.
The vast majority of Luxembourg's 620,000 inhabitants live in the southern half of the country.
Wine production in Luxembourg has been in Slight decline since the late 1990s, with annual production currently at around 80,000 hectoliters (8 million liters or 2.
1 million U. S. gallons).
Viticulture is centered in the southeastern Part of Luxembourg, where the Mosel River (known as the Moselle) forms the national border with Germany.
Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay
The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.
Food and wine pairing with a wine of Luxembourg
wines from the region of Luxembourg go well with generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of marco polo salad, light tuna-tomato quiche (without cream) or rillettes of sardines.
Organoleptic analysis of wine of Luxembourg
On the nose in the region of Luxembourg often reveals types of flavors of non oak, ginger or honey and sometimes also flavors of earth, spices or tree fruit. In the mouth in the region of Luxembourg is a powerful with a nice vivacity and a fine and pleasant bubble.
News from the vineyard of Luxembourg
Domaine Clarence Dillon shines at the 2023 Oscars
The 95th Academy Awards, more usually known as The Oscars, saw the usual glittering array of award-winning stars thanking their agents, managers and occasionally screenwriters. One former member of that last profession, though, made a cameo role in a very different capacity this year. Prince Robert of Luxembourg worked as a screenwriter in a past life, but this year he attended the Oscars to raise a glass to the film industry instead. And the wine in that glass was from one of the estates within ...
Rare Haut-Brion helps Prince Robert of Luxembourg cellar auction ‘smash’ estimate
All 818 lots were sold in the auction, which saw Prince Robert of Luxembourg, chairman and CEO of Château Haut-Brion owner Domaine Clarence Dillon, open up his personal cellar to raise funds for the PolG Foundation. Featuring 4,200 bottles and covering Bordeaux wine royalty spanning more than a century of vintages, Sotheby’s said the auction ‘smashed’ its pre-sale high estimate of around $4m. Two 4.5-litre Jeroboams of Haut-Brion, one from the 1926 vintage and the other from 1 ...
A perfect storm: Nutri-Score, alcohol and health
The situation has been developing for a long time. But the potentially explosive elements are growing in intensity and coming together as if by some invisible magnetic force. In 2011, Regulation No. 1169 (which amended earlier regulations going back to 2006) was adopted in European Parliament calling for a system to provide food nutrition information to consumers. Shortly thereafter, the French Ministry of Health instructed Santé Publique France, the national public health agency, to create a co ...