The best wines of Belgium

Discover the best wines of Belgium as well as the best winemakers of Belgium and estates of Belgium to visit. Explore the popular grape varieties of Belgium and the best vintages to taste in this region.

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Top wines of Belgium by region

Looking for a good wine of Belgium among the top wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent wines of Belgium. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be appropriate with these exceptional wines. Learn more about the region and the wines of Belgium with technical and enological descriptions.

Great red wines of Belgium

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Want to buy a red wine of Belgium cheap or sell a red wine of Belgium at the best price on the market? Find out which ones are popular and which ones to keep in your cellar for a few more years.

Food and wine pairing with a red wine of Belgium

Red wines from the region of Belgium go well with generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of tunisian pasta, rabbit with prunes or cassoulet of the sea.

Organoleptic analysis of red wine of Belgium

On the nose the red wine of the region of Belgium. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, non oak or black fruit and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, spices or oak.

The best vintages in red wine of Belgium

  • 2017With an average score of 3.79/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.79/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.68/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.68/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.68/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.65/5

The most used grape varieties in red wine of Belgium

  • Pinot Noir
  • Acolon
  • Barbera
  • St. Laurent
  • Cabernet Cortis
  • Regent

The best wineries and winemakers for red wine of Belgium

A wine route planned in the region of Belgium? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of the best red wine of Belgium.

Discovering the wine region of Belgium

The Belgian market is one of the most successful in France/bordeaux">Bordeaux, and has also played a key role in dictating the 1855 classifications of the Médoc and Graves. Many of the great estates in Bordeaux are - or have been - owned by Belgian wine merchants. For example, one branch of the Flemish Thienpoint family (Jacques) owns Le Pin, while another (his cousin Alexandre) owns Vieux Château Certan. Despite this strong focus on cereal-based drinks, Belgium also has a number of vineyards.

Its annual wine production would easily fit into a single storage Tank in one of the largest vineyards in Australia or the United States, and has not yet been exported on any scale. Most of the wine produced in Belgium is made by individuals for home consumption. The white Grape varieties preferred by Belgian winemakers are Chardonnay and Pinot Gris from across the border in France, and Kerner, Optima and Muller-Thurgau from neighbouring Germany. The few red wines produced are from a handful of Pinot Noir and Dornfelder grapes.

The meeting point of the Moselle and Rhine, two of Europe's great wine rivers, Lies just 80 kilometres east of Belgium's eastern border. It is a very close point, but on the other side of the Ardennes. The Moselle forms the eastern border of Luxembourg, Belgium's small neighbour, whose per capita wine production is much higher. The capital of the Champagne region, Reims, is at the same distance from the southern border of Belgium.

Great white wines of Belgium

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Want to buy a white wine of Belgium cheap or sell a white wine of Belgium at the best price on the market? Find out which ones are popular and which ones to keep in your cellar for a few more years.

Food and wine pairing with a white wine of Belgium

White wines from the region of Belgium go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of vegetable planter, niçoise salad or quiche without pastry, courgette and blue cheese.

Organoleptic analysis of white wine of Belgium

On the nose the white wine of the region of Belgium. often reveals types of flavors of lemon, asparagus or floral and sometimes also flavors of spices, tree fruit or oak.

The best vintages in white wine of Belgium

  • 2007With an average score of 4.01/5
  • 2006With an average score of 3.95/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.87/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.87/5

The most used grape varieties in white wine of Belgium

  • Chardonnay
  • Solaris
  • Johanniter
  • Pinot Gris
  • Pinot Blanc
  • Cabernet Blanc

The best wineries and winemakers for white wine of Belgium

A wine route planned in the region of Belgium? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of the best white wine of Belgium.

Discover the grape variety: Rondo

An interspecific cross between Zarya Severa (Sayanets Malengra x Amurensis) - a Russian variety - and Saint Laurent, obtained in 1964 by Vilem Kraus (Czech Republic) and then tested at the Geisenheim Research Institute (Germany). It can be found in Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, England, Ireland and Switzerland, but is virtually unknown in France.

Great sparkling wines of Belgium

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Food and wine pairing with a sparkling wine of Belgium

Sparkling wines from the region of Belgium go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of the real vegetables stuffed in the provençal way, tuna and mayonnaise onigiri or vegan leek and tofu quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of sparkling wine of Belgium

On the nose the sparkling wine of the region of Belgium. often reveals types of flavors of citrus, grapefruit or stone fruit and sometimes also flavors of toasty, stone or butter.

The best vintages in sparkling wine of Belgium

  • 2009With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.17/5
  • 2008With an average score of 4.02/5
  • 2016With an average score of 4.01/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.99/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.97/5

The most used grape varieties in sparkling wine of Belgium

  • Chardonnay
  • Pinot Noir
  • Pinot Blanc
  • Kerner
  • Pinot Gris
  • Pinot Meunier

The best wineries and winemakers for sparkling wine of Belgium

A wine route planned in the region of Belgium? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of the best sparkling wine of Belgium.

The word of the wine: Tertiary aromas

Aromas resulting from the aging of the wine in the bottle. The aromas evolve with time, from fresh fruitiness to notes of stewed, candied or dried fruit, to aromas of venison or undergrowth.

Great pink wines of Belgium

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Food and wine pairing with a pink wine of Belgium

Pink wines from the region of Belgium go well with generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of veal tagine with prunes, stuffed squid in the sétoise sauce or cassoulet with duck confit.

The best vintages in pink wine of Belgium

  • 2018With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.30/5

The most used grape varieties in pink wine of Belgium

  • Pinot Noir
  • Pinotin
  • Rondo
  • Dornfelder
  • Chardonnay
  • Cabernet Cortis

The best wineries and winemakers for pink wine of Belgium

A wine route planned in the region of Belgium? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of the best pink wine of Belgium.

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.

Great sweet wines of Belgium

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Want to buy a sweet wine of Belgium cheap or sell a sweet wine of Belgium at the best price on the market? Find out which ones are popular and which ones to keep in your cellar for a few more years.

Food and wine pairing with a sweet wine of Belgium

Sweet wines from the region of Belgium go well with generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of oven-baked salmon mozzarella sandwiches, chinese fried shrimp ravioli or mushroom, comté and morteau sausage cake.

Organoleptic analysis of sweet wine of Belgium

On the nose the sweet wine of the region of Belgium. often reveals types of flavors of earth, tree fruit.

The best vintages in sweet wine of Belgium

  • 2017With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.40/5

The most used grape varieties in sweet wine of Belgium

  • Pinot Gris
  • Pinot Noir
  • Muscat Noir
  • Muscat Blanc

The best wineries and winemakers for sweet wine of Belgium

A wine route planned in the region of Belgium? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of the best sweet wine of Belgium.

The word of the wine: Hat

Solid part (marc), composed of pips and skins (sometimes of the stalk), which forms at the top of the tank during fermentation. The pigeage consists in breaking this cap to put back in suspension these elements and to favour the exchanges between the juice and the skins.

Great natural sweet wines of Belgium

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Want to buy a natural-sweet wine of Belgium cheap or sell a natural-sweet wine of Belgium at the best price on the market? Find out which ones are popular and which ones to keep in your cellar for a few more years.

Food and wine pairing with a natural-sweet wine of Belgium

Natural sweet wines from the region of Belgium go well with generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of italian tabbouleh, quick paella or 4 cheese fondue.

The most used grape varieties in natural-sweet wine of Belgium

  • Pinot Gris
  • Kerner

The best wineries and winemakers for natural-sweet wine of Belgium

A wine route planned in the region of Belgium? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of the best natural-sweet wine of Belgium.

    Discover the grape variety: Muscardin

    Muscardin noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Vaucluse). 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 bunches of medium size, and grapes of medium caliber. The Muscardin noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhône valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Languedoc & Roussillon.

    News from the vineyard of Belgium

    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 ...

    Which countries drink the most wine? Ask Decanter

    The US still comes top on the list of which countries drink the most wine overall, according to to preliminary figures released this week by the International Organisation of Vine & Wine (OIV).  Wine consumption in the US crept up by 0.7% in 2021, to 33.1 million hectolitres (3.31 billion litres), the OIV said in a report on the state of the industry. World wine consumption grew by the same margin, to hit 236 million hectolitres (mhl), or 23.6bn litres, although trends varied by nation. That ...

    A perfect storm: Nutri-Score, alcohol and health

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