The best wines of Fitou

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

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Top wines of Fitou by region

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

Great red wines of Fitou

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Want to buy a red wine of Fitou cheap or sell a red wine of Fitou 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 Fitou

Red wines from the region of Fitou go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal such as recipes of stuffed peppers, simple chinese noodle soup or veal shank with mushrooms.

Organoleptic analysis of red wine of Fitou

On the nose the red wine of the region of Fitou. often reveals types of flavors of blackberry, dark fruit or bramble and sometimes also flavors of oaky, blueberry or leather. In the mouth the red wine of the region of Fitou. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in red wine of Fitou

  • 2000With an average score of 4.50/5
  • 2005With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2002With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2006With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2003With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2009With an average score of 4.08/5

The most used grape varieties in red wine of Fitou

  • Grenache
  • Carignan
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Mourvedre
  • Grenache Gris
  • Malbec

The best wineries and winemakers for red wine of Fitou

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

Discovering the wine region of Fitou

Fitou is a red wine appellation in the heart of the Languedoc-Roussillon wine region in southern France. The wine takes its name from a small Village located a few kilometres from the Mediterranean coast. The typical Fitou wine is not dissimilar to the reds produced in the neighbouring Corbières (i. e.

rustic, Herbaceous, leathery, medium-bodied and moderately Tannic). Both appellations use the same Grape varieties, and the Terroir of the southern Corbières is very similar to that of Fitou. The distinction between them is one of tradition and pride. Any proposal to absorb the Fitou appellation into the Corbières would be strongly resisted by the proud producers of Fitou.

Carignan is traditionally the emblematic grape variety of Fitou. Today, it shares the spotlight with Grenache.

Great white wines of Fitou

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Want to buy a white wine of Fitou cheap or sell a white wine of Fitou 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 Fitou

White wines from the region of Fitou go well with generally quite well with dishes of pasta, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of mascarpone/gorgonzola macaroni gratin, quiche without pastry, courgette and blue cheese or savoyard pizza (cream base).

The best vintages in white wine of Fitou

  • 2017With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.60/5

The most used grape varieties in white wine of Fitou

  • Muscat Blanc
  • Grenache Blanc

The best wineries and winemakers for white wine of Fitou

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

Discover the grape variety: Grenache

Grenache noir is a grape variety that originated in Spain. It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by medium to large bunches, and grapes of medium size. Grenache noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Languedoc & Roussillon, Rhone Valley, Loire Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

Great pink wines of Fitou

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Want to buy a pink wine of Fitou cheap or sell a pink wine of Fitou 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 pink wine of Fitou

Pink wines from the region of Fitou go well with generally quite well with dishes of pasta, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of italian pasta salad, quiche lorraine or hummus.

Organoleptic analysis of pink wine of Fitou

In the mouth the pink wine of the region of Fitou. is a with a nice freshness.

The most used grape varieties in pink wine of Fitou

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Grenache

The best wineries and winemakers for pink wine of Fitou

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

Discover the grape variety: Grenache

Grenache noir is a grape variety that originated in Spain. It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by medium to large bunches, and grapes of medium size. Grenache noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Languedoc & Roussillon, Rhone Valley, Loire Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

News from the vineyard of Fitou

Hugh Johnson: ‘I’ve formed a bond with Grillo and flirted with Verdicchio’

I’d like to say we took advantage of the lockdown and its related commotion to do a stock-take, explore new avenues, turn over intriguing stones, widen and deepen our drinking, taking careful notes as we went. Sadly, no. I won’t say we got stuck in a rut, but we did tend to stick with comfort wines – and “comfort”, in our case, means familiar. Regular readers of this quarterly column can probably guess the labels on the resulting empties. We have a wider range of comfort foods, I’m afraid, than ...

Bordeaux ‘Act for Change’ symposium

The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C  in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

A wine route in the region of Fitou ? Visit the most beautiful wine towns and villages

  • La palme
  • Villeneuve les corbières