The best wines of Bugey

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

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Top wines of Bugey by region

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

Great red wines of Bugey

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Food and wine pairing with a red wine of Bugey

Red wines from the region of Bugey go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or pork such as recipes of beef kidney, saltimbocca alla romana or ham and cheese omelette.

Organoleptic analysis of red wine of Bugey

On the nose the red wine of the region of Bugey. often reveals types of flavors of strawberries, non oak or earth and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or red fruit.

The best vintages in red wine of Bugey

  • 2016With an average score of 3.85/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.81/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.74/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.72/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.61/5

The most used grape varieties in red wine of Bugey

  • Mondeuse Noire
  • Pinot Noir
  • Gamay

The best wineries and winemakers for red wine of Bugey

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

Discovering the wine region of Bugey

Bugey is a wine region in the Ain department of eastern France. The Bugey appellation covers red, white, rosé and Sparkling wines from a range of Grape varieties. The more specific Roussette du Bugey appellation applies to the Rich white wines produced in the region from the Altesse grape. The area covers the Southern limits of the Jura mountain range, which also includes the Jura wine region to the North.

The Rhône River loops around the southern end of Bugey, before flowing south to join the famous Rhône vineyards. Lyon is some 50 kilometres to the west, and the Alpine vineyards of Savoy are directly to the east. Although not technically linked to French wine law, Bugey is often grouped with Savoie. They are close both geographically and in terms of the styles of wine produced.

Great white wines of Bugey

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Food and wine pairing with a white wine of Bugey

White wines from the region of Bugey go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of spaghetti squash with cream and bacon, sun wheat or light tuna-tomato quiche (without cream).

Organoleptic analysis of white wine of Bugey

On the nose the white wine of the region of Bugey. often reveals types of flavors of minerality, pear or honey and sometimes also flavors of earth, microbio or oak.

The best vintages in white wine of Bugey

  • 2019With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2011With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.93/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.91/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.87/5

The most used grape varieties in white wine of Bugey

  • Chardonnay
  • Altesse
  • Roussette D'Ayze

The best wineries and winemakers for white wine of Bugey

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

Discover the grape variety: Mondeuse noire

Cultivated for a very long time in Savoie, it is not the black form of mondeuse blanche and Mondeuse grise is a natural mutation of mondeuse noire. According to Thierry Lacombe (I.N.R.A./Montpellier), the latter is the result of a natural intraspecific crossing between the black tressot and the white mondeuse. Mondeuse grise and Mondeuse noire are both registered in the official catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A1.

Great sparkling wines of Bugey

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Food and wine pairing with a sparkling wine of Bugey

Sparkling wines from the region of Bugey go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) such as recipes of stuffed peppers, moist parmesan steak or avocado and marinated tuna poke bowl.

Organoleptic analysis of sparkling wine of Bugey

On the nose the sparkling wine of the region of Bugey. often reveals types of flavors of citrus, yeast or peach and sometimes also flavors of green apple, blueberry or red fruit.

The best vintages in sparkling wine of Bugey

  • N.V.With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2008With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.08/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.08/5
  • 2013With an average score of 4.02/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.01/5

The most used grape varieties in sparkling wine of Bugey

  • Gamay
  • Poulsard
  • Altesse
  • Mondeuse Blanche
  • Chardonnay
  • Pinot Noir

The best wineries and winemakers for sparkling wine of Bugey

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

The word of the wine: Rebêche (champagne)

Must obtained in excess of the 2 550 litres authorised for a weight of 4 000 kilos of grapes. The first 2 050 litres constitute the cuvée and the next 500 litres the taille. The rebêche represents 1 to 3 % of the total volume and must be distilled or used to make ratafia.

Great pink wines of Bugey

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Food and wine pairing with a pink wine of Bugey

Pink wines from the region of Bugey go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or pork such as recipes of traditional hungarian goulash, oriental stuffed vegetables or cajun jumbalaya rice.

Organoleptic analysis of pink wine of Bugey

On the nose the pink wine of the region of Bugey. often reveals types of flavors of strawberries, apricot or microbio and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, red fruit.

The best vintages in pink wine of Bugey

  • N.V.With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.80/5

The most used grape varieties in pink wine of Bugey

  • Gamay
  • Pinot Noir
  • Poulsard
  • Pinot Gris
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Grenache

The best wineries and winemakers for pink wine of Bugey

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

Discover the grape variety: Mondeuse blanche

Haute-Savoie finds in Mondeuse blanche one of the oldest grape varieties planted in its vineyards. It can be found throughout Savoie and Ain, although its cultivation is not very well developed. Barely 5 hectares of vineyards are planted with this variety. It is known by other names such as savouette, dongine, couilleri or aigre blanc. Mondeuse blanche can be recognized by the downy appearance of its young shoots bearing very tan leaves, reminiscent of spider webs. The leaf blade tends to lose its tan appearance as it ages, while the 5 lobes are clearly defined. Mondeuse blanche produces bunches of grapes that give a wine with good acidity and a long shelf life, which can be kept for up to thirty years. They appear compact, cylindrical and winged. The juicy, sweet and crunchy berries ripen in the second late season. The golden yellow or green skin is quite strong, covering an ovoid or spherical fruit of medium size.

News from the vineyard of Bugey

Remembering Clive Coates MW, an authority on Burgundy and Bordeaux

The world of fine wine was saddened this weekend at the news of the passing of the widely loved wine authority Clive Coates MW. Few, if any, Masters of Wine exhibited the spontaneous generosity and amiable disposition that Clive Coates displayed throughout his long and illustrious career. His generosity with his time was remarkable given the breadth of his activities. Personally, I will always be grateful for his encouragement while I was preparing for the MW exam and again when publishing my fi ...

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 ...

Bordeaux château to ‘simulate’ 2050 vintage climate

Château La Tour Carnet said it will expose an experimental vineyard to artificially higher temperatures to replicate some of the conditions the Bordeaux 2050 vintage may face due to climate change. It’s part of the ‘Oracle’ project at the fourth growth estate, which is among those in Bordeaux seeking to understand how well classic grape varieties like Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot can adapt to climate change. At La Tour Carnet, warming cables more commonly used in aeroplanes will be employed thi ...

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