The best wines of Chablais

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

Top wines of Chablais by region

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

Great red wines of Chablais

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Food and wine pairing with a red wine of Chablais

Red wines from the region of Chablais go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of couscous without couscous maker, chicken with merguez and tomatoes or rougail sausage.

The best vintages in red wine of Chablais

  • 2010With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.98/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.92/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.88/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.88/5

The most used grape varieties in red wine of Chablais

  • Pinot Noir
  • Gamay
  • Merlot
  • Garanoir
  • Gamaret
  • Cabernet Franc

The best wineries and winemakers for red wine of Chablais

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

Discovering the wine region of Chablais

The wine region of Chablais is located in the region of Vaud of Switzerland. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Clos du Châtelard or the Domaine Henri Badoux produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Chablais are Chasselas, Pinot noir and Gamay noir, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Chablais often reveals types of flavors of citrus, apricot or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit, red fruit or oak.

In the mouth of Chablais is a with a nice freshness. We currently count 48 estates and châteaux in the of Chablais, producing 103 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Chablais go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork.

Great white wines of Chablais

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Food and wine pairing with a white wine of Chablais

White wines from the region of Chablais go well with generally quite well with dishes of poultry, lean fish or mild and soft cheese such as recipes of coconut chicken and curry, fish fondue or north welsch.

Organoleptic analysis of white wine of Chablais

On the nose the white wine of the region of Chablais. often reveals types of flavors of oak, non oak. In the mouth the white wine of the region of Chablais. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in white wine of Chablais

  • 2014With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2016With an average score of 4.08/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.97/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.78/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.77/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.70/5

The most used grape varieties in white wine of Chablais

  • Chasselas
  • Chardonnay
  • Pinot Gris
  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Gewürztraminer
  • Sauvignon Gris

The best wineries and winemakers for white wine of Chablais

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

Discover the grape variety: Galotta

Intraspecific cross between ancellotta and gamay à jus blanc obtained in 1981 at the Agroscope Research Station in Pully (Switzerland).

Great sparkling wines of Chablais

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Food and wine pairing with a sparkling wine of Chablais

Sparkling wines from the region of Chablais go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of rice with sausage meat and tomatoes, sea bream or ham and comté quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of sparkling wine of Chablais

On the nose the sparkling wine of the region of Chablais. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, oak or tree fruit.

The most used grape varieties in sparkling wine of Chablais

  • Chardonnay
  • Muscat Blanc

The best wineries and winemakers for sparkling wine of Chablais

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

The word of the wine: Reims Mountain

Between Épernay and Reims, a large limestone massif with varied soils and exposure where pinot noir reigns supreme. Ambonnay, Bouzy, Verzenay, Verzy, etc., are equivalent to the Burgundian Gevrey-Chambertin and Vosne-Romanée. There are also great Chardonnays, which are rarer (Mailly, Marmery, Trépail, Villers).

Great pink wines of Chablais

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Food and wine pairing with a pink wine of Chablais

Pink wines from the region of Chablais go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of express veal stew in a pressure cooker, merguez - courgettes gratin (leftover barbecue) or garlic shrimp.

Organoleptic analysis of pink wine of Chablais

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

The best vintages in pink wine of Chablais

  • 2017With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2013With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.50/5

The most used grape varieties in pink wine of Chablais

  • Pinot Noir
  • Gamay
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot

The best wineries and winemakers for pink wine of Chablais

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

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Pinot noir is an important red grape variety in Burgundy and Champagne, and its reputation is well known! Great wines such as the Domaine de la Romanée Conti elaborate their wines from this famous grape variety, and make it a great variety. When properly vinified, pinot noit produces red wines of great finesse, with a wide range of aromas depending on its advancement (fruit, undergrowth, leather). it is also the only red grape variety authorized in Alsace. Pinot Noir is not easily cultivated beyond our borders, although it has enjoyed some success in Oregon, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

Great sweet wines of Chablais

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Food and wine pairing with a sweet wine of Chablais

Sweet wines from the region of Chablais go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of authentic bolognese sauce (ragù di carne), blanquette of veal in the old way (self-cooker) or wild boar leg of 7 hours.

Organoleptic analysis of sweet wine of Chablais

In the mouth the sweet wine of the region of Chablais. is a mainly marked by the residual sugar.

The best vintages in sweet wine of Chablais

  • 2011With an average score of 4.20/5

The most used grape varieties in sweet wine of Chablais

  • Pinot Noir
  • Chasselas
  • Pinot Gris
  • Garanoir
  • Gamaret
  • Galotta

The best wineries and winemakers for sweet wine of Chablais

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

The word of the wine: Blanc de blancs (champagne)

Champagne made only from the Chardonnay grape. The expression has been somewhat overused by the intensive use made of it by certain large distributors of white table wines (or sparkling wines) who were thus seeking to promote their product.

News from the vineyard of Chablais

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 ...

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 ...

Château Lafon-Rochet appoints Christophe Congé as MD

Having joined Domaine Barons de Rothschild in 1999, Congé has since held the role of oenologist and wine operations manager across Château Lafite Rothschild and Château Duhart Milon for over 22 years. He has now been appointed MD of  Saint-Estèphe fourth growth Château Lafon-Rochet. He takes on his new role with immediate effect. Congé will work closely with Emmanuel Cruse, director of Vignobles Cruse-Lorenzetti, which acquired Château Lafon-Rochet from the Tesseron family last year. The appoint ...

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