The Château Brillette of Moulis-en-Médoc of Bordeaux

Château Brillette - B de Brillette Moulis-en-Médoc
The winery offers 6 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 11 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Moulis-en-Médoc in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Brillette is one of the world's great estates. It offers 6 wines for sale in of Moulis-en-Médoc to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Brillette wines

Looking for the best Château Brillette wines in Moulis-en-Médoc among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Brillette wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Château Brillette wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château Brillette

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Brillette

How Château Brillette wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of stuffed peppers, douez battata with cardoons (moroccan lamb stew) or rabbit with white wine and mushrooms.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Brillette

On the nose the red wine of Château Brillette. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, dark fruit or chocolate and sometimes also flavors of mushroom, cassis or prune. In the mouth the red wine of Château Brillette. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Brillette

  • 2017With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.94/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2000With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.87/5
  • 1995With an average score of 3.85/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Brillette.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot
  • Petit Verdot

Discovering the wine region of Moulis-en-Médoc

The wine region of Moulis-en-Médoc is located in the region of Médoc of Bordeaux of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Château Branas Grand Poujeaux or the Château Chasse-Spleen produce mainly wines red and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Moulis-en-Médoc are Cabernet-Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet franc, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Moulis-en-Médoc often reveals types of flavors of cherry, fig or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of oil, banana or walnut.

In the mouth of Moulis-en-Médoc is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 75 estates and châteaux in the of Moulis-en-Médoc, producing 117 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Moulis-en-Médoc go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Brillette

Planning a wine route in the of Moulis-en-Médoc? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Brillette.

Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). 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 to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

News about Château Brillette and wines from the region

Anthony Barton: tributes paid to Bordeaux wine great

The Barton family announced yesterday (19 January), ‘We have the immense sadness to inform you that our beloved Anthony Barton passed away at the age of 91 years old.’ Known as the ‘gentleman’ of Bordeaux wine and admired for his sense of humour and charisma, Anthony Barton was also widely respected for modernising family estates Léoville Barton and Langoa Barton – the respective 1855 second and third growth châteaux in the St-Julien appellation. Barton was credited, too, with maintaining ...

Bordeaux 2021 En Primeur: first impressions

There’s no doubt that 2021 was a challenging vintage. Most explanatory statements or technical sheets handed out over the past few weeks have mentioned the unfavourable, oft disastrous weather conditions, the sometimes very low and disheartening yields and the slightly varied or unusual blends on offer in 2021. Difficulties faced by vignerons both inside and outside of the cellar have been explained in detail as has the raft of highly important decisions needed be made throughout the year, ...

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 ...

The word of the wine: Noble rot

A fungus called botrytis cinerea that develops during the over-ripening phase, an ally of great sweet white wines, when it concentrates the juice of the berries. It requires the humidity of morning fogs and beautiful sunny days, gives musts very rich in sugar and brings to the wines the famous taste of "roasted".