The Winery La Bessiere of Loire Valley

Winery La Bessiere - Clos de la Croix Saumur Champigny
The winery offers 6 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.3.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Loire Valley.
It is located in Loire Valley

The Winery La Bessiere is one of the best wineries to follow in Vallée de la Loire.. It offers 6 wines for sale in of Loire Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery La Bessiere wines

Looking for the best Winery La Bessiere wines in Loire Valley among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery La Bessiere 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 Winery La Bessiere wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery La Bessiere

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery La Bessiere

How Winery La Bessiere wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of blanquette of monkfish with small vegetables, pumpkin and bacon pie or duck breast with honey, potato and onion with garlic.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery La Bessiere

  • 2012With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.30/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery La Bessiere.

  • Cabernet Franc

Discovering the wine region of Loire Valley

The Loire Valley is a key wine region in western France. It follows the course of the Loire River on its Long journey through the heart of France, from the inland hills of the Auvergne to the plains of the French Atlantic coast near Nantes (Muscadet country). Important in terms of quantity and quality, the region produces large quantities (about 4 million h/l each year) of everyday wines, as well as some of France's greatest wines. Diversity is another of the region's major assets; the styles of wine produced here range from the light, tangy Muscadet to the Sweet, honeyed Bonnezeaux, the Sparkling whites of Vouvray and the juicy, Tannic reds of Chinon and Saumur.

It's quite telling that this brief overview of the region's wines doesn't even mention the Loire Valley's two most famous wines - Sancerre and Pouilly-Fume. White wines are clearly the strong point of the Loire Valley and represent the vast majority of production. A significant proportion of these are produced under PGI appellations, most commonly the IGP Loire (formerly Vin de Pays du Jardin de la France), which covers the whole region. The main white Grape varieties used for the production of white wines in the Loire Valley are Sauvignon Blanc, Chenin Blanc, Melon de Bourgogne and, more popular than the traditional, Chardonnay.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery La Bessiere

Planning a wine route in the of Loire Valley? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery La Bessiere.

Discover the grape variety: Merlot blanc

The white merlot (or merlau) is a grape variety of Bordeaux origin. It was mainly cultivated in the Graves, Blayais and Bourgeais regions. Merlot blanc is a cross between folle blanche and merlot noir. merlot blanc, although fertile and productive, is a grape variety that is now in decline and is no longer replanted. Its bunches are composed of juicy berries of a green to golden yellow color when they are well ripe, they fear grey rot and drought. The white merlot produces white wines with a low alcohol content and is now part of the Pineau-des-Charentes appellation.

News about Winery La Bessiere and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Ampélographie

Study of the vine, and more particularly the grape varieties.