The Winery Abrard & Fils of Cahors of South West

Winery Abrard & Fils - Reserve du Vieux Noir Cahors Malbec
Only one wine is currently referenced in this domain
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.1.
It is ranked in the top 394 of the estates of South West.
It is located in Cahors in the region of South West

The Winery Abrard & Fils is one of the best wineries to follow in Cahors.. It offers 1 wines for sale in of Cahors to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Abrard & Fils wines

Looking for the best Winery Abrard & Fils wines in Cahors among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Abrard & Fils 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 Abrard & Fils wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Abrard & Fils

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Abrard & Fils

How Winery Abrard & Fils wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry such as recipes of american style beef marinade, lamb with coconut milk or turkey cutlets with feta and cherry tomatoes.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Abrard & Fils

On the nose the red wine of Winery Abrard & Fils. often reveals types of flavors of oaky, blackberry or tobacco and sometimes also flavors of dark fruit, non oak or earth.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Abrard & Fils

  • 2009With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2012With an average score of 2.80/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Abrard & Fils.

  • Malbec

Discovering the wine region of Cahors

The wine region of Cahors is located in the region of Haut-Pays of South West of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Château Lagrézette or the Château Lagrézette produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Cahors are Malbec, Merlot and Tannat, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Cahors often reveals types of flavors of cherry, tomatoes or toasty and sometimes also flavors of apples, citrus or tropical fruit.

In the mouth of Cahors is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 308 estates and châteaux in the of Cahors, producing 922 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Cahors go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry.

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Planning a wine route in the of Cahors? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Abrard & Fils.

Discover the grape variety: Malbec

Malbec, a high-yielding red grape variety, produces tannic and colourful wines. It is produced in different wine-growing regions and changes its name according to the grape variety. Called Auxerrois in Cahors, Malbec in Bordeaux, it is also known as Côt. 6,000 hectares of the Malbec grape are grown in France (in decline since the 1950s). Malbec is also very successful in Argentina. The country has become the world's leading producer of Malbec and offers wines with great potential.

News about Winery Abrard & Fils and wines from the region

Andrew Jefford: ‘A wine’s visual cues shout, stamp, whistle and roar’

Disconcerting: I couldn’t forget this bottle for days afterwards. Still can’t. Back in August, wine critic Lin Liu MW (together with her partner Philippe Lejeune of Château de Chambert in Cahors) came to dinner, en route to a short holiday in Provence. One of the bottles Lin brought for us to try together was the 2018 Les Rocheuses, Parcelles No 5 et 6, from Château Le Rey in Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux. It came in a slope-shouldered bottle, not a classic Bordeaux bottle. We tried it with some R ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘The gifts of Bacchus hold our gaze like a procession’

Do growers make wine – or do markets? Growers, of course. Yet markets define the scope of the grower’s creative efforts by what they reward or sanction. When markets are neglectful and unresponsive, there’s little the grower can do but conform. It’s a problem the world over. Here’s an example. The river Moselle/Mosel rises to the wet west of the Vosges mountains, then curves in a long green arc heading north through Epinal, Metz and (along the left bank) Luxembourg’s Grand Duchy, turning east at ...

Rethinking the wine bottle for the future

There’s been a focus on making wine production less energy intensive as well as environmentally friendly in order to address climate change. The efforts continue but, as is the case for electric cars where it’s the battery technology that needs innovating, it’s in wine bottles where we’re seeing rapid change. It comes in a two-pronged attack to reduce energy use in manufacturing and then an even bigger emphasis on reducing bottle weight for shipping to reduce fuel usage and thus CO2 production. ...

The word of the wine: Empyreumatic

Families of smells and aromas related to smoke, burnt, and more generally to roasting.