Winery Alain Ignace Les Passerilles Muscat Beaumes de Venise
This wine generally goes well with spicy food and sweet desserts.
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Discover the grape variety: Blütenmuskateller
An interspecific cross, obtained in Russia in 1947, between Severnyj - a relative of Vitis amurensis - and Muscat à petits grains blancs, which is also said to have Muscat fleur d'oranger and Muscat d'Alexandrie. Note that it is resistant to mildew and powdery mildew, and that its wine, often produced as a sweet sparkling wine, is of the muscat type, though less pronounced than that obtained from the usual muscat grape varieties. Unknown in France, it can be found in Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Russia, Hungary, Ukraine and Australia.
Informations about the Winery Alain Ignace
The Winery Alain Ignace is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 17 wines for sale in the of Muscat de Beaumes de Venise to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Muscat de Beaumes de Venise
The wine region of Muscat de Beaumes de Venise is located in the region of Beaumes-de-Venise of Rhone Valley of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Bernardins or the Domaine Alain Ignace produce mainly wines natural sweet, white and sweet. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Muscat de Beaumes de Venise are Chardonnay, Mourvèdre and Marsanne, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Muscat de Beaumes de Venise often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, cheese or apples and sometimes also flavors of white peach, raisin or mint.
The wine region of Rhone Valley
The Rhone Valley is a key wine-producing region in Southeastern France. It follows the North-south course of the Rhône for nearly 240 km, from Lyon to the Rhône delta (Bouches-du-Rhône), near the Mediterranean coast. The Length of the valley means that Rhône wines are the product of a wide variety of soil types and mesoclimates. The viticultural areas of the region cover such a distance that there is a widely accepted division between its northern and southern parts.
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Onwards, upwards. The roads get narrower, the corners get tighter. I step out of the car when I finally reach the winery and the air is so much fresher here. I go to take a sip from my water bottle and a gust of wind makes it whistle. I stand with Thomas Jullien and we look over the vineyards. It’s not yet spring, and the vines look little more than sticks. ‘It’s a lunar landscape at the moment,’ he says, as a friend’s flock of 300 sheep has just passed through to graze on every scrap of green b ...
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Walls: Tasting Hermitage 2001 20 years on
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The word of the wine: Grafting
A method used since the phylloxera crisis, consisting of fixing a graft of local origin on a rootstock resistant to phylloxera.