The Winery Alex Foillard of Côte de Brouilly of Beaujolais

Winery Alex Foillard
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.
It is ranked in the top 2 of the estates of Beaujolais.
It is located in Côte de Brouilly in the region of Beaujolais

The Winery Alex Foillard is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Côte de Brouilly to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Alex Foillard wines

Looking for the best Winery Alex Foillard wines in Côte de Brouilly among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Alex Foillard 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 Alex Foillard wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Alex Foillard

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Alex Foillard

How Winery Alex Foillard wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of pasta with tuna and tomato sauce, vitello tonnato or sloth pork loin.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Alex Foillard

On the nose the red wine of Winery Alex Foillard. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, earthy or floral and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit, vegetal or leather. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Alex Foillard. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Alex Foillard

  • 2016With an average score of 4.01/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.98/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.97/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2020With an average score of 3.80/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Alex Foillard.

  • Gamay

Discovering the wine region of Côte de Brouilly

The Côte de Beaujolais/brouilly">Brouilly is one of the 10 crus appellations of the Beaujolais region. It covers the slopes of the dormant volcano of Mont Brouilly in Central Beaujolais. The area is entirely surrounded by the vineyards of the much larger Brouilly appellation, but it is home to a significantly different style of wine, made from the Gamay Grape. Côte de Brouilly wines are concentrated and Elegant, with Floral">floral characters, and are less earthy than their Brouilly counterparts.

The appellation covers only red wines. However, legislation allows a small amount of white grapes in addition to Gamay. The wine growers can use Chardonnay, Aligoté or Melon de Bourgogne. The Côte de Brouilly appellation covers one of the smallest areas of all the Beaujolais crus, and is also one of the most southerly.

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Discover the grape variety: Pé de perdrix

This grape variety would be of Spanish origin, it was in this country mainly used as table grape. The Pé de perdrix has now completely disappeared. It should not be confused with the pied de perdrix, which is the red-tailed côt with black grapes.

News about Winery Alex Foillard and wines from the region

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Chardonnay

Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Chardonnay, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are available in French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Bourgogne ...

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Prissé

Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Prissé, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are available in French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneWine ...

Geographical denomination: The first step towards the notion of terroir – Focus Bourgogne

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The word of the wine: Naturé

See savagnin.