The Winery Alexandre Rochette & Cie of Hermitage of Rhone Valley

Winery Alexandre Rochette & Cie - Condrieu
The winery offers 10 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
This estate is part of the Montesquieu.
It is ranked in the top 19 of the estates of Rhone Valley.
It is located in Hermitage in the region of Rhone Valley

The Winery Alexandre Rochette & Cie is one of the world's great estates. It offers 10 wines for sale in of Hermitage to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Alexandre Rochette & Cie wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Alexandre Rochette & Cie

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Alexandre Rochette & Cie

How Winery Alexandre Rochette & Cie wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of nanie's diced ham quiche, sliced tuna with tomato sauce or pizza with beef and comté cheese.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Alexandre Rochette & Cie.

  • Viognier

Discovering the wine region of Hermitage

The wine region of Hermitage is located in the region of Rhône septentrional of Rhone Valley of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Jean-Louis Chave or the Domaine Jean-Louis Chave produce mainly wines red, white and sweet. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Hermitage are Marsanne, Roussanne and Mourvèdre, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Hermitage often reveals types of flavors of cherry, lavender or marzipan and sometimes also flavors of biscuits, yellow apple or petroleum.

In the mouth of Hermitage is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 84 estates and châteaux in the of Hermitage, producing 177 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Hermitage go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Alexandre Rochette & Cie

Planning a wine route in the of Hermitage? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Alexandre Rochette & Cie.

Discover the grape variety: Précoce de Malingre

Precoce de Malingre white is a grape variety that originated in France (Ile de France). 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 bunches, and grapes of small to medium size. The Precoce de Malingre white can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Loire Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

News about Winery Alexandre Rochette & Cie and wines from the region

Wartime Cognac

The French shipment of 600 bottles of De Haartman & Co Cognac – plus 15 boxes of Bénédictine liqueur – is believed to have been destined for Tsar Nicholas II, but was intercepted in the Baltic Sea and sunk by a German submarine in May 1917. Now Cognac house Birkedal Hartmann has refilled 300 of the recovered bottles with Cognac dating from the early 1900s, using packaging identical to the original, and is selling them for €9,000 each. The wreck of the SS Kyros was discovered by Swedish explo ...

Walls: Tasting Hermitage 2001 20 years on

In 2001, George W. Bush was sworn in as the 43rd President of the United States. Meanwhile in the UK, Tony Blair led the Labour Party to its second landslide victory. A lot can change over the course of 20 years. According to many Rhône winemakers and wine collectors, this is how long a bottle of Hermitage should lay undisturbed until you open it. Is it really worth the wait? I recently tasted 11 Hermitage 2001s – seven red, two white, two sweet – to test the 20 year hypothesis and see how these ...

Walls: Get to know the 20 lieux-dits of Hermitage

Not so long ago, most Hermitage was a blend of different vineyards from across the hill. However, since the 1990s we’ve seen an increasing range of single-vineyard wines being made. Getting a handle on the most important sites will help guide you to a style you enjoy, and even if you prefer blended wines, becoming familiar with the individual Hermitage lieux-dits will enrich your drinking experience. Scroll down to see Matt Walls’ tasting notes and scores for seven wines from Hermitage lie ...

The word of the wine: Closed

A flat wine that does not express its aromas.