Winery Andre QuancardChâteau les Girotins Sauternes
Sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with fruity desserts and blue cheese.
Food and wine pairings with Château les Girotins Sauternes
Pairings that work perfectly with Château les Girotins Sauternes
Original food and wine pairings with Château les Girotins Sauternes
The Château les Girotins Sauternes of Winery Andre Quancard matches generally quite well with dishes of fruity desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of rice with milk or gnocchi with bacon and roquefort cheese.
Details and technical informations about Winery Andre Quancard's Château les Girotins Sauternes.
Discover the grape variety: Mondeuse
Mondeuse noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Savoie). 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 medium to large bunches, and grapes of medium size. Mondeuse noir can be found in many vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Savoie & Bugey, Languedoc & Roussillon, Loire Valley, Provence & Corsica, Rhône Valley, Beaujolais.
Informations about the Winery Andre Quancard
The Winery Andre Quancard is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 93 wines for sale in the of Sauternes to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Sauternes
Sauternes, 65 km South of Bordeaux, is a Village renowned for its high quality Sweet wines. Although some wineries produce Dry wines, they sell them under other appellations than Sauternes, which is specific to sweet wines. The village is surrounded on all sides by vineyards, the best of which produce some of the most prestigious, long-lasting and expensive dessert wines in the world. A half bottle of premium, aged Sauternes from a good Vintage can sell for over $1,000.
The wine region of Bordeaux
Bordeaux, in southwestern France, is one of the most famous, prestigious and prolific wine regions in the world. The majority of Bordeaux wines (nearly 90% of the production Volume) are the Dry, medium and Full-bodied red Bordeaux blends for which it is famous. The finest (and most expensive) are the wines of the great châteaux of Haut-Médoc and the right bank appellations of Saint-Émilion and Pomerol. The former focuses (at the highest level) on Cabernet Sauvignon, the latter on Merlot.
The word of the wine: Tiled
Said of the colour of an evolved wine that has taken on brick and orange hues.
