Winery Andre QuancardCuvée Excellence Sauternes
Sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with fruity desserts and blue cheese.
Food and wine pairings with Cuvée Excellence Sauternes
Pairings that work perfectly with Cuvée Excellence Sauternes
Original food and wine pairings with Cuvée Excellence Sauternes
The Cuvée Excellence Sauternes of Winery Andre Quancard matches generally quite well with dishes of fruity desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of tarte tatin or endives with ham and blue cheese.
Details and technical informations about Winery Andre Quancard's Cuvée Excellence Sauternes.
Discover the grape variety: Rossese nero
Fine, elegant reds with a pale ruby robe, fine tannins and an airy palate with fresh acidity, with signature aromas of small red fruits (cherry, raspberry), rose, violet and Mediterranean herbs. Perfumed Ligurian profile. Star of the Rossese di Dolceacqua DOC, producing the great refined reds of western Liguria. Autochthonous variety from Liguria, grown mainly in the Dolceacqua area, on the French border.
Informations about the Winery Andre Quancard
The Winery Andre Quancard is one of of the world's greatest 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
Iconic Bordeaux AOC for noble sweet wines, left bank of the Garonne. Golden whites with signature notes of honey, candied apricot, exotic fruit, orange peel, saffron and a finish tightened by chiselled acidity, opulent yet nervy palate — a great age-worthy wine of emotion. Botrytised Semillon dominates (Ciron 'noble rot') concentrating sugars, Sauvignon Blanc adds vivacity, Muscadelle perfume. ~1,416 ha across 5 villages.
The wine region of Bordeaux
World-renowned age-worthy reds, led by round Merlot (plum, black fruit) or firm Cabernet Sauvignon (blackcurrant, cedar, graphite), blended with Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot for tannic structure. Structured Médoc and Graves, velvety Saint-Émilion and Pomerol. Also crisp dry whites (Sauvignon/Sémillon) and opulent sweet Sauternes with honey and candied fruit. A 110,000 ha Gironde vineyard, 65 appellations, cradle of the 1855 classified growths.
The word of the wine: Burgundy piece
228-litre barrel.
