Winery Antoine MoueixHaut-Sauternes
Sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with fruity desserts and blue cheese.
Food and wine pairings with Haut-Sauternes
Pairings that work perfectly with Haut-Sauternes
Original food and wine pairings with Haut-Sauternes
The Haut-Sauternes of Winery Antoine Moueix matches generally quite well with dishes of fruity desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of tarte tatin or duck breast with gnocchi and roquefort sauce.
Details and technical informations about Winery Antoine Moueix's Haut-Sauternes.
Discover the grape variety: Perle de Csaba
Table grape with medium bunches and golden berries with thin skin and aromatic muscat flesh, with a characteristic sweet aromatic flavour (rose, fresh grape). Very early ripening. Grown for fresh consumption in Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, marking the early summer season at Central European market stalls with its aromatic early-season table grapes. Hungarian table grape variety obtained in 1904 by Stark Adolf at Csaba (Chasselas × Muscat Ottonel).
Informations about the Winery Antoine Moueix
The Winery Antoine Moueix is one of wineries to follow in Sauternes.. It offers 80 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: Barrel
Bordeaux barrel of 225 litres, used to determine the tonneau (unit of measurement corresponding to four barrels, or 900 litres).
