Winery Armand HurstVieilles Vignes Muscat
White wine
This wine generally goes well with spicy food and sweet desserts.
Food and wine pairings with Vieilles Vignes Muscat
Pairings that work perfectly with Vieilles Vignes Muscat
Original food and wine pairings with Vieilles Vignes Muscat
The Vieilles Vignes Muscat of Winery Armand Hurst matches generally quite well with dishes of spicy food or sweet desserts such as recipes of chicken tajine with prunes or the coughing cat's apple crumble.
Details and technical informations about Winery Armand Hurst's Vieilles Vignes Muscat.
Discover the grape variety: Petit Bouschet
Intensely colored and supple reds with a deep, near-opaque purple robe, light tannins and a dense palate, showing signature aromas of black fruits (blackberry, blackcurrant), plum, spices and vinous notes. Powerful dye-grape profile with red-fleshed pulp. Formerly planted en masse in the South of France to intensify the color of Mediterranean blends. French black teinturier grape obtained in 1824 by Louis Bouschet, aramon × teinturier du Cher, parent of Alicante Bouschet.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Vieilles Vignes Muscat from Winery Armand Hurst are 2016
Informations about the Winery Armand Hurst
The Winery Armand Hurst is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 56 wines for sale in the of Alsace to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Alsace
Capital of great French aromatic whites, most often dry and single-varietal. Straight, mineral Riesling (lemon, gunflint), opulent, exuberant Gewurztraminer (lychee, rose, spices), round, smoky Pinot Gris, floral, crisp Muscat, supple Pinot Blanc. Fine, fruity Crémants d'Alsace, exceptional sweet Vendanges Tardives and Sélection de Grains Nobles. 15,500 ha at the foot of the Vosges on varied soils, 51 Grands Crus since 1975.
The word of the wine: Liquid
Sweet wine containing more than 50 grams of residual sugar per liter. Sweet wines are made from grapes often affected by botrytis cinerea and concentrated either by passerillage (drying of the grapes on the vine stock), or after the harvest (straw wines), or by the cold (ice wines).
