Winery Balgownie EstateBlack Label Cabernet Franc - Shiraz
Red wine
This wine generally goes well with pork, poultry or beef.
The Black Label Cabernet Franc - Shiraz of the Winery Balgownie Estate is in the top 40 of wines of Bendigo.
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The Black Label Cabernet Franc - Shiraz of Winery Balgownie Estate matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of savoyard matafans, bitumen leg of lamb or oven roasted rabbit that cooks itself!.
Details and technical informations about Winery Balgownie Estate's Black Label Cabernet Franc - Shiraz.
Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc
Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.
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Informations about the Winery Balgownie Estate
The Winery Balgownie Estate is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 37 wines for sale in the of Bendigo to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Bendigo
The wine region of Bendigo is located in the region of Central Victoria of Victoria of Australia. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Black Jack or the Domaine Black Jack produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Bendigo are Cabernet-Sauvignon, Viognier and Chardonnay, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Bendigo often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or red fruit.
The wine region of Victoria
Victoria is a relatively small but important Australian wine state. Located in the Southeastern corner of the continent, with a generally cool, ocean-influenced Climate, Victorian wine is remarkably diverse, producing all sorts of wines and styles in different climates. In all, the state covers almost 250,000 square kilometres (over 90,000 square miles) of land (almost the same Size as the US state of Texas), well under a quarter the size of its western neighbour, South Australia, and less than a third the size of New South Wales to the North. As such, Victoria's size - and to some extent, the state's viticultural history - can defy generalization.
The word of the wine: Rootstock
American vine on which a French vine is grafted. This is the consequence of the phylloxera that destroyed the vineyard at the end of the 19th century: after much trial and error, it was discovered that the "pest" spared the roots of the American vines, and the technique became widespread.
