The Château du Barrailh is one of the world's great estates. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Graves to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Château du Barrailh wines in Graves among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château du Barrailh wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Château du Barrailh wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Château du Barrailh wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of barbecue burger, 7 o'clock leg of lamb or oven roasted rabbit with mustard.
On the nose the red wine of Château du Barrailh. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, smoke or earthy and sometimes also flavors of vanilla, plum or non oak. In the mouth the red wine of Château du Barrailh. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
Graves is a wine region on the left bank of the Bordeaux region of France, characterized by the gravel soils that give it its name. Unique among the sub-regions of Bordeaux, Graves is equally respected for its red and white wines. The AOC Graves, which covers both red and white wines, is the catch-all appellation of the district. A typical Graves red is based on the classic Bordeaux grapes, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, with Cabernet Franc, Malbec and Petit Verdot sometimes in a supporting role.
The typical white wine of Graves is Dry, medium-bodied and usually made from the equally familiar combination of Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon. About 2500 hectares of AOC Graves vineyards are devoted to red grapes, with about 750 hectares planted with white grapes. Average production is about 20 million bottles per year for white, red and Graves Supérieures wines. The latter share the same boundaries as Graves, but are a classification for Sweet white wines only, with about 150 hectares of dedicated vineyards.
How Château du Barrailh wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of roast pork with milk, quiche lorraine or milanese escalope (italy).
The white Mayorquin is a grape variety from Affrique du Nord. It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by large bunches and large grapes. You can find the white Mayorquin cultivated in these vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley.
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Most certainly Spanish, it is practically unknown in France, registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A2.
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In champagne and wines made according to the traditional method, wine is added before corking to fill the void in the bottle created by disgorging. This added wine is often sweetened by sugar incorporated in variable proportions according to the style of wine sought (see dosage). Syn.: liqueur de dosage.
