The Winery Cru Barréjats of Sauternes of Bordeaux

Winery Cru Barréjats - Sauternes
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.1.
It is ranked in the top 104 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Sauternes in the region of Bordeaux

The Winery Cru Barréjats is one of the best wineries to follow in Sauternes.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Sauternes to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Cru Barréjats wines

Looking for the best Winery Cru Barréjats wines in Sauternes among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Cru Barréjats 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 Winery Cru Barréjats wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top sweet wines of Winery Cru Barréjats

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Cru Barréjats

How Winery Cru Barréjats wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of fruity desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of yoghurt cake or provencal quiche with roquefort cheese.

Organoleptic analysis of sweet wines of Winery Cru Barréjats

On the nose the sweet wine of Winery Cru Barréjats. often reveals types of flavors of citrus, apricot or honey and sometimes also flavors of non oak, earth or oak. In the mouth the sweet wine of Winery Cru Barréjats. is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Winery Cru Barréjats

  • 2004With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 1999With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 1995With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 1998With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2001With an average score of 3.70/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Winery Cru Barréjats.

  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Sémillon

Discovering the wine region of Sauternes

Sauternes, 65 km South of Bordeaux, is a Village renowned for its high quality Sweet wines. Although some wineries produce Dry wines, they sell them under other appellations than Sauternes, which is specific to sweet wines. The village is surrounded on all sides by vineyards, the best of which produce some of the most prestigious, long-lasting and expensive dessert wines in the world. A half bottle of premium, aged Sauternes from a good Vintage can sell for over $1,000.

Classic Sauternes has a DeepGoldenColor (darker than most other dessert wines), which turns a deep amber color with bottle age. Its aromas include flower and stone fruit, with a hint of honeysuckle - the hallmark of botrytized wines. The best wines balance sweetness with acidity, concentration with freshness and power with elegance. Sauternes wines are primarily made from the Sémillon grape, which accounts for about eight out of every ten vines in the local vineyard.

Sauvignon Blanc accounts for most of the remaining vineyard and is the dominant grape in a small handful of Sauternes wines. Semillon forms a broad, well-structured base with aromas of beeswax and apricot, while Sauvignon Blanc contributes its characteristic herbal aromas and enough acidity to keep the resulting wine fresh rather than mouthwatering. These two varieties (sometimes supplemented by a small amount of Muscadelle and Sauvignon Gris) have become the preferred varieties here, not only because they are also used to make dry white Bordeaux wines, but also because of their susceptibility to a particular type of fungus, Botrytis cinerea (often just botrytis). Apart from yeast, without which the grape juice cannot ferment into wine, one would not expect a fungus to play a key role in winemaking.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Cru Barréjats

Planning a wine route in the of Sauternes? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Cru Barréjats.

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon

Sauvignon Gris is a grape variety that originated in France (South-West). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches and small grapes. Sauvignon Gris can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Burgundy, Jura, Beaujolais, Armagnac, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey.

News about Winery Cru Barréjats and wines from the region

AXA Millésime appoints new technical director of Pichon Baron

Montégut, who is already technical director of the Premier Cru Classé estate Château Suduiraut in Sauternes, will replace Jean-René Matignon who last year announced his intention to step down after more than 30 years in the role. He will formally take on his new responsibilities from the end of April when Matignon retires. Having worked together with Montégut since his arrival at Suduiraut in 2004, Christian Seely, MD of owner AXA Millésimes, said that during this time, Montégut had been respons ...

Château Climens gets new majority owner after stake sale

Château Climens owner Lurton has sold a majority stake in the prestigious, Barsac-based estate to Jean-Hubert Moitry and his family, via the family’s Patrimonia Développement group, it was announced this week. It marks the Moitry family’s first investment in the wine sector, and represents a major deal in the Bordeaux wine world. Financial details weren’t disclosed. Nicknamed ‘Lord of Barsac’, Climens is one of the Premier Grand Cru Classé estates of Sauternes and Barsac listed in Bordeaux ...

Stephen Brook: ‘It is astonishing how rapidly changes can take place in the Bordeaux region’

My book The Complete Bordeaux, which has been revised every five years, is soon to be published in its fourth edition. This may seem like excessive haste, given the scope of the book, but it is astonishing how rapidly changes can take place in the region. Burgundy, in contrast, is relatively stable, since most properties are family-owned and tend to stay that way. But not so in Bordeaux, where there are ample opportunities for newcomers to acquire established properties, as they have been doing ...

The word of the wine: Full-bodied

A rich, concentrated wine that offers consistency in the mouth.