Winery Barrière FrèresExtra Sélection Haut-Sauternes
Sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with fruity desserts and blue cheese.
Food and wine pairings with Extra Sélection Haut-Sauternes
Pairings that work perfectly with Extra Sélection Haut-Sauternes
Original food and wine pairings with Extra Sélection Haut-Sauternes
The Extra Sélection Haut-Sauternes of Winery Barrière Frères matches generally quite well with dishes of fruity desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of apple cake or pot of green cabbage with potatoes and roquefort cheese.
Details and technical informations about Winery Barrière Frères's Extra Sélection Haut-Sauternes.
Discover the grape variety: Roi des blancs
Interspecific crossing carried out in 1891 by Fernand Gaillard (1821-1905) between (triumph x eumelan) and 1 Seibel. This direct-producing hybrid was multiplied in particular in the south-west and centre-west of France as well as in the departments of the Rhône valley and the Ain.
Informations about the Winery Barrière Frères
The Winery Barrière Frères is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 59 wines for sale in the of Sauternes to come and discover on site or to buy online.
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.
The wine region of Bordeaux
Bordeaux, in southwestern France, is one of the most famous, prestigious and prolific wine regions in the world. The majority of Bordeaux wines (nearly 90% of the production Volume) are the Dry, medium and Full-bodied red Bordeaux blends for which it is famous. The finest (and most expensive) are the wines of the great châteaux of Haut-Médoc and the right bank appellations of Saint-Émilion and Pomerol. The former focuses (at the highest level) on Cabernet Sauvignon, the latter on Merlot.
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Bordeaux has a history of extraordinary women running vineyards. In Sauternes & Barsac Françoise-Joséphine d’Yquem was imprisoned twice during the French revolution but managed to save both her neck and Château d’Yquem, 1er Grand Cru Classé Supérieur Sauternes. She then dedicated herself to her property, and introduced the practice of ‘tries successives’ or multiple passes through the vineyard during harvest to collect botrytised grapes at maximum maturity, transforming the quality of wines ...
Rare Lafite 1887 magnum tops £22,000 in Sotheby’s auction
A magnum of Lafite Rothschild 1887 sold for £22,500 ($28,300) at a Sotheby’s auction of ‘vinous treasures’ spanning nearly 200 years. The wine, held in storage with Octavian group in Wiltshire, had a pre-sale high estimate of £18,000. A single bottle of Château d’Yquem 1831 sold for £27,500 (pre-sale high estimate: £20,000). Another bottle of Yquem, from the 1896 vintage, sold for £15,000, tripling its pre-sale high estimate. ‘An extraordinary wine from a very great Sauternes vintage,’ said Sere ...
The word of the wine: Trading
Term used to designate the wine trade and related professions. Sometimes used in contrast to viticulture.
