Château Bel-Air CoustutBordeaux Moelleux
Sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with vegetarian, poultry or rich fish (salmon, tuna etc).
Food and wine pairings with Bordeaux Moelleux
Pairings that work perfectly with Bordeaux Moelleux
Original food and wine pairings with Bordeaux Moelleux
The Bordeaux Moelleux of Château Bel-Air Coustut matches generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or sweet desserts such as recipes of salmon steaks with soy sauce, cuttlefish rust from my grandmother in sète or brownies with nuts.
Details and technical informations about Château Bel-Air Coustut's Bordeaux Moelleux.
Discover the grape variety: Palomino
Structured dry whites transformed by oxidation and flor into great fortified wines, with a pale golden to amber color, ample palate, offering signature aromas of nuts, almond, bruised apple, yeast (flor), iodine and saline marine notes. A unique profile in the world. Star of Jerez DO, excelling as Fino, Manzanilla, Amontillado and Oloroso. Spanish indigenous variety from Andalusia, one of the most emblematic in the country.
Informations about the Château Bel-Air Coustut
The Château Bel-Air Coustut is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 5 wines for sale in the of Bordeaux Moelleux to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Bordeaux Moelleux
Emblematic style of Bordeaux off-dry whites (10-50 g sugar/L), produced across the entire AOC area from over-ripened grapes (botrytised or passerillé). Signature Sémillon dominant: golden, round whites with signature notes of honey, apricot, candied fruits, citrus, vanilla and a quince touch, unctuous, fresh palate. Sauvignon Blanc brings taut acidity, Muscadelle the floral aromatic. Accessible, gastronomic style, affordable alternative to Sauternes.
The wine region of Bordeaux
World-renowned age-worthy reds, led by round Merlot (plum, black fruit) or firm Cabernet Sauvignon (blackcurrant, cedar, graphite), blended with Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot for tannic structure. Structured Médoc and Graves, velvety Saint-Émilion and Pomerol. Also crisp dry whites (Sauvignon/Sémillon) and opulent sweet Sauternes with honey and candied fruit. A 110,000 ha Gironde vineyard, 65 appellations, cradle of the 1855 classified growths.
The word of the wine: Grenache gris
A grey variety of Grenache grown in the Pyrénées-Orientales, the Aude and the southern Rhône valley. Its powerful and round wines are used in the blending of dry white or rosé wines and natural sweet wines.
