The Winery Bénévent of Saint-Amour of Beaujolais

Winery Bénévent - Beaujolais Blanc
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 51 of the estates of Beaujolais.
It is located in Saint-Amour in the region of Beaujolais

The Winery Bénévent is one of the world's great estates. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Saint-Amour to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Bénévent wines

Looking for the best Winery Bénévent wines in Saint-Amour among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Bénévent 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 Bénévent wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Bénévent

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Bénévent

How Winery Bénévent wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

Discovering the wine region of Saint-Amour

Saint-Amour is the Northernmost of the ten Beaujolais crus, located just South of the Mâcon appellations of Pouilly-Fuisse and Saint-Véran. Saint-Amour wines are among the lightest of the Beaujolais crus, often displaying Spicy berry and stone fruit characters with a marked minerality. Just under 800 acres (320 ha) are planted with the Gamay Grape variety on the south and east facing hillsides on the western banks of the Saône River, and make up the Saint-Amour appellation's wine growing area. While most of the ten Beaujolais crus were created in the 1930s, Saint-Amour was only officially delimited as a cru in February 1946.

Today, it is one of the smallest appellations in Beaujolais, larger than Chenas alone. In the northern Part of Beaujolais, the landscape is more rugged than in the south, and the clay and silt soils composed mainly of schist and granite are complemented by smaller amounts of limestone. These lightly textured soils are often credited with the minerality that characterizes the wines of Saint-Amour. The hills to the west of the Beaujolais protect the vineyards of Saint-Amour from the weather coming from the north.

The top red wines of Winery Bénévent

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Bénévent

How Winery Bénévent wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of pasta with parmesan cream and ham, veal breast with new vegetables or stuffed potatoes.

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Bénévent.

  • Gamay

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News about Winery Bénévent and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Liquid

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