The Winery Benjamin Darnault is one of the best wineries to follow in Languedoc-Roussillon.. It offers 30 wines for sale in of Languedoc-Roussillon to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Benjamin Darnault wines in Languedoc-Roussillon among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Benjamin Darnault 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 Benjamin Darnault wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Benjamin Darnault wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal such as recipes of autumn beef bourguignon, basque lasagne or atriaux en sauce.
On the nose the red wine of Winery Benjamin Darnault. often reveals types of flavors of black fruit, violet or vanilla and sometimes also flavors of chocolate, cassis or cinnamon. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Benjamin Darnault. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
Languedoc (formerly Coteaux du Languedoc) is a key appellation used in the Languedoc-Roussillon wine region of southern France. It covers Dry table wines of all three colors (red, white and rosé) from the entire region, but leaves Sweet and Sparkling wines to other more specialized appellations. About 75% of all Languedoc wines are red, with the remaining 25% split roughly down the middle between whites and rosés. The appellation covers most of the Languedoc region and almost a third of all the vineyards in France.
The typical Languedoc red wine is medium-bodied and Fruity. The best examples are slightly heavier and have darker, more savoury aromas, with notes of spice, undergrowth and leather. The Grape varieties used to make them are the classic southern French ones: Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre, often with a touch of Carignan or Cinsaut. The white wines of the appellation are made from Grenache Blanc, Clairette and Bourboulenc, with occasional use of Viognier, Marsanne and Roussanne from the Rhône Valley.
How Winery Benjamin Darnault wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of soft and inexpensive pasta gratin, magic cake cheese quiche or home-made white pudding.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Benjamin Darnault. often reveals types of flavors of grapefruit, straw or lime and sometimes also flavors of mushroom, stone or toasty. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Benjamin Darnault. is a powerful.
Pinot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). 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. Pinot noir can be found in many vineyards: Burgundy, Alsace, Jura, South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Armagnac, Lorraine, Beaujolais, Rhône Valley, Provence & Corsica.
How Winery Benjamin Darnault wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of spicy food or sweet desserts such as recipes of chicken fajitas or the coughing cat's apple crumble.
On the nose the natural sweet wine of Winery Benjamin Darnault. often reveals types of flavors of pear, raisin or honey and sometimes also flavors of non oak, earth or microbio.
A physiological and chemical phenomenon that occurs in wine in the absence of oxygen. The smell of reduction is characterized by animal and sometimes fetid notes that disappear in principle with aeration. It is recommended to decant reduced wines.
How Winery Benjamin Darnault wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of pasta gratin, quiche with bacon and gruyère cheese or pretzels (alsace).
On the nose the pink wine of Winery Benjamin Darnault. often reveals types of flavors of cream, melon or rose petal and sometimes also flavors of nectarine, floral or black fruit. In the mouth the pink wine of Winery Benjamin Darnault. is a with a nice freshness.
The black Tempranillo is a grape variety native to Spain. 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 medium-sized bunches and medium-sized grapes. The black Tempranillo can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.
How Winery Benjamin Darnault wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, poultry or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of stuffed squid, chicken breast with cream and mushrooms or stuffed sea almonds with cream cheese.
On the nose the sparkling wine of Winery Benjamin Darnault. often reveals types of flavors of cream, apples or green apple and sometimes also flavors of minerality, lemon or pear.
Number of vines per hectare. For the same yield, a vine planted with 3,000 vines per hectare bears many more bunches (per vine) than a vine planted with 10,000. The grapes will therefore be less rich in sugar and polyphenols (tannins, aromas...).
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Grenache noir is a grape variety that originated in Spain. 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 medium to large bunches, and grapes of medium size. Grenache noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Languedoc & Roussillon, Rhone Valley, Loire Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.
The Roussillon is home to a range of wine styles, at varying price points. Sweet fortified wines (vin doux naturel) used to dominate production, with still dry wines (vin sec) in the minority. In the last 30 years, however, this has completely changed, and vin sec now makes up the majority (80%) of the Roussillon’s output. The recent Wines of Roussillon tasting, held in London, not only highlighted many good quality dry wines being produced, but also cemented the idea that Roussillon whites are ...
Many wine styles can seem perplexing at first: imagine the first bottle of Barolo if you only know Barossa Shiraz, or the first bottle of Jura Savagnin if you were brought up on California Chardonnay. With time, thought and repeated tasting, though, comes understanding. You learn each wine’s syntax and lexicon, its hints and inferences. You grasp the ways in which each style communicates. Its beauty dawns, then grows. Rosé wine sales grew 23% worldwide between 2002 and 2019. Its fuel has come fr ...
I’d like to say we took advantage of the lockdown and its related commotion to do a stock-take, explore new avenues, turn over intriguing stones, widen and deepen our drinking, taking careful notes as we went. Sadly, no. I won’t say we got stuck in a rut, but we did tend to stick with comfort wines – and “comfort”, in our case, means familiar. Regular readers of this quarterly column can probably guess the labels on the resulting empties. We have a wider range of comfort foods, I’m afraid, than ...
A physiological and chemical phenomenon that occurs in wine in the absence of oxygen. The smell of reduction is characterized by animal and sometimes fetid notes that disappear in principle with aeration. It is recommended to decant reduced wines.
