The Château Bizard of Grignan-les-Adhémar of Rhone Valley

Château Bizard - 1862
The winery offers 10 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 2 of the estates of Rhone Valley.
It is located in Grignan-les-Adhémar in the region of Rhone Valley
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The Château Bizard is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 10 wines for sale in of Grignan-les-Adhémar to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Bizard wines

Looking for the best Château Bizard wines in Grignan-les-Adhémar among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Bizard 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 Château Bizard wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château Bizard

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Bizard

How Château Bizard wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of cabri en colombo with creole sauce, grandma melanie's cassoulet or home-made cassoulet.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Bizard

On the nose the red wine of Château Bizard. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, blackberry or plum and sometimes also flavors of earth, oak or spices. In the mouth the red wine of Château Bizard. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Bizard

  • 2007With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.03/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2013With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.95/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.88/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Bizard.

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Grenache
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Grignan-les-Adhémar

The wine region of Grignan-les-Adhémar is located in the region of Rhône méridional of Rhone Valley of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine de Grangeneuve or the Château Bizard produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Grignan-les-Adhémar are Mourvèdre, Viognier and Roussanne, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Grignan-les-Adhémar often reveals types of flavors of earth, almonds or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit, tropical fruit or green almond.

In the mouth of Grignan-les-Adhémar is a powerful with a nice freshness. We currently count 92 estates and châteaux in the of Grignan-les-Adhémar, producing 242 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Grignan-les-Adhémar go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or mature and hard cheese.

The top white wines of Château Bizard

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Château Bizard

How Château Bizard wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of traditional welsh dark beer, mackerel in white wine or gratin of ratatouille with comté cheese.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Château Bizard

In the mouth the white wine of Château Bizard. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Château Bizard

  • 2019With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.78/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Château Bizard.

  • Marsanne
  • Roussanne
  • Grenache Blanc
  • Viognier

Discover the grape variety: Roussanne

Roussane is a white grape variety, planted on an area of more than 700 ha. Originally from Montélimar, it is also found in Savoie, Languedoc and Roussillon, and grows very well in calcareous, poor, stony soil. It prefers to be pruned short. Roussane is also called fromenteau, barbin or bergeron. The young leaves are bubbled with fine down. When adult, they become thicker. It flowers in June and matures in mid-September. The grapes are cylindrical in shape, the berries are small and turn red when ripe, and the wine produced from pure Roussane is of extraordinary quality. It has a delicate aroma reminiscent of coffee, honeysuckle, iris and peony. The taste of this wine improves with age. It is part of the blend of the appellations Vin-de-Savoie, Côtes-du-Vallée du Rhône or Châteauneuf-du-Pape.

The top pink wines of Château Bizard

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Château Bizard

How Château Bizard wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of andouillette and baked potato gratin, salmon steaks with lemon and shallot sauce or shrimp with oyster sauce.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Château Bizard

  • 2018With an average score of 3.90/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Château Bizard.

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Grenache

The word of the wine: Musty (taste of)

A disgusting taste due to a defect in the grapes or, more commonly, a defect in the barrel.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Bizard

Planning a wine route in the of Grignan-les-Adhémar? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Bizard.

Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). 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 to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

News about Château Bizard and wines from the region

Christie’s 2021 DWWA charity wine auction sets new record

A total of £72,600 was raised from 79 lots at the sixteenth DWWA wine auction hosted by Christie’s on 2 December – beating a record set in 2018. This total excludes Christie’s buyer’s premium. All proceeds will be added to funds raised by Decanter throughout the DWWA this year. Charities supported include The Drinks Trust, WaterAid, Cancer Research UK, Change Please, Decanter Apprenticeships and more. Over the past 12 months, Decanter has donated in excess of £100,000 to these charities. T ...

Decanter World Wine Awards 2022: Results announced

The world’s largest and most influential wine competition, Decanter World Wine Awards results offer a definitive guide to the dynamic world of wine. Each year’s results offer surprises and revelations, highlighting growth in quality and consistency – or lack thereof. An all-time record for wines tasted, discover the results from the 19th edition of the competition. Quick links to DWWA 2022 results Search all Best in Show medals Search all Platinum medals Search all Gold medals Search ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘2021 has been the year of all the miseries’

How’s the weather been this year? Awful. ‘La nature m’écoeure’, one of my wine-growing friends posted on Facebook on 8 April, having been out to look at the frost-crippled shoots on his vines that morning: ‘Nature disgusts me’. It takes a lot to make a wine-grower feel that. He wasn’t alone. Jeremiads echo around the northern hemisphere as 2021 closes. It’s been the year of all the miseries. None suffered more horribly than the growers of Germany’s Ahr valley, where floodwaters caused by the fou ...

The word of the wine: Musty (taste of)

A disgusting taste due to a defect in the grapes or, more commonly, a defect in the barrel.

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