Domaine Bois de BoursanSélection RR Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Red wine
This wine generally goes well with pork, poultry or lamb.
Food and wine pairings with Sélection RR Châteauneuf-du-Pape
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The Sélection RR Châteauneuf-du-Pape of Domaine Bois de Boursan matches generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .
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Discover the grape variety: Mourvèdre
Mourvèdre noir is a grape variety originating from Spain. 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 medium to large bunches, and grapes of medium size. Mourvèdre noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Rhône valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.
Informations about the Domaine Bois de Boursan
The Domaine Bois de Boursan is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 4 wines for sale in the of Châteauneuf-du-Pape to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Châteauneuf-du-Pape
The wine region of Châteauneuf-du-Pape is located in the region of Rhône méridional of Rhone Valley of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Pegau or the Château Rayas produce mainly wines red and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Châteauneuf-du-Pape are Mourvèdre, Roussanne and Clairette, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Châteauneuf-du-Pape often reveals types of flavors of iron, chestnut or red licorice and sometimes also flavors of tarragon, pencil shavings or cured meat.
The wine region of Rhone Valley
The Rhone Valley is a key wine-producing region in Southeastern France. It follows the North-south course of the Rhône for nearly 240 km, from Lyon to the Rhône delta (Bouches-du-Rhône), near the Mediterranean coast. The Length of the valley means that Rhône wines are the product of a wide variety of soil types and mesoclimates. The viticultural areas of the region cover such a distance that there is a widely accepted division between its northern and southern parts.
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Layers of colour in the sky before me: indigo, peach, salmon. In the rear-view mirror, the gold was catching fire. As I drove down through the lonely, Mistral-chilled vines of Babeau-Bouldoux towards nearby St-Chinian, I was thinking about what Christine Deleuze of Clos Bagatelle had just said. ‘When you came to visit 10 years ago,’ she reminded me, ‘you said we needed to wait another decade for a market breakthrough. Today you’ve said we need to wait another decade or two. So when, exactly, wil ...
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 ...
Walls: Domaine de la Janasse, Vieilles Vignes 2011-2000 vertical
Some Châteauneufs are more reliable than others. When I visit the region to taste the new vintage every year, Domaine de la Janasse’s cuvée Vieilles Vignes regularly features among the best. It’s a particularly dense and concentrated wine when young, and it always strikes me that, even for Châteauneuf, it’s a wine that needs extended ageing to show its best. I was keen to acquire a more complete understanding of how this cuvée develops, so I visited brother-and-sister team Isabelle and Christoph ...
The word of the wine: Stabilization
All the treatments intended for the good conservation of wines.
