Winery Famille BougrierCabernet Franc Chinon
Red wine
This wine generally goes well with pork, poultry or beef.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Cabernet Franc Chinon of Winery Famille Bougrier in the region of Loire Valley often reveals types of flavors of cherry, butter or black currant and sometimes also flavors of chocolate, microbio or oak.
Food and wine pairings with Cabernet Franc Chinon
Pairings that work perfectly with Cabernet Franc Chinon
Original food and wine pairings with Cabernet Franc Chinon
The Cabernet Franc Chinon of Winery Famille Bougrier matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of wild boar with honey, sauté of pork with cider or duck breast with spices, roasted figs with honey and port.
Details and technical informations about Winery Famille Bougrier's Cabernet Franc Chinon.
Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc
Supple, fragrant reds with fine tannins and vibrant freshness, showing raspberry, violet, green pepper, pencil lead and gentle spice aromas. Star of the Loire as a single variety (Chinon, Bourgueil, Saumur-Champigny) and of the right bank of Bordeaux in blends (Cheval Blanc at 60%). Also in semi-dry Anjou rosés. A historic Bordeaux variety, parent of Cabernet-Sauvignon, Merlot and Carmenère.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Cabernet Franc Chinon from Winery Famille Bougrier are 2018, 2016, 2017
Informations about the Winery Famille Bougrier
The Winery Famille Bougrier is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 139 wines for sale in the of Chinon to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Chinon
Northern limit of Cabernet Franc in France on the south bank of the Loire in Touraine: velvety, balanced reds with aromas of strawberry, raspberry, cherry, blackcurrant and sweet spices (vanilla, cinnamon), supple tannins and digestible freshness. Light, fruity wines from gravel soils, more structured and mineral tuffeau wines suited to ageing. Also lively rosés and rare Chenin whites. Touraine AOC west of Tours, one of France's northernmost red appellations, from everyday to age-worthy bottles.
The wine region of Loire Valley
Kingdom of lively, dry whites and fine sparklers. Mineral, taut Sauvignon Blanc (Sancerre, Pouilly-Fumé) with citrus and gunflint notes. Multiform Chenin Blanc (Vouvray, Savennières, Layon): straight dry, floral off-dry or noble sweet honey-quince. Saline, iodised Muscadet (Melon B.
The word of the wine: White Grenache
White grape variety cultivated mainly in Spain and a little in the south of France (southern Rhône valley, Languedoc-Roussillon). It is the white variety of Grenache noir. It is used in the blending of several white wines (dry wines or natural sweet wines) to which it gives richness, fatness and floral notes.
