Winery BreauxCellar Selection Double Reserve Virginia Merlot
Red wine
This wine generally goes well with beef and game (deer, venison).
Food and wine pairings with Cellar Selection Double Reserve Virginia Merlot
Pairings that work perfectly with Cellar Selection Double Reserve Virginia Merlot
Original food and wine pairings with Cellar Selection Double Reserve Virginia Merlot
The Cellar Selection Double Reserve Virginia Merlot of Winery Breaux matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef tongue with mushrooms or venison leg marinated in white wine and grand marnier.
Details and technical informations about Winery Breaux's Cellar Selection Double Reserve Virginia Merlot.
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.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Cellar Selection Double Reserve Virginia Merlot from Winery Breaux are 2017, 0, 2016
Informations about the Winery Breaux
The Winery Breaux is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 56 wines for sale in the of Virginia to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Virginia
Virginia is a state on the eastern seaboard of the United States, located immediately South of Maryland and North of the Carolinas. The state covers 42,750 square miles (110,750 km2) of mountains, valleys and the Atlantic coastal Complex that forms its eastern border. From the Cumberland and Blue Ridge Mountains in the west to the coastal creeks and estuaries in the east, Virginia's topography and geology are varied, to say the least. The landscape around the Chesapeake Bay - a vast coastal inlet that separates the main state from its Eastern Shore - could hardly be more different from that below Mt Rogers (1,750m), 480km to the west.
The word of the wine: Chaptalization
The addition of sugar at the time of fermentation of the must, an ancient practice, but theorized by Jean-Antoine Chaptal at the dawn of the 19th century. The sugar is transformed into alcohol and allows the natural degree of the wine to be raised in a weak or cold year, or - more questionably - when the winegrower has a harvest that is too large to obtain good maturity.
