The Winery Cailhol Gautran is one of the world's great estates. It offers 21 wines for sale in of Minervois to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Cailhol Gautran wines in Minervois among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Cailhol Gautran 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 Cailhol Gautran wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Cailhol Gautran wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal such as recipes of spit-turned boar leg (oven) with "automatic watering"., spaghetti with courgettes and italian ham or potjevlesch (northern france).
On the nose the red wine of Winery Cailhol Gautran. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, oak. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Cailhol Gautran. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
Minervois is an appellation for distinctive red wines from the western Languedoc region of France. In general, they are softer than those produced in the Corbières, just to the South. The Minervois appellation also covers rosé and white wines. The predominant Grape varieties used in AOC Minervois wines are Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre.
Together with the rarer Lledoner Pelut (or Lladoner Pelut), they must make up at least 60% of the blend. Carignan and Cinsaut are Part of the supporting wines that can represent 40% of the blend. The white wines of the appellation vary considerably in quality and style. They are made from the grape varieties Vermentino, Roussanne, Marsanne, Bourboulenc and Grenache Blanc.
How Winery Cailhol Gautran wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of pasta with tuna, garlic and lemon cream, cream and tuna quiche or savoyard pizza (cream base).
In the mouth the white wine of Winery Cailhol Gautran. is a with a nice freshness.
Marsanne is a white grape variety that originated in Montélimar in the Drôme, several centuries ago. Marsanne is also found in Cassis, Savoie, Languedoc-Roussillon and Saint-Péray in the Ardèche, where it produces remarkable sparkling wines. The warm, sunny climate of the Rhone Valley, Languedoc-Roussillon and Provence, as well as the dry, stony soil, are ideal conditions for its development. Its bunches are quite large and provide small, juicy berries that are sensitive to grey rot and strong winds. These two grape varieties complement each other perfectly: together they give light wines with little acidity, aromas of yellow fruit, white fruit and flowers with notes of honey and liquorice. This is for example what the appellations Saint-Péray, Hermitage, Crozes-Hermitage, Saint-Joseph, Côtes-du-Vallée du Rhône, Corbières, or Cassis express... which represent about 700 hectares.
How Winery Cailhol Gautran wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of spaghetti with beef balls, zucchini quiche or steamed carrots with saffron.
In the mouth the pink wine of Winery Cailhol Gautran. is a with a nice freshness.
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.
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White muscat is a white grape variety of Greek origin. Present in several Mediterranean vineyards, it has several synonyms such as muscat de Die, muscat blanc and frontignac. In France, it occupies a little less than 7,000 ha out of a total of 45,000 ha worldwide. Its young shoots are downy. Its youngest leaves are shiny, bronzed and scabrous. The berries and bunches of this variety are all medium-sized. The flesh of the berries is juicy, sweet and firm. Muscat à petits grains has a second ripening period and buds early in the year. It is moderately vigorous and must be pruned short. It likes poor, stony slopes. This variety is often exposed to spring frosts. It fears mildew, wasps, grape worms, court-noué, grey rot and powdery mildew. Muscat à petits grains is used to make rosé wines and dry white wines. Orange, brown sugar, barley sugar and raisins are the known aromas of these wines.
