The Winery Castel de Brames of Gaillac of South West

Winery Castel de Brames - Serena Prunelard Gaillac Rouge
The winery offers 19 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is ranked in the top 259 of the estates of South West.
It is located in Gaillac in the region of South West

The Winery Castel de Brames is one of the best wineries to follow in Gaillac.. It offers 19 wines for sale in of Gaillac to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Castel de Brames wines

Looking for the best Winery Castel de Brames wines in Gaillac among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Castel de Brames 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 Castel de Brames wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Castel de Brames

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Castel de Brames

How Winery Castel de Brames wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of monkfish with vegetable tagliatelle, lamb shoulder confit with harissa or pasta with puttanesca sauce.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Castel de Brames

  • 2015With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.47/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Castel de Brames.

  • Duras
  • Prunelard
  • Shiraz/Syrah

Discovering the wine region of Gaillac

The wine region of Gaillac is located in the region of Haut-Pays of South West of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Robert & Bernard Plageoles or the Château de Saurs produce mainly wines red, white and sweet. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Gaillac are Duras, Merlot and Mauzac, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Gaillac often reveals types of flavors of earth, leather or vanilla and sometimes also flavors of butter, melon or strawberries.

In the mouth of Gaillac is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 202 estates and châteaux in the of Gaillac, producing 936 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Gaillac go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison).

The top white wines of Winery Castel de Brames

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Castel de Brames

How Winery Castel de Brames wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

Discover the grape variety: Duras

Duras noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Tarn). 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-sized bunches and small grapes. Duras noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Armagnac, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Languedoc & Roussillon.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Castel de Brames

Planning a wine route in the of Gaillac? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Castel de Brames.

Discover the grape variety: Prunelard

Prunelard noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Tarn). 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 bunches, and grapes of medium size. The Prunelard noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Rhone valley, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

News about Winery Castel de Brames and wines from the region

Bordeaux ‘Act for Change’ symposium

The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C  in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...

Best in Show: The top 50 wines of DWWA 2022

The 0.27% of entries awarded Best in Show at this year’s Decanter World Wine Awards reflect the inspiring world of wine and quest for quality among winemakers globally, with 50 wines expressing the best of their categories. An all-time record for wines tasted at the world’s largest wine competition, it’s quite possible that Decanter World Wine Awards 2022 marks the largest-ever wine competition to be held in history. And of the record-breaking 18,244 wines tasted, just 50 were ...

Laggan Bay whisky distillery to open on Islay

Plans have been approved for what will become Islay’s 12th Scotch malt whisky distillery. Laggan Bay is set to be developed by whisky bottlers and brewers The Islay Boys, in association with Ian Macleod Distillers. Argyll and Bute Council has granted planning permission for the distillery, which The Islay Boys said will produce ‘a traditional, double-distillation Islay whisky’, at Glenegedale in Laggan Bay, close to the island’s airport. The new development, on a two-hectare site, will also incl ...

The word of the wine: Botrytis

Fungus that causes grape rot.