Winery Castel FreresCheval de Mer Méditerranée
Sparkling wine
This wine generally goes well with beef, lamb or mature and hard cheese.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Cheval de Mer Méditerranée of Winery Castel Freres in the region of Provence often reveals types of flavors of grapefruit, peach or strawberries and sometimes also flavors of raspberry, microbio or tree fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Cheval de Mer Méditerranée
Pairings that work perfectly with Cheval de Mer Méditerranée
Original food and wine pairings with Cheval de Mer Méditerranée
The Cheval de Mer Méditerranée of Winery Castel Freres matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of quick and easy monkfish tail, eggplant moussaka with lamb or pakistani rice (biryani).
Details and technical informations about Winery Castel Freres's Cheval de Mer Méditerranée.
Discover the grape variety: Chatus
Structured, colourful reds with a dark, intense ruby color, firm tannins and a dense palate, offering intense aromas of black fruits (blackberry, blackcurrant), plum, black cherry, spices, pepper and balsamic notes. Fine cellaring potential, rustic profile. Nearly extinct after phylloxera, undergoing an identity revival among Ardèche winemakers in IGP Cévennes and IGP Ardèche. French indigenous variety from the Cévennes Ardéchoises, a pre-phylloxera heritage witness.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Cheval de Mer Méditerranée from Winery Castel Freres are 2016
Informations about the Winery Castel Freres
The Winery Castel Freres is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 88 wines for sale in the of Provence to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Provence
World capital of dry, refined rosé (~90% of production). Pale rose-petal colour, delicate nose of fresh red fruits (strawberry, raspberry, redcurrant), citrus (pink grapefruit), white flowers and a mineral touch, taut and thirst-quenching palate — the Mediterranean aperitif par excellence. Blends of Grenache, Cinsault, Syrah, Tibouren and Mourvèdre. Fleshy Bandol reds from Mourvèdre (leather, garrigue, age-worthy), straight Cassis whites.
The word of the wine: Thinning out
Operation consisting in eliminating the suckers that grow on the vine stocks.
