The Cave Chantespan of Rhône méridional of Rhone Valley

Cave Chantespan
The winery offers 11 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.2.
It is ranked in the top 7686 of the estates of Rhone Valley.
It is located in Rhône méridional in the region of Rhone Valley

The Cave Chantespan is one of the best wineries to follow in Rhône méridional.. It offers 11 wines for sale in of Rhône méridional to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Cave Chantespan wines

Looking for the best Cave Chantespan wines in Rhône méridional among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Cave Chantespan 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 Cave Chantespan wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Cave Chantespan

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Cave Chantespan

How Cave Chantespan wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of meatloaf with lovage (perpetual celery), sophie's tuna cake or gratin of ratatouille with comté cheese.

The best vintages in the white wines of Cave Chantespan

  • 2011With an average score of 2.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Cave Chantespan.

  • Viognier
  • Roussanne
  • Chardonnay

Discovering the wine region of Rhône méridional

Côtes du Rhône is a regional appellation in the Rhône Valley in eastern France. It applies to red, rosé and white wines, and includes more than 170 villages. The area follows the course of the Rhône southward for 125 miles (200 km) from Saint-Cyr-sur-le-Rhône to Avignon. A small portion of the wines in the appellation are white wines.

However, the classic Côtes du Rhône wine is a blend of Fruity, medium-weight reds made from Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre. The Côtes du Rhône appellation was introduced in November 1937. Its purpose was to give a general title to good quality Rhone wines from the lesser known and less prestigious wine producing areas of the valley. Côtes du Rhône The landscape of the Côtes du Rhône.

The top red wines of Cave Chantespan

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Cave Chantespan

How Cave Chantespan wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef strogonoff, lamb curry with coconut milk or rabbit with marengo sauce.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Cave Chantespan

On the nose the red wine of Cave Chantespan. often reveals types of flavors of earth, microbio or red fruit.

The best vintages in the red wines of Cave Chantespan

  • 2014With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.10/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.00/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Cave Chantespan.

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Grenache
  • Mourvedre

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). 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 small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Cave Chantespan

Planning a wine route in the of Rhône méridional? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Cave Chantespan.

Discover the grape variety: Mourvèdre

Mourvèdre noir is a grape variety originating from Spain. 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 to large bunches, and grapes of medium size. Mourvèdre noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Rhône valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

News about Cave Chantespan and wines from the region

Greatest vineyards: Decanter names 12 ‘to rule them all’

Decanter has published a list of ‘12 vineyards to rule them all‘, featuring some of the greatest vineyards across the globe, after consulting a selection of leading wine world experts. After much debate and discussion, the final dozen takes wine lovers on a journey across the international wine world, from Burgundy and Barolo to Napa Valley, via South Australia and Argentina – to name just a few destinations. Not everyone will agree with the choices made, of course. It’s a list that ...

Walls: top northern Rhône reds under £30

In preparation for this column I tasted 46 reds in total, and – taking both quality and value into account – I can recommend 33 of them. Overall, the reds were less consistent than the whites, and although the lows were lower, the highs were higher. This tasting confirmed that it’s still possible to buy genuinely excellent northern Rhône reds for under £30 in the UK. That being said, it’s virtually impossible to find any Cornas, Côte-Rôtie or Hermitage for under £30 a bottle these days, but ther ...

Californian Pinot Noir pioneer Josh Jensen passes away

Josh Jensen was famed for producing elegant, silky Pinot Noirs at Calera Wine Company on the Central Coast.  Leading wine critic Robert Parker Jr once described Calera – the company that Jensen founded in 1971 – as ‘California’s Romanée-Conti.’ Jensen completed undergraduate studies at Yale, but his love of fine wine blossomed while completing an MA in social anthropology at Oxford University in the UK. He was a key member of the rowing crew at both universities, but he still found time to devel ...

The word of the wine: VDQS

Delimited wine of superior quality. A level of appellation (today, barely 1% of French production) which constitutes the ultimate step before the accession to the AOC.