The Cave Saint-Brice of Médoc of Bordeaux

Cave Saint-Brice
The winery offers 6 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 535 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Médoc in the region of Bordeaux

The Cave Saint-Brice is one of the best wineries to follow in Médoc.. It offers 6 wines for sale in of Médoc to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Cave Saint-Brice wines

Looking for the best Cave Saint-Brice wines in Médoc among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Cave Saint-Brice 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 Saint-Brice wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Cave Saint-Brice

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Cave Saint-Brice

How Cave Saint-Brice wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef tongue in hot pickle sauce, mouse of lamb with thyme or rabbit sautéed hunter.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Cave Saint-Brice

On the nose the red wine of Cave Saint-Brice. often reveals types of flavors of earthy, earth or oak. In the mouth the red wine of Cave Saint-Brice. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Cave Saint-Brice

  • 2015With an average score of 4.45/5
  • 2008With an average score of 3.86/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 1998With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.65/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Cave Saint-Brice.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Malbec
  • Petit Verdot

Discovering the wine region of Médoc

Bordeaux's Médoc is an area of coastal lagoons, sand dunes and pine forests located on the 45th parallel. It is also a global wine powerhouse, and home to four of the world's most prestigious wine villages: Pauillac, Margaux, Saint-Estèphe and Saint-Julien. The estates located in these villages produce some of the most expensive bottles in the world. The region has also provided all but one of the châteaux included in the official 1855 Bordeaux wine classification (Haut-Brion).

The Médoc vineyards cover about 16,000 hectares, including the various small appellations. Approximately 5500 hectares of vines are classified for the production of AOC/AOP Médoc wines. Wedged between the Atlantic coast and the wide Gironde estuary, the Médoc is in fact a peninsula. It stretches 80 kilometres (50 miles) to the northwest, from the city of Bordeaux to the Pointe de Grave.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Cave Saint-Brice

Planning a wine route in the of Médoc? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Cave Saint-Brice.

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.

News about Cave Saint-Brice 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 ...

Photo Highlights: Decanter Taste With The Experts featuring Médoc Grand Cru Classé 2017

Decanter hosted its first tasting for the monthly event series Taste with the Experts last month at its very own Tasting Suite in London’s Paddington. Host Andy Howard MW guided 12 guests through an exclusive blind tasting of the Médoc Grand Cru Classé 2017, often described as a ‘forgotten vintage’ but one that produced a wonderful array of wines that are already approachable and more than deserve their place on tables and in cellars. The event was a very special evening giving Decan ...

Join us for our first Decanter Taste With The Experts event

For the first time ever, Decanter is offering readers and wine lovers alike the chance to see behind the scenes of our renowned panel tastings and experience first hand what it means to taste like an expert. Decanter’s panel tastings are one of the most rigorous exercises in blind tasting, where a panel of three experts taste and score up to 100 wines a day, based on criteria set by the Decanter editorial team. We’re delighted to announced that this autumn will see the start of our n ...

The word of the wine: Blanc de blancs (champagne)

Champagne made only from the Chardonnay grape. The expression has been somewhat overused by the intensive use made of it by certain large distributors of white table wines (or sparkling wines) who were thus seeking to promote their product.