The Winery Charles Delatour is one of the world's great estates. It offers 25 wines for sale in of Médoc to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Charles Delatour wines in Médoc among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Charles Delatour 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 Charles Delatour wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Charles Delatour wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of shepherd's pie (quebec!), roast pork with prunes or duck breast in foil (barbecue).
In the mouth the red wine of Winery Charles Delatour. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
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.
How Winery Charles Delatour wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of country-style snow peas, quiche without pastry or chicken chop suey.
Malbec, a high-yielding red grape variety, produces tannic and colourful wines. It is produced in different wine-growing regions and changes its name according to the grape variety. Called Auxerrois in Cahors, Malbec in Bordeaux, it is also known as Côt. 6,000 hectares of the Malbec grape are grown in France (in decline since the 1950s). Malbec is also very successful in Argentina. The country has become the world's leading producer of Malbec and offers wines with great potential.
How Winery Charles Delatour wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of farfalle with gorgonzola, quiche with leeks and fresh salmon from flo or smoked salmon and lemon cake.
Operation consisting in sanitizing a barrel by introducing a wick of ignited sulphur which produces a release of sulphurous gas.
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Pinot noir is an important red grape variety in Burgundy and Champagne, and its reputation is well known! Great wines such as the Domaine de la Romanée Conti elaborate their wines from this famous grape variety, and make it a great variety. When properly vinified, pinot noit produces red wines of great finesse, with a wide range of aromas depending on its advancement (fruit, undergrowth, leather). it is also the only red grape variety authorized in Alsace. Pinot Noir is not easily cultivated beyond our borders, although it has enjoyed some success in Oregon, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.
