Winery Charles JoguetSilènes Chinon
Red wine
This wine generally goes well with pork, poultry or beef.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Silènes Chinon of Winery Charles Joguet in the region of Loire Valley often reveals types of flavors of cherry, smoke or earthy and sometimes also flavors of blueberry, red fruit or black cherries.
Food and wine pairings with Silènes Chinon
Pairings that work perfectly with Silènes Chinon
Original food and wine pairings with Silènes Chinon
The Silènes Chinon of Winery Charles Joguet matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of chickpeas spanish style, stuffed eggplant (with vegetables or mixed) or rabbit with basquaise sauce.
Details and technical informations about Winery Charles Joguet's Silènes Chinon.
Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc
Supple, fragrant reds with fine tannins and vibrant freshness, showing raspberry, violet, green pepper, pencil lead and gentle spice aromas. Star of the Loire as a single variety (Chinon, Bourgueil, Saumur-Champigny) and of the right bank of Bordeaux in blends (Cheval Blanc at 60%). Also in semi-dry Anjou rosés. A historic Bordeaux variety, parent of Cabernet-Sauvignon, Merlot and Carmenère.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Silènes Chinon from Winery Charles Joguet are 2016, 2009, 2014, 2017 and 2015.
Informations about the Winery Charles Joguet
The Winery Charles Joguet is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 15 wines for sale in the of Chinon to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Chinon
Northern limit of Cabernet Franc in France on the south bank of the Loire in Touraine: velvety, balanced reds with aromas of strawberry, raspberry, cherry, blackcurrant and sweet spices (vanilla, cinnamon), supple tannins and digestible freshness. Light, fruity wines from gravel soils, more structured and mineral tuffeau wines suited to ageing. Also lively rosés and rare Chenin whites. Touraine AOC west of Tours, one of France's northernmost red appellations, from everyday to age-worthy bottles.
The wine region of Loire Valley
Kingdom of lively, dry whites and fine sparklers. Mineral, taut Sauvignon Blanc (Sancerre, Pouilly-Fumé) with citrus and gunflint notes. Multiform Chenin Blanc (Vouvray, Savennières, Layon): straight dry, floral off-dry or noble sweet honey-quince. Saline, iodised Muscadet (Melon B.
The word of the wine: Tressallier
White grape variety from the Allier region, identical to the Sacy variety grown in Burgundy. Rarely vinified on its own, it is used in the blending of Saint-Pourçain white wines, associated with chardonnay, the main grape variety of the appellation. Syn.: sacy.
