The Château Ballue-Mondon of Bordeaux

Château Ballue-Mondon
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
This estate is part of the Domaines Fontana.
It is ranked in the top 4825 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Bordeaux

The Château Ballue-Mondon is one of the best wineries to follow in Bordeaux.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Bordeaux to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Ballue-Mondon wines

Looking for the best Château Ballue-Mondon wines in Bordeaux among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Ballue-Mondon 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 Château Ballue-Mondon wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château Ballue-Mondon

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Ballue-Mondon

How Château Ballue-Mondon wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of cicadas at the chib, flights in the wind à la provençale or rabbit sautéed hunter.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Ballue-Mondon

On the nose the red wine of Château Ballue-Mondon. often reveals types of flavors of vanilla, non oak or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Château Ballue-Mondon. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Ballue-Mondon

  • 2016With an average score of 3.71/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Ballue-Mondon.

  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon

Discovering the wine region of Bordeaux

Bordeaux, in southwestern France, is one of the most famous, prestigious and prolific wine regions in the world. The majority of Bordeaux wines (nearly 90% of the production Volume) are the Dry, medium and Full-bodied red Bordeaux blends for which it is famous. The finest (and most expensive) are the wines of the great châteaux of Haut-Médoc and the right bank appellations of Saint-Émilion and Pomerol. The former focuses (at the highest level) on Cabernet Sauvignon, the latter on Merlot.

The legendary reds are complemented by high-quality white wines made from Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc. These range from dry whites that challenge the best of Burgundy (Pessac-Léognan is particularly renowned) to the Sweet, botrytised nectars of Sauternes. Although Bordeaux is most famous for its wines produced in specific districts or communes, many of its wines fall under other, broader appellations. These include AOC Bordeaux, Bordeaux Supérieur and Crémant de Bordeaux.

The Bordeaux Red appellation represents more than a third of the total production. The official Bordeaux wine region extends 130 kilometres inland from the Atlantic coast. 111,000 hectares of vineyards were registered in 2018, a figure that has remained largely constant over the previous decade. However, the number of winegrowers has consolidated; in 2018 there were around 6,000, compared to 9,000 a decade earlier.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Ballue-Mondon

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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 Château Ballue-Mondon and wines from the region

Stephen Brook: ‘It is astonishing how rapidly changes can take place in the Bordeaux region’

My book The Complete Bordeaux, which has been revised every five years, is soon to be published in its fourth edition. This may seem like excessive haste, given the scope of the book, but it is astonishing how rapidly changes can take place in the region. Burgundy, in contrast, is relatively stable, since most properties are family-owned and tend to stay that way. But not so in Bordeaux, where there are ample opportunities for newcomers to acquire established properties, as they have been doing ...

Ten years on: Chinese wine’s breakthrough moment at DWWA

The prestige attached to winning at the Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA) means that being awarded a Bronze medal for some wineries will mean huge celebrations in China, Japan, India, or Thailand. Since the competition began in 2004, I have often reminded judges on my panel about this – whether they are journalists, sommeliers, educators, Masters of Wine or Master Sommeliers. Scroll down for new tasting notes and scores on Jia Bei Lan vintages: from the Chinese wine label that won big at DWWA 20 ...

Generation Z investors ‘turning to fine wine’

A survey of 2,000 investors in the UK found links between Generation Z, loosely covering those up to 25 years of age, and fine wine investment. While close to half of all survey respondents said they had invested in so-called alternative assets, such as fine wine, whisky, art or crypto, this proportion rose to 62% for the under-25s. Commissioned by merchant Bordeaux Index and conducted by market research agency 3Gem, the survey suggests younger investors ‘are turning to fine wine’ as ...

The word of the wine: Alcoholic fermentation

Transformation of sugars into alcohol under the effect of yeast. These yeasts exist in their natural state in the vineyards and in the cellars. Artificial seeding with selected yeasts is however very often practiced.