The Château Barrière of Monbazillac of South West

Château Barrière - Monbazillac
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 13 of the estates of South West.
It is located in Monbazillac in the region of South West

The Château Barrière is one of the world's great estates. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Monbazillac to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Barrière wines

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

The top white wines of Château Barrière

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Château Barrière

How Château Barrière wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or sweet desserts such as recipes of mackerel with quick mustard, mussels with rosemary and barbecue or simple pancake batter.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Château Barrière

On the nose the white wine of Château Barrière. often reveals types of flavors of honey, earth.

The best vintages in the white wines of Château Barrière

  • 2016With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2011With an average score of 2.90/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Château Barrière.

  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Sémillon
  • Muscatel

Discovering the wine region of Monbazillac

The wine region of Monbazillac is located in the region of Guyenne of South West of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Tirecul la Gravière or the Grande Maison produce mainly wines sweet, white and red. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Monbazillac are Muscadelle, Pinot noir and Malbec, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Monbazillac often reveals types of flavors of honey, elderflower or cream and sometimes also flavors of tropical, pear or white peach.

We currently count 195 estates and châteaux in the of Monbazillac, producing 334 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Monbazillac go well with generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or sweet desserts.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Barrière

Planning a wine route in the of Monbazillac? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Barrière.

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon blanc

Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.

News about Château Barrière and wines from the region

Andrew Jefford: ‘Arresting and generous, but without vulgarity or excess’

Layers of colour in the sky before me: indigo, peach, salmon. In the rear-view mirror, the gold was catching fire. As I drove down through the lonely, Mistral-chilled vines of Babeau-Bouldoux towards nearby St-Chinian, I was thinking about what Christine Deleuze of Clos Bagatelle had just said. ‘When you came to visit 10 years ago,’ she reminded me, ‘you said we needed to wait another decade for a market breakthrough. Today you’ve said we need to wait another decade or two. So when, exactly, wil ...

A perfect pairing: Flatbread and cod roe emulsion

My father worked in the wholesale supply of fruit and vegetables. He would often come home with a box of the day’s best produce, and so I became interested in what was in season. Both my parents often worked late, so cooking dinner to help take some weight off them inspired me to want to learn more. My first kitchen job at age 14 was at a Greek restaurant in Southampton, and it inspired my love for foods of the eastern Mediterranean. Today, I’m lucky to be able to obtain the best produce from ‘O ...

LVMH buys Napa Valley’s Joseph Phelps Vineyards

Philippe Schaus, chairman and chief executive of the Moët Hennessy division of LVMH, called Joseph Phelps Vineyards ‘an iconic name and an iconic winery’. Joseph Phelps founded his eponymous winery on a 260ha former cattle ranch in Napa Valley in 1973. He turned it into one of California’s most prominent producers, famed for its flagship Insignia – a Bordeaux-style blend – and its pioneering use of Rhône varieties, which kick-started the ‘Rhône Rangers’ movement in the Golden State. The founder’ ...

The word of the wine: SGN

Selection of noble grains. Appellation reserved for a type of sweet wine produced in Alsace.