The Chateau Belbec of Crimea

Chateau Belbec
The winery offers 6 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.1.
It is ranked in the top 417 of the estates of Crimea.
It is located in Crimea

The Chateau Belbec is one of the best wineries to follow in Crimea.. It offers 6 wines for sale in of Crimea to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Chateau Belbec wines

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

The top red wines of Chateau Belbec

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Chateau Belbec

How Chateau Belbec wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of scottish haggis, tajine of beef balls and merguez or spanish paella.

The best vintages in the red wines of Chateau Belbec

  • 2018With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 1993With an average score of 3.10/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.05/5
  • 1962With an average score of 2.90/5
  • 1963With an average score of 2.74/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Chateau Belbec.

  • Bastardo Magarachsky
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Saperavi

Discovering the wine region of Crimea

Turkey, located on the Anatolian peninsula between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, produces more grapes than any other country in the world. However, only a very small proportion of these grapes are made into wine; as a predominantly Muslim nation, Turkey's per capita Alcohol consumption is very low. The lack of wine production in Turkey is highly ironic, as wine historians believe that viticulture and winemaking originated in this Part of the world. Archaeological projects in Turkey and neighboring countries in the Levant have uncovered evidence suggesting that primitive VineBreeding was part of life here more than 6,000 years ago, which explains the abundance of wine grapes (vinifera).

The most commonly used wine grapes in Turkey are those used as table grapes, the only use they could be put to during the seven centuries of Ottoman rule. Ampelographic research has suggested that Turkey is home to between 500 and 1000 distinct varieties of vinifera grapes. Although Turkey's wine history is one of the oldest in the world, the modern Turkish wine industry is very Young. Turkey only began producing wine again in 1925, as a symbol of the nation's modernization and westernization.

The founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, established the country's oldest winery. The largest winery in modern Turkey is owned by tobacco giant Tekel (whose name translates as "monopoly"), now a subsidiary of British American Tobacco. Turkey's transcontinental location, between the deserts of Arabia (its eastern neighbours are Syria, Iraq and Iran) and the seas of Eastern Europe (the Mediterranean, the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea), results in significant climatic variations within its borders. While the western coastal regions have a temperate Mediterranean Climate, with hot, Dry summers and milder, wetter winters, the northern regions (on the Black Sea) have significantly higher humidity in summer and colder winters.

The top white wines of Chateau Belbec

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Chateau Belbec

How Chateau Belbec wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of spicy food, sweet desserts or rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) such as recipes of chicken risotto with curry, cheese cake (white cheese cake) inratable or tuna flan with leek coulis.

The best vintages in the white wines of Chateau Belbec

  • 0With an average score of 3.55/5
  • 1963With an average score of 3.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Chateau Belbec.

  • Muscat Blanc
  • Muscat Ottonel
  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Chardonnay

Discover the grape variety: White muscat

White muscat is a white grape variety of Greek origin. Present in several Mediterranean vineyards, it has several synonyms such as muscat de Die, muscat blanc and frontignac. In France, it occupies a little less than 7,000 ha out of a total of 45,000 ha worldwide. Its young shoots are downy. Its youngest leaves are shiny, bronzed and scabrous. The berries and bunches of this variety are all medium-sized. The flesh of the berries is juicy, sweet and firm. Muscat à petits grains has a second ripening period and buds early in the year. It is moderately vigorous and must be pruned short. It likes poor, stony slopes. This variety is often exposed to spring frosts. It fears mildew, wasps, grape worms, court-noué, grey rot and powdery mildew. Muscat à petits grains is used to make rosé wines and dry white wines. Orange, brown sugar, barley sugar and raisins are the known aromas of these wines.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Chateau Belbec

Planning a wine route in the of Crimea? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Chateau Belbec.

Discover the grape variety: Saperavi

Originally from Georgia - Kakhetie region - where it has been cultivated for a long time. This variety is found in many countries such as Russia, Bulgaria, the Caucasus and Crimean republics, etc. Care should be taken not to confuse it with others, which are admittedly quite similar, but which bear the name Saperavi, generally followed by another name. In France, the "real Saperavi" is practically unknown, it is however registered since November 2012 in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties list A1.