The Château Bellevue of Cognac

Château Bellevue - Pineau des Charentes
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.1.
It is ranked in the top 18 of the estates of Cognac.
It is located in Cognac

The Château Bellevue is one of the world's great estates. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Cognac to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Bellevue wines

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

The top sweet wines of Château Bellevue

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Château Bellevue

How Château Bellevue wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, game (deer, venison) or rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) such as recipes of oven-baked sausage, rabbit with mustard in foil or sliced tuna with tomato sauce.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Château Bellevue

  • 2016With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.70/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Château Bellevue.

  • Roussanne
  • Marsanne
  • Grenache Blanc
  • Ugni blanc
  • Viognier
  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discovering the wine region of Cognac

Cognac is the most famous brandy in the world, more famous even than its OldGascon cousin, Armagnac. It comes from the Charentais, a vast region of western France immediately North of Bordeaux, and takes its name from the historic town of Cognac - the long-standing epicentre of local brandy production. In French, cognac is technically classified as an eau-de-vie de vin - a category that covers all spirits distilled from wine. The Full and official name of the brandy is actually "Eau-de-Vie de Cognac" or "Eau-de-Vie des Charentes", but the Short version has become so common that these longer versions almost never appear on labels.

Although little known, the Charentais is one of the largest vineyards in France. It is made up of two administrative departments (Charente and Charente-Maritime), each of which produces more wine per year than the whole of Burgundy. While some of this wine is basic table wine (sold as IGP / Vin de Pays or Vin de France), the vast majority is produced specifically for distillation into Cognac. Legally protected and regulated since May 1936, Cognac was among the very first AOC titles confirmed when the INAO was created in the mid 1930s.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Bellevue

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

Discover the grape variety: Ugni

Ugni blanc is a grape variety originating from Italy. It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by large bunches and small to medium sized grapes. Ugni blanc can be found in many vineyards: South West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Rhone valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Armagnac, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

News about Château Bellevue and wines from the region

Decanter magazine latest issue: July 2022

Inside the Decanter magazine July 2022 issue: FEATURES Fuller-bodied rosés: proud to be pink, Elizabeth Gabay MW Can rosé wines really age?, Elizabeth Gabay MW 10 reasons to drink English sparkling wine, Susy Atkins Decanter guide to picnicking for wine lovers, Chris Losh Piedmont Nebbiolo guide: the latest releases, Aldo Fiordelli Winemaker profile: Sam Kaplan, Jonathan Cristaldi in Napa Valley LEARNING Wine wisdom: Expert tips to help you on your journey through wine Read the new issue in full ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘2021 has been the year of all the miseries’

How’s the weather been this year? Awful. ‘La nature m’écoeure’, one of my wine-growing friends posted on Facebook on 8 April, having been out to look at the frost-crippled shoots on his vines that morning: ‘Nature disgusts me’. It takes a lot to make a wine-grower feel that. He wasn’t alone. Jeremiads echo around the northern hemisphere as 2021 closes. It’s been the year of all the miseries. None suffered more horribly than the growers of Germany’s Ahr valley, where floodwaters caused by the fou ...

The Last Drop Distillers unveils trio of new releases

The launch of the 2022 Collection takes the total number of Last Drop releases to 27 since the company was founded by drinks industry veterans Tom Jago and James Espey in 2008. Tom’s daughter Rebecca Jago is now the company’s MD. This year’s releases include The Last Drop’s first Japanese whisky: a blended malt that includes whisky from the fabled Hanyu distillery, taken from the beginning and end of its brief lifespan (1980-2000), as well as malts from other unidentified Japanese distilleries. ...

The word of the wine: Hautain (en)

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