The Château Bustamante of Médoc of Bordeaux

Château Bustamante
Only one wine is currently referenced in this domain
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
This estate is part of the Maison Bouey.
It is ranked in the top 828 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Médoc in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Bustamante is one of the best wineries to follow in Médoc.. It offers 1 wines for sale in of Médoc to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Bustamante wines

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

The top red wines of Château Bustamante

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Bustamante

How Château Bustamante wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of spaghetti squash bolognese style, rack of lamb with antiboise sauce or veal blanquette à l'ancienne.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Bustamante

On the nose the red wine of Château Bustamante. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, oaky or pepper and sometimes also flavors of cedar, non oak or earth. In the mouth the red wine of Château Bustamante. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Bustamante

  • 2009With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.10/5
  • 2011With an average score of 2.90/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Bustamante.

  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon

Discovering the wine region of Médoc

Bordeaux's Médoc is an area of coastal lagoons, sand dunes and pine forests located on the 45th parallel. It is also a global wine powerhouse, and home to four of the world's most prestigious wine villages: Pauillac, Margaux, Saint-Estèphe and Saint-Julien. The estates located in these villages produce some of the most expensive bottles in the world. The region has also provided all but one of the châteaux included in the official 1855 Bordeaux wine classification (Haut-Brion).

The Médoc vineyards cover about 16,000 hectares, including the various small appellations. Approximately 5500 hectares of vines are classified for the production of AOC/AOP Médoc wines. Wedged between the Atlantic coast and the wide Gironde estuary, the Médoc is in fact a peninsula. It stretches 80 kilometres (50 miles) to the northwest, from the city of Bordeaux to the Pointe de Grave.

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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 Bustamante and wines from the region

Decanter magazine latest issue: July 2022

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Bordeaux ‘Act for Change’ symposium

The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C  in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...

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The word of the wine: Glycerol

Alcohol very present in wine (after ethyl alcohol) and which reinforces its unctuousness and fatty sensation.

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