The Château Caillavel is one of the world's great estates. It offers 10 wines for sale in of Guyenne to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Château Caillavel wines in Guyenne among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Caillavel 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 Caillavel wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Château Caillavel wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of linguine with squid ink and cockles, mushroom, bacon and gruyere quiche or homemade meat/goat ravioli.
Atlantic IGP of the Southwest across 5 departments (Gironde, Dordogne, Lot-et-Garonne, Landes, Pyrénées-Atlantiques). Bordeaux varieties as signatures. Merlot in red: supple and accessible with signature notes of plum, ripe cherry, light cocoa and a herbaceous touch, round tannins and fruity palate — affordable alternative to Bordeaux AOCs. Peppery Cabernet Franc, firm Cabernet Sauvignon, dense Côt.
Whites lively Sauvignon, ample Sémillon, straight Ugni Blanc.
How Château Caillavel wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of baked marrow bones, leg of lamb in butterfly (barbecue) or pork colombo.
Round and fleshy reds with a velvety texture, showing aromas of ripe plum, black cherry, cocoa and truffle notes with age. Supple tannins, generous alcohol, indulgent finish. Pillar of Libournais (Pomerol with Pétrus, Saint-Émilion with Cheval Blanc and Ausone) and signature of Super Tuscans, Italian Wales and Washington State. A cross of Cabernet Franc × Magdeleine Noire, France's most planted red variety.
How Château Caillavel wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of roast beef in a crust, mouse of lamb with honey and thyme or tripe in the style of caen.
A thin wine, lacking flesh and body.
How Château Caillavel wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or sweet desserts such as recipes of coulibiac of salmon, baeckeoffe with fish or tarte tatin.
On the nose the sweet wine of Château Caillavel. often reveals types of flavors of honey, earth.
Supple, fragrant reds with fine tannins and vibrant freshness, showing raspberry, violet, green pepper, pencil lead and gentle spice aromas. Star of the Loire as a single variety (Chinon, Bourgueil, Saumur-Champigny) and of the right bank of Bordeaux in blends (Cheval Blanc at 60%). Also in semi-dry Anjou rosés. A historic Bordeaux variety, parent of Cabernet-Sauvignon, Merlot and Carmenère.
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Very expressive, lively aromatic whites with a pale golden colour, crisp palate with fresh acidity, signature aromas of citrus (grapefruit, lime), exotic fruits (passion fruit), boxwood, blackcurrant bud and mineral notes (flint). Star of Sancerre AOC, Pouilly-Fumé AOC and Pessac-Léognan AOC, defines the great whites of the Loire and Bordeaux. French white variety from Bordeaux and the Loire, exported to New Zealand, South Africa and Chile.
