The Château Castera of Médoc of Bordeaux

Château Castera
The winery offers 10 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
This estate is part of the Château Castera.
It is ranked in the top 561 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Médoc in the region of Bordeaux
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The Château Castera is one of the best wineries to follow in Médoc.. It offers 10 wines for sale in of Médoc to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Castera wines

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

The top red wines of Château Castera

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Castera

How Château Castera wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of homemade beef stew, express couscous in a pressure cooker or civet of wild boar.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Castera

On the nose the red wine of Château Castera. often reveals types of flavors of earth, dark fruit or black currant and sometimes also flavors of chocolate, cassis or toasty. In the mouth the red wine of Château Castera. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Castera

  • 1996With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2001With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2000With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.82/5

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Petit Verdot
  • Malbec

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.

The top pink wines of Château Castera

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Château Castera

How Château Castera wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of beer goulash, lamb parmentine with eggplant and spices or the real vegetables stuffed in the provençal way.

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Château Castera.

  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot
  • Petit Verdot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon

Discover the grape variety: Petit Verdot

Petit Verdot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (southwest). 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 bunches and small grapes. Petit Verdot noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Armagnac.

The top white wines of Château Castera

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Château Castera

How Château Castera wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of old-fashioned pork roll, leek, goat cheese and bacon quiche or potjevleesch.

The best vintages in the white wines of Château Castera

  • 2021With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2020With an average score of 4.10/5

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

  • Sauvignon Blanc

The word of the wine: Stirring (champagne)

Manual operation (on a "desk") or mechanical (with a "gyropalette") which allows the deposit created by the yeasts (see tirage) to go down to the neck of the bottle for disgorging.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Castera

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

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 Castera and wines from the region

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Saint-Gengoux-Le-National

Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Saint-Gengoux-Le-National, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are available in French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitte ...

An overview of the Rully appellation

The Bourgogne Wine Board (BIVB) invites you to a survey above the vineyard of Rully. Situated at the end of the Côte de Beaune region, it marks the begining of the côte chalonnaise with such a diversity of landscapes. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneWines/​​​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinsdebourgogne/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bivb​​​​ Find out more on our website: https://www.bourgogne-wines ...

An overview of Saint-Véran appellation

Let’s have a look at Saint-Véran vineyard and discover the magnificent and very diverse landscapes of this appellation situated in the South of Bourgogne. Saint-Véran is one of the 5 Village appellations with Pouilly-Fuissé, Pouilly-Vinzelles, Pouilly-Loché and Viré-Clessé. Like them, it produces only white wines from the Chardonnay grape. What makes it special is that the vineyard is cut in two dinstinct parts by the vineyard of Pouilly-Fuissé. As anywhere else in the vineyard in Bourgogn ...

The word of the wine: Stirring (champagne)

Manual operation (on a "desk") or mechanical (with a "gyropalette") which allows the deposit created by the yeasts (see tirage) to go down to the neck of the bottle for disgorging.