The Château Chapelle Labory of Libournais of Bordeaux

Château Chapelle Labory
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.4.
It is ranked in the top 1865 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Libournais in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Chapelle Labory is one of the best wineries to follow in Libournais.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Libournais to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Chapelle Labory wines

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

The top red wines of Château Chapelle Labory

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Chapelle Labory

How Château Chapelle Labory wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of roast beef with caramelized onion, couscous without couscous maker or roast duck breast stuffed with foie gras confit.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Chapelle Labory

On the nose the red wine of Château Chapelle Labory. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Château Chapelle Labory. is a powerful.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Chapelle Labory

  • 2016With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2008With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2007With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.30/5

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Libournais

Rich in world-renowned wines, such as Saint-Emilion Grands Crus and Bordeaux/libournais/pomerol">Pomerol, the Libourne region Lies on the right bank of the Dordogne, on the edge of the Périgord. The region takes its name from the port city of Libourne, where many merchants from the Correze settled in the early 19th century. But its jewel is the small medieval city of Saint-Emilion, listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site and one of the most famous showcases of the Bordeaux wine region. The region is very homogeneous due to its hilly landscapes, its geology (predominantly limestone subsoil), the concentration of vineyards and the importance of family-run, small or medium-sized estates, which contrast with the large Medoc-type estates.

The Libournais is also Distinguished by its Grape variety dominated by Merlot, which gives Finesse, roundness and fruitiness to the red wines and allows them to age well, even if they generally Open up more quickly than those of appellations dominated by Cabernet Sauvignon. .

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Chapelle Labory

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

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 Chapelle Labory and wines from the region

Drought and heat drive early wine harvests in Europe

Severe drought and heatwaves have provided challenges for wine producers across Europe in 2022, from maintaining vine health to concerns about – and the impact of – wildfires. Early harvests have been a feature of the vintage and reports emerged this week of records being broken at some white wine-producing estates in Bordeaux. Spain’s Caserío de Dueñas estate in DO Rueda said it began a record early harvest on 16 August this year. While drought and heat have put pressure on yields in some regio ...

Soave producer Pieropan to unveil underground winery

Celebrated Soave producer Pieropan is due to unveil its new winery in April 2022. Dubbed ‘Leonildo Pieropan‘ after the estate’s pioneering late owner, the winery is considered groundbreaking for its eco credentials and use of materials – and is largely hidden under a hill, with just the frontage visible. Pieropan’s project began in 2015, when the family realised they had outgrown the existing winery in the centre of Soave town, and subsequently acquired a site in th ...

Best in Show: The top 50 wines of DWWA 2022

The 0.27% of entries awarded Best in Show at this year’s Decanter World Wine Awards reflect the inspiring world of wine and quest for quality among winemakers globally, with 50 wines expressing the best of their categories. An all-time record for wines tasted at the world’s largest wine competition, it’s quite possible that Decanter World Wine Awards 2022 marks the largest-ever wine competition to be held in history. And of the record-breaking 18,244 wines tasted, just 50 were ...

The word of the wine: Soft

Sweet wine containing between 30 and 50 grams of residual sugar. A sweet wine is made from very ripe grapes but without being affected by botrytis cinerea and without being raisined. This term can also be applied to a dry wine that is smooth and fat in the mouth.