The Château Chauvelet of Bordeaux

Château Chauvelet - Entre-deux-Mers
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.4.
It is ranked in the top 6380 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Bordeaux

The Château Chauvelet is one of the best wineries to follow in Bordeaux.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Bordeaux to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Chauvelet wines

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

The top white wines of Château Chauvelet

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Château Chauvelet

How Château Chauvelet wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

Discovering the wine region of Bordeaux

Bordeaux, in southwestern France, is one of the most famous, prestigious and prolific wine regions in the world. The majority of Bordeaux wines (nearly 90% of the production Volume) are the Dry, medium and Full-bodied red Bordeaux blends for which it is famous. The finest (and most expensive) are the wines of the great châteaux of Haut-Médoc and the right bank appellations of Saint-Émilion and Pomerol. The former focuses (at the highest level) on Cabernet Sauvignon, the latter on Merlot.

The legendary reds are complemented by high-quality white wines made from Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc. These range from dry whites that challenge the best of Burgundy (Pessac-Léognan is particularly renowned) to the Sweet, botrytised nectars of Sauternes. Although Bordeaux is most famous for its wines produced in specific districts or communes, many of its wines fall under other, broader appellations. These include AOC Bordeaux, Bordeaux Supérieur and Crémant de Bordeaux.

The Bordeaux Red appellation represents more than a third of the total production. The official Bordeaux wine region extends 130 kilometres inland from the Atlantic coast. 111,000 hectares of vineyards were registered in 2018, a figure that has remained largely constant over the previous decade. However, the number of winegrowers has consolidated; in 2018 there were around 6,000, compared to 9,000 a decade earlier.

The top red wines of Château Chauvelet

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Chauvelet

How Château Chauvelet wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of monkfish (anglerfish) à la sétoise, duck breast with pepper sauce or duck parmentier with ceps.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Chauvelet

On the nose the red wine of Château Chauvelet. often reveals types of flavors of oaky, blueberry or vanilla and sometimes also flavors of black fruits, dark fruit or non oak. In the mouth the red wine of Château Chauvelet. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Chauvelet

  • 2016With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.20/5

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

  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Chauvelet

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

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.

News about Château Chauvelet and wines from the region

Distilled: Biodynamic whisky takes centre stage

First past the post in a race for the world’s first biodynamic whisky release was Waterford Distillery’s Luna 1.1, made with biodynamic barley from three Irish farms. Matured in used and new American oak, French oak and vin doux naturel casks, the single malt joins Waterford’s Arcadian Series heritage range. Released towards the end of 2021 and priced at £89.95 per 70cl at Master of Malt and The Whisky Exchange, Waterford Luna 1.1 (Alc 50%) is fruity with mellow cereal and rye notes. The smooth ...

How the fine wine market looks heading into autumn 2022

The fine wine market goes into autumn 2022 after a particularly strong period of gains, although there has been greater uncertainty about momentum in recent weeks. At Liv-ex, a global marketplace for the trade, the Liv-ex 100 index dipped 0.3% in July 2022 but had risen every month for two years prior to that. UK-based merchant Bordeaux Index recently reported prices on the market up by 10% in the first half of 2022, with Burgundy up 26% on average. Strong activity on the LiveTrade online tradin ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘Telling stories about terroir will lead us astray’

A domaine’s long history hoists its inanimate wines into life; biography brings meaning to the simple sensual pleasure of tasting a grower’s efforts. It’s important, though, to know what we are doing when we tell stories. And to know what to tell them about. Winemakers take the messy chaos of natural processes and add discipline, giving shape and direction to produce a stable and enticing wine. This was never nature’s intent. The storyteller takes a messy chaos of random events, either imagined ...

The word of the wine: Final

A more or less lasting impression that is felt in the mouth once the wine has been swallowed (or spat out in the case of a professional tasting). The finish can be short or persistent.