The Château Clamens is one of the world's great estates. It offers 17 wines for sale in of Fronton to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Château Clamens wines in Fronton among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Clamens 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 Clamens wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Château Clamens wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of thai beef curry, sausage and vegetable risotto with cookéo or mahi mahi curry with coconut milk.
On the nose the red wine of Château Clamens. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, oak. In the mouth the red wine of Château Clamens. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
The wine region of Fronton is located in the region of Haut-Pays of South West of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Château Bellevue La Forét or the Château Baudare produce mainly wines red, pink and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Fronton are Négrette, Cabernet franc and Cabernet-Sauvignon, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Fronton often reveals types of flavors of cherry, smoke or citrus and sometimes also flavors of peach, apricot or minerality.
In the mouth of Fronton is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 89 estates and châteaux in the of Fronton, producing 317 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Fronton go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal.
How Château Clamens wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of beef fillet in a crust, pan-fried lamb heart or croque-monsieur.
On the nose the pink wine of Château Clamens. often reveals types of flavors of earth, red fruit.
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.
How Château Clamens wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of pork colombo, risotto with fresh salmon and zucchini or zucchini and goat cheese quiche.
Champagne made from black grapes (pinot noir and/or meunier) only.
Planning a wine route in the of Fronton? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Clamens.
Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.
