The Château Coujan is one of the world's great estates. It offers 23 wines for sale in of Saint-Chinian to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Château Coujan wines in Saint-Chinian among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Coujan 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 Coujan wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Château Coujan wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal such as recipes of savoyard matafans, spaghetti with clams or potjevleesch.
On the nose the red wine of Château Coujan. often reveals types of flavors of oaky, earthy or cheese and sometimes also flavors of earth, microbio or oak. In the mouth the red wine of Château Coujan. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
Saint-Chinian is an appellation in the Languedoc-roussillon">Languedoc-Roussillon wine region of southern France. It is located between Minervois and Faugeres, which produce similar styles of robust red wine from similar grapes and in a similar landscape. It is also adjacent to the Muscat de Saint-Jean-de-Minervois appellation, which produces Sweet white wines. Therefore, the diversity of the Languedoc region is well demonstrated in this small area.
The AOC Saint-Chinian title was created in 1982, for red and rosé wines only. In 2005, white wines were introduced into the appellation, made from Grenache Blanc, Marsanne and Roussanne. Carbonically macerated Carignan used to characterize the production of Saint-Chinian, but it is gradually being replaced by more Complex wines produced from Syrah, Grenache and Lladoner Pelut. Similarly, the quantity of white wine is increasing.
How Château Coujan wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of eggplant lasagna, broccoli and blue cheese quiche without pastry or savoyard pizza (cream base).
On the nose the white wine of Château Coujan. often reveals types of flavors of earth. In the mouth the white wine of Château Coujan. is a with a nice freshness.
Petit Manseng is a white grape variety of Pyrenean origin. Its small berries have a hard, well-ventilated skin, which allows Petit Manseng to resist grey rot. On the other hand, this variety is very sensitive to noble rot, which concentrates the aromas and makes it possible to produce remarkable sweet wines with flavours of exotic fruits, grapefruit, honey, gingerbread, etc. Rich in alcohol and acidity, these wines are very well balanced and very fine. petit manseng also produces fruity dry white wines. It is also used in the AOC Béarn, Jurançon, Pacherenc-du-Vic-Bilh, Tursan...
How Château Coujan wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of quiche with tartiflette, vegan leek and tofu quiche or goat's cheese sandwich with honey.
On the nose the pink wine of Château Coujan. often reveals types of flavors of grapefruit, strawberries or earth and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit or watermelon. In the mouth the pink wine of Château Coujan. is a powerful with a nice freshness.
Removal of the right to the appellation of origin of a wine; it is then marketed as Vin de France.
Planning a wine route in the of Saint-Chinian? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Coujan.
Mourvèdre noir is a grape variety originating from Spain. 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 medium to large bunches, and grapes of medium size. Mourvèdre noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Rhône valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.
The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...
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I’d like to say we took advantage of the lockdown and its related commotion to do a stock-take, explore new avenues, turn over intriguing stones, widen and deepen our drinking, taking careful notes as we went. Sadly, no. I won’t say we got stuck in a rut, but we did tend to stick with comfort wines – and “comfort”, in our case, means familiar. Regular readers of this quarterly column can probably guess the labels on the resulting empties. We have a wider range of comfort foods, I’m afraid, than ...
Removal of the right to the appellation of origin of a wine; it is then marketed as Vin de France.
