The Château d'Avrille of Loire Valley

Château d'Avrille
The winery offers 28 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 863 of the estates of Loire Valley.
It is located in Loire Valley

The Château d'Avrille is one of the best wineries to follow in Vallée de la Loire.. It offers 28 wines for sale in of Loire Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château d'Avrille wines

Looking for the best Château d'Avrille wines in Loire Valley among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château d'Avrille 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 d'Avrille wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château d'Avrille

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château d'Avrille

How Château d'Avrille wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef stew express, croziflette or duck breast with orange sauce.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château d'Avrille

  • 2016With an average score of 3.44/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.41/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.27/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château d'Avrille.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Gamay

Discovering the wine region of Loire Valley

The Loire Valley is a key wine region in western France. It follows the course of the Loire River on its Long journey through the heart of France, from the inland hills of the Auvergne to the plains of the French Atlantic coast near Nantes (Muscadet country). Important in terms of quantity and quality, the region produces large quantities (about 4 million h/l each year) of everyday wines, as well as some of France's greatest wines. Diversity is another of the region's major assets; the styles of wine produced here range from the light, tangy Muscadet to the Sweet, honeyed Bonnezeaux, the Sparkling whites of Vouvray and the juicy, Tannic reds of Chinon and Saumur.

It's quite telling that this brief overview of the region's wines doesn't even mention the Loire Valley's two most famous wines - Sancerre and Pouilly-Fume. White wines are clearly the strong point of the Loire Valley and represent the vast majority of production. A significant proportion of these are produced under PGI appellations, most commonly the IGP Loire (formerly Vin de Pays du Jardin de la France), which covers the whole region. The main white Grape varieties used for the production of white wines in the Loire Valley are Sauvignon Blanc, Chenin Blanc, Melon de Bourgogne and, more popular than the traditional, Chardonnay.

The top white wines of Château d'Avrille

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Château d'Avrille

How Château d'Avrille wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, lean fish or fruity desserts such as recipes of yellow risotto with mussels, chicken chop suey or rice with milk.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Château d'Avrille

On the nose the white wine of Château d'Avrille. often reveals types of flavors of apples, honey or earth and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, pineapple or almonds.

The best vintages in the white wines of Château d'Avrille

  • 2016With an average score of 3.95/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 1989With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.85/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.82/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.79/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Château d'Avrille.

  • Chenin Blanc
  • Chardonnay
  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet blanc

Interspecific cross between Cabernet Sauvignon and a long-unknown grape variety - that would be Regent - obtained in 1991 by Valentin Blattner from Soyhières (Switzerland) and propagated by Volker Freytag (Germany). No resistance gene has been identified to either mildew or powdery mildew. Cabernet blanc can be found in Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, the Czech Republic, Italy, England, etc., but is still little known in France.

The top pink wines of Château d'Avrille

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Château d'Avrille

How Château d'Avrille wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of korean bibimbap, saddle of lamb stuffed with chicken breast and basil or pork roll with tomato sauce.

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Château d'Avrille

On the nose the pink wine of Château d'Avrille. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Château d'Avrille

  • 2018With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.04/5
  • 2016With an average score of 4.01/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.67/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Château d'Avrille.

  • Cabernet Franc
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Blanc
  • Gamay
  • Grolleau

The word of the wine: Barbarossa

A black wine and table grape variety grown in Corsica, which is used in the ajaccio appellation.

The top sweet wines of Château d'Avrille

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Château d'Avrille

How Château d'Avrille wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of wild boar stew in burgundy style, bitumen leg of lamb or beef tagine with vegetables.

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Château d'Avrille.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon blanc

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.

The top sparkling wines of Château d'Avrille

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Château d'Avrille

How Château d'Avrille wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, poultry or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of scallops with cream, old-fashioned chicken in a pot or pretzels (alsace).

Organoleptic analysis of sparkling wines of Château d'Avrille

On the nose the sparkling wine of Château d'Avrille. often reveals types of flavors of citrus, apples or earth and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit.

The best vintages in the sparkling wines of Château d'Avrille

  • 2012With an average score of 4.00/5

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Château d'Avrille.

  • Grolleau
  • Pinot Noir
  • Chenin Blanc
  • Chardonnay
  • Gamay

The word of the wine: Botrytis

Fungus that causes grape rot.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château d'Avrille

Planning a wine route in the of Loire Valley? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château d'Avrille.

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). 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. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.

News about Château d'Avrille and wines from the region

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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-Vinzelles, 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://twitter.com/BourgogneW ...

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The word of the wine: Barbarossa

A black wine and table grape variety grown in Corsica, which is used in the ajaccio appellation.