The Château de Barre of Bordeaux Supérieur of Bordeaux

Château de Barre
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.3.
This estate is part of the Pierre Jean Larraqué.
It is ranked in the top 377 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Bordeaux Supérieur in the region of Bordeaux

The Château de Barre is one of the best wineries to follow in Bordeaux Supérieur.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Bordeaux Supérieur to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château de Barre wines

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

The top red wines of Château de Barre

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château de Barre

How Château de Barre wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of roast beef casserole, stuffed quails or mixed paella valenciana.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château de Barre

In the mouth the red wine of Château de Barre. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château de Barre

  • 2012With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2010With an average score of 2.70/5

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

  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Malbec
  • Petit Verdot

Discovering the wine region of Bordeaux Supérieur

Bordeaux Supérieur is an appellation level applied to wines produced in the Generic area of the Bordeaux PDO. They are produced from the classic Bordeaux Grape varieties. The reds are, as the name suggests, intended to be a slightly "superior" form of the standard Bordeaux AOC wines. They are therefore heavily based on Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, with smaller amounts of Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot and Malbec.

Some wines may feature the "lost child" of Bordeaux, Carménère. Small quantities of white wine are produced. However, as the wines must be Sweet, this does not represent a level of quality as is the case for the red designation. These wines are generally made from Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon.

Some blends may include Muscadelle, Ugni Blanc and Merlot Blanc. Similarly, the Graves Supérieures appellation is specific to sweet white wines. Only two French wine regions have adopted the concept of having a "superior" level for their appellations. The other is Beaujolais.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château de Barre

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

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 de Barre and wines from the region

Brad Pitt launches skincare range using ingredients from Rhône Valley vineyard

Le Domaine Skincare features a serum, a cream, a fluid cream and a cleansing emulsion, all of which are vegan and suitable for all skin types. The products are made from organic matter that was previously discarded after the grapes had been pressed. Le Domaine Skincare’s packaging also includes recyclable glass bottles and jars, and reusable stoppers made of oak cut from the scraps of the vineyard’s wine barrels. ‘It is about imitating nature’s organic cycles, its original beauty,’ said Pitt, wh ...

Château Lassègue names seventh-generation vigneron Nicolas Seillan as its new winemaker

Seillan takes on his new role in addition to his current position as senior vice president of finance, Château Lassègue and Tenuta di Arceno. Château Lassègue said Seillan will continue to work alongside his father, renowned vigneron Pierre Seillan, who said: ‘I am proud that my son Nicolas will continue in the tradition of our family lineage as a seventh-generation vigneron, and bring his passion and respect for the great terroirs and wines of France.’ Born into a family of French vignerons, Ni ...

Buying wine en primeur: How to approach it

Colin Hay, a professor of political economy with a special interest in the Place de Bordeaux, considers the different ways of approaching en primeur purchasing, ahead of this year’s 2021 campaign. Buying en primeur wines is a rather strange and, arguably, arcane system of buying and selling in which the consumer purchases the wine typically in the early summer following the vintage even though it will not be bottled and delivered for a further 12-18 months. It is, in effect, a futures mark ...

The word of the wine: Sapid

Said of a wine rich in flavours.