The Château de Bel-Air of Moulin-à-Vent of Beaujolais

Château de Bel-Air
The winery offers 19 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is ranked in the top 32 of the estates of Beaujolais.
It is located in Moulin-à-Vent in the region of Beaujolais
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The Château de Bel-Air is one of the world's great estates. It offers 19 wines for sale in of Moulin-à-Vent to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château de Bel-Air wines

Looking for the best Château de Bel-Air wines in Moulin-à-Vent among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château de Bel-Air 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 Bel-Air wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château de Bel-Air

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château de Bel-Air

How Château de Bel-Air wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of spinach, smoked salmon and ricotta lasagne, vitello alla genovese (roast veal with sponge cake) or old-fashioned pork roll.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château de Bel-Air

On the nose the red wine of Château de Bel-Air. often reveals types of flavors of oak, tree fruit or red fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Château de Bel-Air. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château de Bel-Air

  • 2016With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.30/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château de Bel-Air.

  • Gamay
  • Pinot Noir

Discovering the wine region of Moulin-à-Vent

Moulin-a-Vent is arguably the most remarkable of the ten Beaujolais crus, located in the far North of the Beaujolais region. Moulin-a-Vent wines, made from the Gamay Grape, are known to be among the most concentrated and Tannic of the Beaujolais, a far cry from the light and simple wines of Beaujolais Nouveau. Floral">floral and Fruity in their youth, these wines often develop Spicy and earthy characteristics as they age. The Moulin-a-Vent Vineyards stretch across the Rhône and Saône et Loire departments, on the west bank of the Saône.

The appellation borders Fleurie to the South, and the Chenas vineyard Lies directly to the north. In fact, the official boundaries of Moulin-a-Vent cover the land of the administrative commune of Chenas, and the vineyards surrounding the town of Chenas itself fall under the Moulin-a-Vent appellation. The most striking feature of the terroir is the pink granite soil with veins of manganese running through it. This mineral - not found in any other Beaujolais crus - is toxic to the vines and retards the growth of the leafy vegetation and grape bunches.

The top white wines of Château de Bel-Air

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Château de Bel-Air

How Château de Bel-Air wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork or shellfish such as recipes of rabbit with prunes or fish shells.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Château de Bel-Air.

  • Marsanne
  • Roussanne

Discover the grape variety: Marsanne

Marsanne is a white grape variety that originated in Montélimar in the Drôme, several centuries ago. Marsanne is also found in Cassis, Savoie, Languedoc-Roussillon and Saint-Péray in the Ardèche, where it produces remarkable sparkling wines. The warm, sunny climate of the Rhone Valley, Languedoc-Roussillon and Provence, as well as the dry, stony soil, are ideal conditions for its development. Its bunches are quite large and provide small, juicy berries that are sensitive to grey rot and strong winds. These two grape varieties complement each other perfectly: together they give light wines with little acidity, aromas of yellow fruit, white fruit and flowers with notes of honey and liquorice. This is for example what the appellations Saint-Péray, Hermitage, Crozes-Hermitage, Saint-Joseph, Côtes-du-Vallée du Rhône, Corbières, or Cassis express... which represent about 700 hectares.

The top pink wines of Château de Bel-Air

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Château de Bel-Air

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The word of the wine: Amber

(1) A colour close to amber, sometimes taken on by white wines aged for a long time, or by oxidising prematurely. (2) A term used on the label to designate white Rivesaltes aged for at least thirty months in an oxidizing environment.

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Discover the grape variety: Roussanne

Roussane is a white grape variety, planted on an area of more than 700 ha. Originally from Montélimar, it is also found in Savoie, Languedoc and Roussillon, and grows very well in calcareous, poor, stony soil. It prefers to be pruned short. Roussane is also called fromenteau, barbin or bergeron. The young leaves are bubbled with fine down. When adult, they become thicker. It flowers in June and matures in mid-September. The grapes are cylindrical in shape, the berries are small and turn red when ripe, and the wine produced from pure Roussane is of extraordinary quality. It has a delicate aroma reminiscent of coffee, honeysuckle, iris and peony. The taste of this wine improves with age. It is part of the blend of the appellations Vin-de-Savoie, Côtes-du-Vallée du Rhône or Châteauneuf-du-Pape.

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