The Château de Fonscolombe of Provence

Château de Fonscolombe - Bouches du Rhone Rosé
The winery offers 9 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 1425 of the estates of Provence.
It is located in Provence

The Château de Fonscolombe is one of the best wineries to follow in Provence.. It offers 9 wines for sale in of Provence to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château de Fonscolombe wines

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

The top pink wines of Château de Fonscolombe

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Château de Fonscolombe

How Château de Fonscolombe wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of adapted vietnamese fondue, rack of lamb with antiboise sauce or pork roulades with cream and mushrooms.

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Château de Fonscolombe

In the mouth the pink wine of Château de Fonscolombe. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Château de Fonscolombe

  • 2018With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.00/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Château de Fonscolombe.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Grenache
  • Chardonnay
  • Merlot
  • Carignan
  • Shiraz/Syrah

Discovering the wine region of Provence

Provence is a wine region in the far southeast of France, best known for the quality (and quantity) of its rosé wines and for its Warm, mild Climate. The modernization that is taking place in many of the traditional wine regions of southern France has not yet taken place to the same extent in Provence, but there are Clear signs of change. The region's Grape varieties, in particular, have come under scrutiny in recent decades. Traditional varieties such as Carignan, Barbaroux (Barbarossa from Sardinia) and Calitor are being replaced by more commercially viable varieties such as Grenache, Syrah and even Cabernet Sauvignon.

The term "Varietal improvers" is gaining ground in Provence, as it is in the neighbouring Languedoc-Roussillon. The most successful local varieties, Mourvèdre, Tibouren and Vermentino (known locally as Rolle), have remained in favor, proving their value in Provence wines, in red, rosé and white respectively. The Vineyards of Provence cover an area of France's southeastern coastline that measures about 200 kilometers from east to west. In this definitely Mediterranean climate - no Provencal vineyard is more than 55 km from the Mediterranean - the vines enjoy about 3,000 hours of sunshine a year, as well as an average annual temperature of 14.

5°C.

The top red wines of Château de Fonscolombe

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

How Château de Fonscolombe wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The best vintages in the red wines of Château de Fonscolombe

  • 2018With an average score of 3.60/5

Discover the grape variety: Mourvèdre

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château de Fonscolombe

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

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 de Fonscolombe and wines from the region

A perfect pairing: Madhu’s masala lamb

With culinary inspiration dating back to 1935, our restaurant brand Madhu’s specialises in South Asian cuisine with an East African influence. It’s thanks to the secret recipes handed down across eight decades that we have become caterers for royalty, dignitaries and Asian weddings – and that our original Southall location has been named Best Indian Restaurant multiple times by Pat Chapman’s Cobra Good Curry Guide. Over the past few years I’ve been working on creative combinations to find the pe ...

Hugh Johnson: ‘I’ve formed a bond with Grillo and flirted with Verdicchio’

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 ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘A wine’s visual cues shout, stamp, whistle and roar’

Disconcerting: I couldn’t forget this bottle for days afterwards. Still can’t. Back in August, wine critic Lin Liu MW (together with her partner Philippe Lejeune of Château de Chambert in Cahors) came to dinner, en route to a short holiday in Provence. One of the bottles Lin brought for us to try together was the 2018 Les Rocheuses, Parcelles No 5 et 6, from Château Le Rey in Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux. It came in a slope-shouldered bottle, not a classic Bordeaux bottle. We tried it with some R ...

The word of the wine: Sparkling

Equivalent to effervescent, this term is used among others to designate the "natural sparkling wines" produced in the Montlouis appellation.