The Château de la Ligne of Bordeaux Supérieur of Bordeaux
The Château de la Ligne is one of the world's great estates. It offers 1 wines for sale in of Bordeaux Supérieur to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Château de la Ligne wines in Bordeaux Supérieur among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château de la Ligne 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 la Ligne wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Château de la Ligne wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of tanjia, duck breast with orange sauce or rabbit in sauce.
On the nose the red wine of Château de la Ligne. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, oaky or smoke and sometimes also flavors of earthy, plum or leather. In the mouth the red wine of Château de la Ligne. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
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.
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 la Ligne.
Most certainly finding its first origins in southern Provence, registered in the Official Catalogue of table grape varieties list A1. According to genetic analyses published in Montpellier (Hérault), it is the result of a cross between the bicane and the pascal blanc. It should not be confused with the foster' white grown in Italy and wrongly called panse précoce. Finally, it can also be confused with the Panse de Provence, which has downy-pubescent leaves and ripens in the second half of the year.
Franciacorta has lost one of its fathers; Franco Ziliani died aged 90 this Christmas. He was the winemaker who, along with the Count Guido Berlucchi, changed the destiny of an entire region and helped make Franciacorta one of the most consistent areas in the world for sparkling wines made in the traditional method. Their fateful encounter was in 1958 at Palazzo Lana, in Franciacorta. Count Berlucchi began to question the young winemaker about how to improve his unstable white wine produced in Co ...
Writing in the Oeno One journal, researchers said climate data showed a significant increase in average growing season temperatures in both Napa and Bordeaux, particularly since the 1980s. So far the warmer conditions have generally contributed to better average wine quality, noted the authors, from the University of Bordeaux’s ISVV Institut des Sciences de la Vigne et du Vin and UC Davis. Yet, they questioned how long this would continue. The authors said: ‘In Napa and Bordeaux, viticulture has ...
The Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux (CIVB) revealed that the Bordeaux 2021 vintage was 20% below the region’s 10-year average. Bud burst came earlier than usual amid very sunny weather in March, and many young buds were then destroyed by severe frosts, which hammered the region in early April. It means that producers will have just 503 million bottles from the 2021 vintage, which is significantly below average. The region’s sweet whites, including Sauternes, suffered the sharpest y ...
A powerful red wine with a dense, rich body and a tight tannic structure.