The Château de la Mar is one of the world's great estates. It offers 8 wines for sale in of Savoie to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Château de la Mar wines in Savoie among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château de la Mar 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 Mar wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Château de la Mar wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .
On the nose the white wine of Château de la Mar. often reveals types of flavors of cream, honey or earth and sometimes also flavors of microbio, oak or tree fruit.
Savoie is a wine region in eastern France, in the mountainous areas just South of Lake Geneva and on the border with Switzerland. The location and geography of the region has very much defined its Character, which is fragmented, hilly and slightly Swiss. This is evident in the fresh, crisp white wines produced here, as well as in the labels of the region's wines. Many bear a white cross on a red background - the flag of Switzerland and Savoy.
About three quarters of the region's wines are white. This is mainly because most of the red Grapes would have difficulty maturing properly in the cooler Climate of Savoy. Jacquère is the most widely planted white grape, due to its high yield. Altesse, traditionally known here as Roussette, is used to produce some of the finest wines in Savoie, including its own appellations of Roussette de Savoie and Roussette de Bugey.
How Château de la Mar wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or lamb such as recipes of delicious bourguignon, chinese soy and chicken noodles (wok style) or lamb in spicy sauce.
In the mouth the red wine of Château de la Mar. is a powerful with a lot of tannins present in the mouth.
Cultivated for a very long time in Savoie, it is not the black form of mondeuse blanche and Mondeuse grise is a natural mutation of mondeuse noire. According to Thierry Lacombe (I.N.R.A./Montpellier), the latter is the result of a natural intraspecific crossing between the black tressot and the white mondeuse. Mondeuse grise and Mondeuse noire are both registered in the official catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A1.
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The Altesse white grape variety is French in origin, but its ancestors were brought from Cyprus. It then developed in the vineyards of the southeast of the country. The Montagnieu fusette or arbane, as it is also called, buds early in the year. A cottony veil covers the first buds. The involuted blade and the U-shaped petiolar sinus distinguish the adult, three-lobed leaves. During, sometimes for late vengeance, the clusters of medium or small size are winged, compact and cylindrical.the fruits reveal a melting pulp under a film of variable color. The pink-tan colour replaces the early reddish yellow when the berries ripen. If they persist, the berries take on a lilac hue. The vinification promises sparkling, aromatic and elegant sweet whites, or dry whites. Altesse is a grape variety to be carefully maintained against acariosis and erinosis.
