Château de la MotteGraves Blanc
White wine
This wine generally goes well with pork, vegetarian or poultry.
Food and wine pairings with Graves Blanc
Pairings that work perfectly with Graves Blanc
Original food and wine pairings with Graves Blanc
The Graves Blanc of Château de la Motte matches generally quite well with dishes of pork, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of endives with ham (improved), ham and comté quiche or spanish omelette (tortilla auténtica).
Details and technical informations about Château de la Motte's Graves Blanc.
Discover the grape variety: Foch
Interspecific crossing between 101-14 Millardet and Grasset (vitis riparia X vitis rupestris) and the goldriesling obtained by Eugène Kühlmann around 1911. With these same parents, he obtained among others the Léon Millot. Maréchal Foch is still found in Canada (Quebec) where it is the first black grape variety, in the north-east of the United States, etc. In France, it is hardly present in the vineyard any more, although it is registered in the Official Catalogue of Vine Varieties list A.
Informations about the Château de la Motte
The Château de la Motte is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 2 wines for sale in the of Graves to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Graves
Graves is a wine region on the left bank of the Bordeaux region of France, characterized by the gravel soils that give it its name. Unique among the sub-regions of Bordeaux, Graves is equally respected for its red and white wines. The AOC Graves, which covers both red and white wines, is the catch-all appellation of the district. A typical Graves red is based on the classic Bordeaux grapes, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, with Cabernet Franc, Malbec and Petit Verdot sometimes in a supporting role.
The wine region of Bordeaux
Bordeaux, in southwestern France, is one of the most famous, prestigious and prolific wine regions in the world. The majority of Bordeaux wines (nearly 90% of the production Volume) are the Dry, medium and Full-bodied red Bordeaux blends for which it is famous. The finest (and most expensive) are the wines of the great châteaux of Haut-Médoc and the right bank appellations of Saint-Émilion and Pomerol. The former focuses (at the highest level) on Cabernet Sauvignon, the latter on Merlot.
The word of the wine: Chaptalization
The addition of sugar at the time of fermentation of the must, an ancient practice, but theorized by Jean-Antoine Chaptal at the dawn of the 19th century. The sugar is transformed into alcohol and allows the natural degree of the wine to be raised in a weak or cold year, or - more questionably - when the winegrower has a harvest that is too large to obtain good maturity.
