The Château de la Roche Bousseau is one of the best wineries to follow in Vallée de la Loire.. It offers 5 wines for sale in of Loire Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.
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How Château de la Roche Bousseau wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of light tuna-tomato quiche (without cream), vegan leek and tofu quiche or chicken liver cake.
On the nose the white wine of Château de la Roche Bousseau. often reveals types of flavors of tropical, melon or earth and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit or tropical fruit.
Kingdom of lively, dry whites and fine sparklers. Mineral, taut Sauvignon Blanc (Sancerre, Pouilly-Fumé) with citrus and gunflint notes. Multiform Chenin Blanc (Vouvray, Savennières, Layon): straight dry, floral off-dry or noble sweet honey-quince. Saline, iodised Muscadet (Melon B.
). Fine, crunchy Cabernet Franc reds (Chinon, Bourgueil) on raspberry and ripe pepper. Elegant Crémants. ~70,000 ha, oceanic climate over 800 km.
Wines for fine dining.
How Château de la Roche Bousseau wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of lamb, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of lamb tagine with olives and honey, quiche without pastry, courgette and blue cheese or italian gnocchi.
Whites with many faces: mineral and taut at Chablis (lemon, green apple, flint), opulent and buttery at Meursault and Puligny-Montrachet (hazelnut, brioche, yellow fruits), tense and chalky in Champagne (Blanc de Blancs). Also vinified sparkling and widely exported (Sonoma, Margaret River, Casablanca). A Burgundian variety, a cross of Pinot Noir × Gouais Blanc, half-sibling of Aligoté.
How Château de la Roche Bousseau wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of melt-in-the-mouth pork tenderloin casserole, savoyard pizza (cream base) or wild boar stew provencal style.
American vine on which a French vine is grafted. This is the consequence of the phylloxera that destroyed the vineyard at the end of the 19th century: after much trial and error, it was discovered that the "pest" spared the roots of the American vines, and the technique became widespread.
How Château de la Roche Bousseau wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of quick brioche sausage, barbecued mackerel papillotes or fondue with lao sukiyaki sauce (laos).
Vibrant and fruity rosés with a pale salmon colour, a tender palate and fresh acidity, on aromas of strawberry, raspberry, redcurrant, candy and spring flowers. Light and thirst-quenching finish. Star of Rosé d'Anjou AOC (a pleasing off-dry rosé) and backbone of Loire and Touraine rosés. Occasionally vinified as light reds and sparkling rosés. Native Loire grape from Anjou and Touraine, once the most widely planted variety in Anjou before Cabernet Franc.
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Chameleon whites with taut acidity, ranging from mineral dry (Savennières, Vouvray sec) to off-dry and medium-sweet (Vouvray, Montlouis), sumptuous botrytised sweet (Quarts-de-Chaume, Bonnezeaux, Coteaux du Layon) and brilliant sparkling (Crémant de Loire, Vouvray brut). Aromas of quince, apple, honey, white flowers, beeswax and flint. An Anjou variety, also star of South Africa's Western Cape.
