The Château de la Violette of Savoie

Château de la Violette - Altesse
The winery offers 12 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 95 of the estates of Savoie.
It is located in Savoie

The Château de la Violette is one of the world's great estates. It offers 12 wines for sale in of Savoie to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château de la Violette wines

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

The top white wines of Château de la Violette

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Château de la Violette

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

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Château de la Violette

On the nose the white wine of Château de la Violette. often reveals types of flavors of earth, microbio or vegetal and sometimes also flavors of oak, tree fruit or citrus fruit.

The best vintages in the white wines of Château de la Violette

  • 2018With an average score of 3.86/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.85/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.62/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Château de la Violette.

  • Roussanne
  • Jacquère
  • Altesse

Discovering the wine region of Savoie

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.

The top sparkling wines of Château de la Violette

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Château de la Violette

How Château de la Violette wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, poultry or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of three ways to prepare chinese noodles, turkey stuffed with chestnuts or steamed carrots with saffron.

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Château de la Violette.

  • Jacquère

Discover the grape variety: Jacquère

Jacquère is the most widespread grape variety in Savoie. It has medium-sized bunches that are cylindrical-conical. They are compact and often winged. The berries are medium-sized and can be slightly elongated or spherical, with thick skins that turn from yellowish green to golden yellow to a slightly pinkish hue when fully ripe. The soft flesh of the fruit of this variety is tart but not very juicy. Jacquère has a budding process almost identical to that of Chasselas. With a semi-erect growth habit, this white variety is vigorous and fertile, and should be pruned short to be more productive. It thrives on clay-limestone soils as well as on stony scree. Grey rot and black rot are the main enemies of Jaquère. It can cope with oidium and mildew. This variety produces a light, pale, acidic and lively wine with a floral aroma. It should be consumed quickly.

The top red wines of Château de la Violette

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château de la Violette

How Château de la Violette wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef such as recipes of navarin of lamb.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château de la Violette

On the nose the red wine of Château de la Violette. often reveals types of flavors of spices, red fruit or black fruit.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château de la Violette

  • 2017With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.59/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.19/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.00/5
  • 2013With an average score of 2.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château de la Violette.

  • Mondeuse Noire
  • Gamay

The word of the wine: Merithalle

Botanical term for the interval between two nodes or between two leaf insertions on a branch (see internode).

The top pink wines of Château de la Violette

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Château de la Violette

How Château de la Violette wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or pork such as recipes of seven o'clock leg of lamb, calf sweetbread with mushrooms or spaghetti carbonara.

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

  • Pinot Noir
  • Gamay

Discover the grape variety: Mondeuse noire

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château de la Violette

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

Discover the grape variety: Altesse

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.

News about Château de la Violette and wines from the region

Buying wine en primeur: How to approach it

Colin Hay, a professor of political economy with a special interest in the Place de Bordeaux, considers the different ways of approaching en primeur purchasing, ahead of this year’s 2021 campaign. Buying en primeur wines is a rather strange and, arguably, arcane system of buying and selling in which the consumer purchases the wine typically in the early summer following the vintage even though it will not be bottled and delivered for a further 12-18 months. It is, in effect, a futures mark ...

Pomerol granted permission for ‘exceptional’ irrigation

‘Climatic conditions’ and the requests of a ‘certain number of winegrowers’ were cited as the reasons for Jean-Marie Garde, president of the Pomerol appellation, to ask regulatory body Institut National de l’Origine et de la Qualité (INAO) to temporarily reverse the long-standing ban on irrigation. The favourable news was shared via emails seen by Decanter, with an accompanying letter from the INAO dated July 20, 2022. The letter, translated from French, states that after ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘2021 has been the year of all the miseries’

How’s the weather been this year? Awful. ‘La nature m’écoeure’, one of my wine-growing friends posted on Facebook on 8 April, having been out to look at the frost-crippled shoots on his vines that morning: ‘Nature disgusts me’. It takes a lot to make a wine-grower feel that. He wasn’t alone. Jeremiads echo around the northern hemisphere as 2021 closes. It’s been the year of all the miseries. None suffered more horribly than the growers of Germany’s Ahr valley, where floodwaters caused by the fou ...

The word of the wine: Merithalle

Botanical term for the interval between two nodes or between two leaf insertions on a branch (see internode).