The Château de Merande - Domaine Genoux is one of the world's great estates. It offers 25 wines for sale in of Savoie to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Château de Merande - Domaine Genoux wines in Savoie among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château de Merande - Domaine Genoux 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 Merande - Domaine Genoux wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Château de Merande - Domaine Genoux wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of gratin dauphinois with smoked salmon, pasta with shrimp or old-fashioned aligot.
On the nose the red wine of Château de Merande - Domaine Genoux. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, earthy or blackberry and sometimes also flavors of blueberry, leather or pepper.
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 Merande - Domaine Genoux wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of violet omelette, pan-fried salmon papillote or onion and comté pie.
On the nose the white wine of Château de Merande - Domaine Genoux. often reveals types of flavors of earth, tree fruit or oak and sometimes also flavors of pear.
Roussane is a white grape variety, planted on an area of more than 700 ha. Originally from Montélimar, it is also found in Savoie, Languedoc and Roussillon, and grows very well in calcareous, poor, stony soil. It prefers to be pruned short. Roussane is also called fromenteau, barbin or bergeron. The young leaves are bubbled with fine down. When adult, they become thicker. It flowers in June and matures in mid-September. The grapes are cylindrical in shape, the berries are small and turn red when ripe, and the wine produced from pure Roussane is of extraordinary quality. It has a delicate aroma reminiscent of coffee, honeysuckle, iris and peony. The taste of this wine improves with age. It is part of the blend of the appellations Vin-de-Savoie, Côtes-du-Vallée du Rhône or Châteauneuf-du-Pape.
How Château de Merande - Domaine Genoux wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .
Refers to a wine showing good ageing potential.
How Château de Merande - Domaine Genoux wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .
Haute-Savoie finds in Mondeuse blanche one of the oldest grape varieties planted in its vineyards. It can be found throughout Savoie and Ain, although its cultivation is not very well developed. Barely 5 hectares of vineyards are planted with this variety. It is known by other names such as savouette, dongine, couilleri or aigre blanc. Mondeuse blanche can be recognized by the downy appearance of its young shoots bearing very tan leaves, reminiscent of spider webs. The leaf blade tends to lose its tan appearance as it ages, while the 5 lobes are clearly defined. Mondeuse blanche produces bunches of grapes that give a wine with good acidity and a long shelf life, which can be kept for up to thirty years. They appear compact, cylindrical and winged. The juicy, sweet and crunchy berries ripen in the second late season. The golden yellow or green skin is quite strong, covering an ovoid or spherical fruit of medium size.
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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.
