The Château de Pierreux of Brouilly of Beaujolais

Château de Pierreux
The winery offers 5 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
This estate is part of the Boisset Collection.
It is ranked in the top 7 of the estates of Beaujolais.
It is located in Brouilly in the region of Beaujolais

The Château de Pierreux is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 5 wines for sale in of Brouilly to come and discover on site or to buy online.

The Château de Pierreux is a wine estate located in the Isère department, near Brouilly, a famous wine village situated in the heart of the Côte-d'Or vineyards. The region as a whole is known for its wine and for the fact that it produces the same type of wine as the white Burgundy from Chablis. Château de Pierreux is an exceptional estate. The property has a profound history dating back to the 18th century. It was founded by Gillette de Pierreux, a noble heiress who transformed what was then just a modest wine village into a large and beautiful estate. She restored the original house and created a vineyard to accommodate over 15 hectares of vineyards that mainly produce white Burgundy wines. The vineyard of Château de Pierreux is primarily planted with Chardonnay, but it also houses rarer grape varieties such as Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir, and Melon. Due to its mild climate and limestone soils, Château de Pierreux produces a dry, fruity and light white wine, with a beautiful acidity and subtle nuances of herbs, flowers, and spices. The wines from Château de Pierreux are praised by critics and wine connoisseurs from around the world and are among the greatest white Burgundy wines. The property is a true wine jewel and offers an exciting visit with tastings and trips to the wine shop. During your visit, you will learn everything there is to know about wine culture and can taste the best wines from the estate.

Top Château de Pierreux wines

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

The top red wines of Château de Pierreux

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château de Pierreux

How Château de Pierreux wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or poultry such as recipes of veal simmered with vegetables, flemish carbonnade or chicken tikka massala.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château de Pierreux

On the nose the red wine of Château de Pierreux. often reveals types of flavors of cream, non oak or white pepper and sometimes also flavors of red plum, red currant or tomatoes. In the mouth the red wine of Château de Pierreux. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château de Pierreux

  • 2022With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.81/5
  • 2020With an average score of 3.79/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.79/5
  • 2021With an average score of 3.72/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.71/5

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

  • Gamay

Discovering the wine region of Brouilly

Brouilly is an appellation for red wines produced from Vineyards in north-central Beaujolais. The lower slopes of Mont Brouilly and the surrounding countryside contain large plantings of the Gamay Grape. The wines produced here are relatively robust and Full-bodied, in contrast to the light, fresh wines of Beaujolais Nouveau. The wines are fruitier than many of the other Beaujolais crus, with plum and berry flavors overpowering the traditional Floral">floralCharacter of Gamay.

The appellation was officially delimited along with most other Beaujolais crus in the 1930s. While the appellation applies only to red wines, the white varieties Chardonnay, Aligoté and Melon de Bourgogne can account for 15% of the vineyard area. They are also authorised as a minor component of the blend in Brouilly wines. The Brouilly wine area covers six communes around Mont Brouilly, none of which bears the name Brouilly, which is unusual for a Beaujolais cru.

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

Discover the grape variety: Raboso Piave

A very old variety known and cultivated more precisely in the north-east of Italy in the Veneto region (provinces of Treviso, Padua, Venice, etc.), not to be confused with Raboso Veronese, which is the result of an intraspecific cross between Raboso Piave and Marzemina Bianca. Raboso Piave is practically unknown in other wine-producing countries.

News about Château de Pierreux and wines from the region

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The Saint-Véran appellation investigated through its geology and geography

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The word of the wine: Grand Cru

In Burgundy, the fourth and final level of classification (above the regional, communal and premier cru appellations), designating the wines produced on delimited plots of land (the climats) whose name alone constitutes the appellation. The climats classified as Grand Cru are 32 in the Côte d'Or plus one in Chablis which is divided into 7 distinct climats. Representing barely 1.5% of the production, the Grand Crus are the aristocracy of Burgundy wines.

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