Château de Saint MartinComtesse de Saint Martin Cuvée Vieilles Vignes Rouge
Red wine
This wine generally goes well with beef, lamb or mature and hard cheese.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Comtesse de Saint Martin Cuvée Vieilles Vignes Rouge of Château de Saint Martin in the region of Provence often reveals types of flavors of oaky, earth or oak.
Food and wine pairings with Comtesse de Saint Martin Cuvée Vieilles Vignes Rouge
Pairings that work perfectly with Comtesse de Saint Martin Cuvée Vieilles Vignes Rouge
Original food and wine pairings with Comtesse de Saint Martin Cuvée Vieilles Vignes Rouge
The Comtesse de Saint Martin Cuvée Vieilles Vignes Rouge of Château de Saint Martin matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of small stuffed fish from nice, marinated shoulder of lamb or rougail sausage.
Details and technical informations about Château de Saint Martin's Comtesse de Saint Martin Cuvée Vieilles Vignes Rouge.
Discover the grape variety: Mourvèdre
Powerful, deep reds with firm tannins and dense texture, showing aromas of blackberry, leather, garrigue, black pepper, liquorice and animal notes (game, forest floor) with age. Star of Bandol AOC as a single variety and pillar of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Gigondas and Costières blends. Also in GSM in Languedoc and Australia. A late-ripening variety of Spanish origin (Mataró/Monastrell).
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Comtesse de Saint Martin Cuvée Vieilles Vignes Rouge from Château de Saint Martin are 2016, 2015, 2012, 2014
Informations about the Château de Saint Martin
The Château de Saint Martin is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 39 wines for sale in the of Côtes de Provence to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Côtes de Provence
World reference for pale, elegant rosé: salmon to onion-skin hue, notes of strawberry, pink grapefruit, white peach and flowers, fresh, dry, mineral palate, taut finish. 90% of output, the Provençal signature. Grenache, Cinsault, Syrah and native Tibouren in the blend. A few fleshy Mediterranean reds (Mourvèdre, Syrah) and saline Vermentino whites.
The wine region of Provence
World capital of dry, refined rosé (~90% of production). Pale rose-petal colour, delicate nose of fresh red fruits (strawberry, raspberry, redcurrant), citrus (pink grapefruit), white flowers and a mineral touch, taut and thirst-quenching palate — the Mediterranean aperitif par excellence. Blends of Grenache, Cinsault, Syrah, Tibouren and Mourvèdre. Fleshy Bandol reds from Mourvèdre (leather, garrigue, age-worthy), straight Cassis whites.
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.
