The Château des Charmes is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 50 wines for sale in of Niagara-on-the-Lake to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Château des Charmes wines in Niagara-on-the-Lake among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château des Charmes 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 des Charmes wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Château des Charmes wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, shellfish or spicy food such as recipes of traditional flemish carbonades, crab matoutou or indian style coral lentils.
On the nose the sweet wine of Château des Charmes. often reveals types of flavors of banana, microbio or citrus fruit and sometimes also flavors of tropical fruit, cream or citrus.
Niagara-on-the-Lake is a regional VQA appellation in Ontario, Canada, on the southern shores of Lake Ontario and surrounded by water on three sides. It produces the largest Volume of ice wine in the world, more so than the style's homeland of Germany. Riesling, Cabernet Franc and Vidal are planted widely for this style.
There are around 20 wineries in operation here and international wine-producing powerhouses such as Inniskillin, Jackson Triggs and Peller Estate are collectively responsible for the majority of Canadian ice wines sold outside of Canada.
The consistent Climate is well suited to the production of ice wine. Its vineyards enjoy a growing season brought about by the temperature-moderating capacities of the lake.
Some Dry wines are also made in Niagara-on-the-Lake. These usually feature Chardonnay, Riesling and Cabernet Sauvignon.
In terms of Size, the appellation is a middle ground between the broader Niagara Peninsula VQA and four smaller sub-appellations within its borders. These are Niagara Lakeshore, Four Mile Creek, Niagara River and St David's Bench.
The western boundary runs along the Welland Canal, a shipping facility that is an important Part of the St Lawrence Seaway. The high ridge of the Niagara Escarpment forms an obvious southern boundary, and the Niagara River separates Niagara-on-the-Lake from the US state of New York in the east.
How Château des Charmes wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of beef stew with white wine, baekenofe (alsatian meat stew) or suckling pig leg in the oven.
On the nose the red wine of Château des Charmes. often reveals types of flavors of oaky, smoke or earthy and sometimes also flavors of blackberry, vanilla or black cherries. In the mouth the red wine of Château des Charmes. is a with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.
How Château des Charmes wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef mironton, sauté of pork with cider or duck breast with honey-orange sauce.
On the nose the sparkling wine of Château des Charmes. often reveals types of flavors of apples, butter or lemon and sometimes also flavors of microbio, oak or tree fruit.
A white grape variety cultivated since antiquity on the shores of the Mediterranean, it is considered the noblest of the muscats. It is mainly used to make sweet wines, often from mutage. In France, it is the sole variety used in many natural sweet wines: muscat-de-frontignan, muscat-de-mireval, muscat-de-lunel, muscat-de-saint-jean-de-minervois, muscat-de-beaumes-de-venise, muscat-du-cap-corse. Combined with Muscat d'Alexandrie, it gives Muscat-de-Rivesaltes. It is also used to make sparkling white wines (clairette-de-die; moscato d'asti and asti spumante in Italy) and dry wines (alsace-muscat). Powerfully aromatic and complex, its wines evoke fresh grapes, roses, exotic fruits, citrus fruits and spices.
How Château des Charmes wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food such as recipes of pork cheeks confit in cider, avocado and marinated tuna poke bowl or seafood pastilla.
On the nose the white wine of Château des Charmes. often reveals types of flavors of earth, microbio or vegetal and sometimes also flavors of oak, tree fruit or citrus fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Château des Charmes. is a powerful with a nice freshness.
Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.
How Château des Charmes wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of veal tagine with preserved lemons and saffron, meatloaf with lovage (perpetual celery) or cassoulet of the sea.
On the nose the pink wine of Château des Charmes. often reveals types of flavors of earth, microbio or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of spices, citrus fruit or red fruit.
A collective production structure to which winegrowers belong in order to pool their grapes, transform them into wine and ensure its marketing.
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Aligoté is an ancient Burgundian grape variety (it has different names depending on the region in which it is grown: griset blanc in Beaune, giboudot blanc in the Chalonnais or troyen blanc in the Aube), mainly used in the production of Bourgogne-Aligoté, Bouzeron and Crémant-de-Bourgogne.aligoté is a medium-fine white grape variety, quite productive, which gives clear, acidic, fresh and light white wines. An anecdote often says that it was a member of the clergy named Kir who gave it its letters of nobility by adding it to blackcurrant cream to prepare an aperitif.produced on more than 1,600 hectares in Burgundy, aligoté has also been exported. It is also cultivated in Eastern Europe (Ukraine, Romania), California, Canada and Chile, representing more than 20,000 hectares in the world.
