The Château des Roches of South West

Château des Roches
The winery offers 6 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 2118 of the estates of South West.
It is located in South West

The Château des Roches is one of the best wineries to follow in Sud-Ouest.. It offers 6 wines for sale in of South West to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château des Roches wines

Looking for the best Château des Roches wines in South West among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château des Roches 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 Roches wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château des Roches

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château des Roches

How Château des Roches wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, spicy food or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of steak tartare, jambalaya (louisiana) or onion soup.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château des Roches

  • 2009With an average score of 3.77/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.58/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château des Roches.

  • Malbec

Discovering the wine region of South West

The South-West is a large territorial area of France, comprising the administrative regions of Aquitaine, Limousin and Midi-Pyrénées. However, as far as the French wine area is concerned, the South-West region is a little less clear-cut, as it excludes Bordeaux - a wine region so productive that it is de facto an area in its own right. The wines of the South West have a Long and eventful history. The local rivers play a key role, as they were the main trade routes to bring wines from traditional regions such as Cahors, Bergerac, Buzet and Gaillac to their markets.

The last Trading post before the wines left for the lucrative markets of Britain was the wine town and port of Bordeaux. Britain has been a historic trading partner for the region, which was nominally British for a period following the marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine to Henry II of Britain. However, Bordeaux businessmen saw the wines in transit as competition for their own local products and took strong measures to ensure their financial security. The result is the French wine map we know today, with Bordeaux being promoted and the other wine regions of the South West struggling to gain recognition for the diversity and Character of their wines.

This history also explains why the Bordeaux Grapes Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Sauvignon Blanc are now three of the best-known grape varieties in the world, while traditional South West grapes such as Fer Servadou, Len de l'El and Tannat are relatively unknown.

The top sweet wines of Château des Roches

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Château des Roches

How Château des Roches wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or sweet desserts such as recipes of cod brandade, wok of shrimps with vegetables or apple cake.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Château des Roches

  • 2016With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Château des Roches.

  • Sémillon

Discover the grape variety: Sémillon

Sémillon blanc is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. Note that this grape variety can also be used for the elaboration of eaux de vie. This variety of vine is characterized by large bunches of grapes, and grapes of large size. Sémillon Blanc can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Armagnac, Provence & Corsica, Loire Valley, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château des Roches

Planning a wine route in the of South West? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château des Roches.

Discover the grape variety: Malbec

Malbec, a high-yielding red grape variety, produces tannic and colourful wines. It is produced in different wine-growing regions and changes its name according to the grape variety. Called Auxerrois in Cahors, Malbec in Bordeaux, it is also known as Côt. 6,000 hectares of the Malbec grape are grown in France (in decline since the 1950s). Malbec is also very successful in Argentina. The country has become the world's leading producer of Malbec and offers wines with great potential.

News about Château des Roches and wines from the region

Laggan Bay whisky distillery to open on Islay

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Rethinking the wine bottle for the future

There’s been a focus on making wine production less energy intensive as well as environmentally friendly in order to address climate change. The efforts continue but, as is the case for electric cars where it’s the battery technology that needs innovating, it’s in wine bottles where we’re seeing rapid change. It comes in a two-pronged attack to reduce energy use in manufacturing and then an even bigger emphasis on reducing bottle weight for shipping to reduce fuel usage and thus CO2 production. ...

The word of the wine: Net

Said of a frank wine with well-defined characteristics.