The Château du Cray is one of the best wineries to follow in Côte Chalonnaise.. It offers 13 wines for sale in of Côte Chalonnaise to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Château du Cray wines in Côte Chalonnaise among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château du Cray 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 du Cray wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Château du Cray wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, pasta or rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) such as recipes of shrimp curry (reunionese recipe), pasta with puttanesca sauce or rice with tuna and tomato.
On the nose the white wine of Château du Cray. often reveals types of flavors of microbio, oak or citrus fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Château du Cray. is a powerful.
The Côte Chalonnaise is a wine-growing region in the department of Saône-et-Loire in Burgundy, eastern France. It is composed of five key communes, separated from each other by only a few kilometres. From North to South, they are: Bouzeron, Rully, Mercurey, Givry and Montagny. It takes its name from the commune of Chalon-sur-Saône.
The main Grape varieties of the Côte Chalonnaise are Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Gamay and various other red and white mutations of the Pinot family are planted in smaller quantities.
The Chalonnaise Lies between the Côte de Beaune to the north and the Mâconnais, just to the south. There is a Clear division between these two areas, clearly delineated by the border between the departments of Côte d'Or and Saône-et-Loire.
How Château du Cray wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or poultry such as recipes of cornish pasties, veal paupiettes with forestry sauce or quick coconut milk chicken.
On the nose the red wine of Château du Cray. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, red fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Château du Cray. is a with a nice freshness.
The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.
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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.
