The Château du Haut Caillou of Bordeaux

Château du Haut Caillou
Only one wine is currently referenced in this domain
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Bordeaux.
It is located in Bordeaux

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Top Château du Haut Caillou wines

Looking for the best Château du Haut Caillou wines in Bordeaux among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château du Haut Caillou 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 Haut Caillou wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château du Haut Caillou

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château du Haut Caillou

How Château du Haut Caillou wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of pork shoulder with mustard, marinated leg of lamb with herbs or my grandmother's rabbit stew.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château du Haut Caillou

In the mouth the red wine of Château du Haut Caillou. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château du Haut Caillou

  • 2016With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château du Haut Caillou.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Bordeaux

Bordeaux, in southwestern France, is one of the most famous, prestigious and prolific wine regions in the world. The majority of Bordeaux wines (nearly 90% of the production Volume) are the Dry, medium and Full-bodied red Bordeaux blends for which it is famous. The finest (and most expensive) are the wines of the great châteaux of Haut-Médoc and the right bank appellations of Saint-Émilion and Pomerol. The former focuses (at the highest level) on Cabernet Sauvignon, the latter on Merlot.

The legendary reds are complemented by high-quality white wines made from Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc. These range from dry whites that challenge the best of Burgundy (Pessac-Léognan is particularly renowned) to the Sweet, botrytised nectars of Sauternes. Although Bordeaux is most famous for its wines produced in specific districts or communes, many of its wines fall under other, broader appellations. These include AOC Bordeaux, Bordeaux Supérieur and Crémant de Bordeaux.

The Bordeaux Red appellation represents more than a third of the total production. The official Bordeaux wine region extends 130 kilometres inland from the Atlantic coast. 111,000 hectares of vineyards were registered in 2018, a figure that has remained largely constant over the previous decade. However, the number of winegrowers has consolidated; in 2018 there were around 6,000, compared to 9,000 a decade earlier.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château du Haut Caillou

Planning a wine route in the of Bordeaux? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château du Haut Caillou.

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

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.

News about Château du Haut Caillou and wines from the region

Bordeaux 2021 en primeur campaign delivered ‘predictable chaos’ and ‘pitiful revenues’

Anecdotal evidence suggests that sales decreased significantly compared to the previous year, with volume and value sales down by as much as 60% in a few cases. In some instances, sales of usually bankable wines crashed to almost zero, according to the merchants that Liv-Ex polled. ‘Yet again, many buyers and collectors have had to ask what purpose the time-consuming event serves when it delivers such pitiful revenue, and who precisely it is for when it offers little compelling value,’ said Liv- ...

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Bordeaux 2021 harvest was 20% below 10-year average following spring frosts

The Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux (CIVB) revealed that the Bordeaux 2021 vintage was 20% below the region’s 10-year average. Bud burst came earlier than usual amid very sunny weather in March, and many young buds were then destroyed by severe frosts, which hammered the region in early April. It means that producers will have just 503 million bottles from the 2021 vintage, which is significantly below average. The region’s sweet whites, including Sauternes, suffered the sharpest y ...

The word of the wine: Vinification

Method and set of techniques for making wine.