The Château du Thouar of Provence

Château du Thouar
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is ranked in the top 2885 of the estates of Provence.
It is located in Provence

The Château du Thouar is one of the best wineries to follow in Provence.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Provence to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château du Thouar wines

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

The top pink wines of Château du Thouar

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Château du Thouar

How Château du Thouar wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, shellfish or vegetarian such as recipes of melt-in-the-mouth pork tenderloin casserole, panga curry or summer tuna quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Château du Thouar

In the mouth the pink wine of Château du Thouar. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Château du Thouar

  • 2015With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.10/5

Discovering the wine region of Provence

Provence is a wine region in the far southeast of France, best known for the quality (and quantity) of its rosé wines and for its Warm, mild Climate. The modernization that is taking place in many of the traditional wine regions of southern France has not yet taken place to the same extent in Provence, but there are Clear signs of change. The region's Grape varieties, in particular, have come under scrutiny in recent decades. Traditional varieties such as Carignan, Barbaroux (Barbarossa from Sardinia) and Calitor are being replaced by more commercially viable varieties such as Grenache, Syrah and even Cabernet Sauvignon.

The term "Varietal improvers" is gaining ground in Provence, as it is in the neighbouring Languedoc-Roussillon. The most successful local varieties, Mourvèdre, Tibouren and Vermentino (known locally as Rolle), have remained in favor, proving their value in Provence wines, in red, rosé and white respectively. The Vineyards of Provence cover an area of France's southeastern coastline that measures about 200 kilometers from east to west. In this definitely Mediterranean climate - no Provencal vineyard is more than 55 km from the Mediterranean - the vines enjoy about 3,000 hours of sunshine a year, as well as an average annual temperature of 14.

5°C.

The top red wines of Château du Thouar

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château du Thouar

How Château du Thouar wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of spit-turned boar leg (oven) with "automatic watering"., lamb stew with melting peppers or thai green curry.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château du Thouar

  • 2012With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.30/5

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

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Grenache
  • Carignan

Discover the grape variety: Carignan

Mainly cultivated in the Languedoc region, carignan originates from Spain. Because of its very resistant branches, it is often called hardwood. Its bunches are quite large. They are compact and winged with a lignified stalk. The berries are spherical in shape and take on a bluish-black colour. Carignan has a total of 25 approved clones, the best known of which are 274, 65 and 9. The carignan buds at the beginning of June and is protected from spring frosts. It does not reach maturity until the third period. Also, this grape variety needs warmth and sunshine. It appreciates dry and not very fertile soils. Carignan vines can live for more than 100 years. Those that are more than 30 years old produce a better wine. This wine is well coloured. It is generous and powerful at the same time. Pepper, cherry, blackberry, banana, raspberry, almond, prune and violet are some of the aromas that this grape variety gives off.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château du Thouar

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

Discover the grape variety: Grenache

Grenache noir is a grape variety that originated in Spain. It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by medium to large bunches, and grapes of medium size. Grenache noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Languedoc & Roussillon, Rhone Valley, Loire Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

News about Château du Thouar and wines from the region

Andrew Jefford: ‘2021 has been the year of all the miseries’

How’s the weather been this year? Awful. ‘La nature m’écoeure’, one of my wine-growing friends posted on Facebook on 8 April, having been out to look at the frost-crippled shoots on his vines that morning: ‘Nature disgusts me’. It takes a lot to make a wine-grower feel that. He wasn’t alone. Jeremiads echo around the northern hemisphere as 2021 closes. It’s been the year of all the miseries. None suffered more horribly than the growers of Germany’s Ahr valley, where floodwaters caused by the fou ...

Decanter guide to picnicking for wine lovers

According to lifestyle and happiness guru Gretchen Rubin, you ‘bring your own weather to a picnic’. Ms Rubin, I’d suggest, has never shivered under a tree watching raindrops turn her fish-paste sandwich to mush because the weather forecast was wrong. There are, it’s safe to say, picnics and Picnics. It’s a term that takes in everything from a rubber baguette in a French ‘Aire’ off the Autoroute du Soleil to a four-course spread while listening to opera at Glyndebourne. What’s definitely true is ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘Rosé, for the time being, is a pretty babble’

Many wine styles can seem perplexing at first: imagine the first bottle of Barolo if you only know Barossa Shiraz, or the first bottle of Jura Savagnin if you were brought up on California Chardonnay. With time, thought and repeated tasting, though, comes understanding. You learn each wine’s syntax and lexicon, its hints and inferences. You grasp the ways in which each style communicates. Its beauty dawns, then grows. Rosé wine sales grew 23% worldwide between 2002 and 2019. Its fuel has come fr ...

The word of the wine: Double magnum (or Marie-Jeanne)

Bottle with a capacity of 3 litres.