Château FontanCadillac Liquoreux
Sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with poultry, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish.
Food and wine pairings with Cadillac Liquoreux
Pairings that work perfectly with Cadillac Liquoreux
Original food and wine pairings with Cadillac Liquoreux
The Cadillac Liquoreux of Château Fontan matches generally quite well with dishes of fruity desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of rice with milk or green salad with nuts, figs and roquefort cheese.
Details and technical informations about Château Fontan's Cadillac Liquoreux.
Discover the grape variety: Crescent
A direct-producer hybrid of American origin resulting from an interspecific cross between Saint Pepin and Elmer Swenson 6-8-25 (vitis riparia X Hamburg muscatel) obtained in 1988 by Peter Hemstad and James Luby at the University of Minnesota Research Center (United States). It can also be found in Canada, Ukraine, Russia, etc. and is virtually unknown in France.
Informations about the Château Fontan
The Château Fontan is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 6 wines for sale in the of Cadillac to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Cadillac
The wine region of Cadillac is located in the region of Entre-deux-Mers of Bordeaux of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Vignobles Bernard Reglat or the Château Fayau produce mainly wines sweet, white and red. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Cadillac are Cabernet-Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet franc, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Cadillac often reveals types of flavors of oak, tropical or ginger and sometimes also flavors of pineapple, spices or orange.
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 word of the wine: Grand Cru
In Burgundy, the fourth and final level of classification (above the regional, communal and premier cru appellations), designating the wines produced on delimited plots of land (the climats) whose name alone constitutes the appellation. The climats classified as Grand Cru are 32 in the Côte d'Or plus one in Chablis which is divided into 7 distinct climats. Representing barely 1.5% of the production, the Grand Crus are the aristocracy of Burgundy wines.
