The Château Garance Haut-Grenat of Médoc of Bordeaux

Château Garance Haut-Grenat - La Rivière de Garance Médoc
The winery offers 4 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 1420 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Médoc in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Garance Haut-Grenat is one of the best wineries to follow in Médoc.. It offers 4 wines for sale in of Médoc to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Garance Haut-Grenat wines

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

The top red wines of Château Garance Haut-Grenat

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Garance Haut-Grenat

How Château Garance Haut-Grenat wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of steak tartare, berber giblet frying pan or duck breast with apples.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Garance Haut-Grenat

On the nose the red wine of Château Garance Haut-Grenat. often reveals types of flavors of cassis, non oak or oak and sometimes also flavors of black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Château Garance Haut-Grenat. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Garance Haut-Grenat

  • 2009With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2006With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2008With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.48/5
  • 2000With an average score of 3.46/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Garance Haut-Grenat.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot
  • Petit Verdot

Discovering the wine region of Médoc

Bordeaux's Médoc is an area of coastal lagoons, sand dunes and pine forests located on the 45th parallel. It is also a global wine powerhouse, and home to four of the world's most prestigious wine villages: Pauillac, Margaux, Saint-Estèphe and Saint-Julien. The estates located in these villages produce some of the most expensive bottles in the world. The region has also provided all but one of the châteaux included in the official 1855 Bordeaux wine classification (Haut-Brion).

The Médoc vineyards cover about 16,000 hectares, including the various small appellations. Approximately 5500 hectares of vines are classified for the production of AOC/AOP Médoc wines. Wedged between the Atlantic coast and the wide Gironde estuary, the Médoc is in fact a peninsula. It stretches 80 kilometres (50 miles) to the northwest, from the city of Bordeaux to the Pointe de Grave.

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Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir 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. This variety of grape is characterized by small to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

News about Château Garance Haut-Grenat and wines from the region

Bordeaux 2021 En Primeur: first impressions

There’s no doubt that 2021 was a challenging vintage. Most explanatory statements or technical sheets handed out over the past few weeks have mentioned the unfavourable, oft disastrous weather conditions, the sometimes very low and disheartening yields and the slightly varied or unusual blends on offer in 2021. Difficulties faced by vignerons both inside and outside of the cellar have been explained in detail as has the raft of highly important decisions needed be made throughout the year, ...

Bordeaux ‘Act for Change’ symposium

The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C  in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...

Decanter magazine latest issue: July 2022

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The word of the wine: Hybrid

Term designating grape varieties obtained from two different vine species.