The Château Grand Caillou of Côtes de Bordeaux of Bordeaux

Château Grand Caillou - Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.3.
It is ranked in the top 1318 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Côtes de Bordeaux in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Grand Caillou is one of the best wineries to follow in Côtes de Bordeaux.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Côtes de Bordeaux to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Grand Caillou wines

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

The top red wines of Château Grand Caillou

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Grand Caillou

How Château Grand Caillou wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of veal shank with mushrooms, small stuffed provençal dishes or venison leg marinated in white wine and grand marnier.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Grand Caillou

  • 2007With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2005With an average score of 3.20/5

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Côtes de Bordeaux

The Côtes de Bordeaux appellation was created in 2009 to merge four existing appellations used in the Bordeaux region of France. These four appellations are The Premières Côtes de Blaye, Côtes de Castillon, Côtes de Francs and the red wines of the Cadillac region. The latter were previously under the appellation Premières Côtes de Bordeaux. The changes were a commercially motivated decision, intended to create unity between these important but lesser known appellations.

They were intended to simplify the Structure of the Côtes de Bordeaux appellation. However, the New banner of the four appellations is not entirely original or easily differentiated from the Old one. It can be said that it has added further complexity to the Bordeaux appellations. This is underlined by the fact that the four components of the appellations are geographically extensive.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Grand Caillou

Planning a wine route in the of Côtes de Bordeaux? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Grand 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 Grand Caillou and wines from the region

Best in Show: The top 50 wines of DWWA 2022

The 0.27% of entries awarded Best in Show at this year’s Decanter World Wine Awards reflect the inspiring world of wine and quest for quality among winemakers globally, with 50 wines expressing the best of their categories. An all-time record for wines tasted at the world’s largest wine competition, it’s quite possible that Decanter World Wine Awards 2022 marks the largest-ever wine competition to be held in history. And of the record-breaking 18,244 wines tasted, just 50 were ...

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 ...

Top DWWA award-winning wines on show at Decanter Fine Wine Encounter NYC

At the 2021 Decanter World Wine Awards, the world’s largest wine competition saw its biggest year to date, with 18,094 wines tasted from 56 countries. Over 15 consecutive days in June 2021, almost 170 expert wine judges, including 44 Masters of Wine and 11 Master Sommeliers, awarded 50 Best in Show, 179 Platinum, 635 Gold, 5,607 Silver and 8,332 Bronze medals. Join Decanter at our Fine Wine Encounter NYC this June, where you will have the opportunity to sample 23 of these top awarded Gold, Plati ...

The word of the wine: Maderised

Term used to designate oxidized wines in reference to Madeira wines.