Château GréteauBordeaux Sec
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The Bordeaux Sec of the Château Gréteau is in the top 0 of wines of Bordeaux Sec.
Details and technical informations about Château Gréteau's Bordeaux Sec.
Discover the grape variety: Pirobella
Interspecific crossing, obtained in South Africa in the 1960s by E.P. Evans, between the 15 Pirovano (madeleine angevine X bellino) and the isabelle. It should be noted that from this cross was also born the black muska.
Informations about the Château Gréteau
The Château Gréteau is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 4 wines for sale in the of Bordeaux Sec to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Bordeaux Sec
All Dry white wines produced in Gironde can claim the regional appellation Bordeaux sec. The 1977 decree specifies that white wines with an Alcohol content of between 10 and 13° and a sugar content of less than 4g/l must be labelled as dry Bordeaux. The Bordeaux dry wine area covers 6,500 hectares and produces an average of 383,000 hl of wine per year. Its soils are clay-limestone, clay-siliceous, made up of gravel, sand and silt.
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: Liquid
Sweet wine containing more than 50 grams of residual sugar per liter. Sweet wines are made from grapes often affected by botrytis cinerea and concentrated either by passerillage (drying of the grapes on the vine stock), or after the harvest (straw wines), or by the cold (ice wines).
