The Château Guiraud is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 13 wines for sale in of Sauternes to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Château Guiraud wines in Sauternes among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Guiraud 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 Guiraud wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Château Guiraud wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of couscous without couscous maker, veal blanquette à l'ancienne or duck legs with confit potatoes.
In the mouth the red wine of Château Guiraud. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
Sauternes, 65 km South of Bordeaux, is a Village renowned for its high quality Sweet wines. Although some wineries produce Dry wines, they sell them under other appellations than Sauternes, which is specific to sweet wines. The village is surrounded on all sides by vineyards, the best of which produce some of the most prestigious, long-lasting and expensive dessert wines in the world. A half bottle of premium, aged Sauternes from a good Vintage can sell for over $1,000.
Classic Sauternes has a DeepGoldenColor (darker than most other dessert wines), which turns a deep amber color with bottle age. Its aromas include flower and stone fruit, with a hint of honeysuckle - the hallmark of botrytized wines. The best wines balance sweetness with acidity, concentration with freshness and power with elegance. Sauternes wines are primarily made from the Sémillon grape, which accounts for about eight out of every ten vines in the local vineyard.
Sauvignon Blanc accounts for most of the remaining vineyard and is the dominant grape in a small handful of Sauternes wines. Semillon forms a broad, well-structured base with aromas of beeswax and apricot, while Sauvignon Blanc contributes its characteristic herbal aromas and enough acidity to keep the resulting wine fresh rather than mouthwatering. These two varieties (sometimes supplemented by a small amount of Muscadelle and Sauvignon Gris) have become the preferred varieties here, not only because they are also used to make dry white Bordeaux wines, but also because of their susceptibility to a particular type of fungus, Botrytis cinerea (often just botrytis). Apart from yeast, without which the grape juice cannot ferment into wine, one would not expect a fungus to play a key role in winemaking.
How Château Guiraud wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of fruity desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of tarte tatin or pasta stuffed with roquefort cheese and parmesan sauce.
On the nose the sweet wine of Château Guiraud. often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, prune or lemon zest and sometimes also flavors of hazelnut, saline or nutty. In the mouth the sweet wine of Château Guiraud. is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.
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.
How Château Guiraud wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of kale soup, mushroom, bacon and gruyere quiche or milanese cutlets like in italy.
On the nose the white wine of Château Guiraud. often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, lychee or earth and sometimes also flavors of non oak, fennel or oil. In the mouth the white wine of Château Guiraud. is a powerful.
Said of a wine that is too acidic or marked by unpleasant vegetal tastes.
Planning a wine route in the of Sauternes? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Guiraud.
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.
My book The Complete Bordeaux, which has been revised every five years, is soon to be published in its fourth edition. This may seem like excessive haste, given the scope of the book, but it is astonishing how rapidly changes can take place in the region. Burgundy, in contrast, is relatively stable, since most properties are family-owned and tend to stay that way. But not so in Bordeaux, where there are ample opportunities for newcomers to acquire established properties, as they have been doing ...
Château Climens owner Lurton has sold a majority stake in the prestigious, Barsac-based estate to Jean-Hubert Moitry and his family, via the family’s Patrimonia Développement group, it was announced this week. It marks the Moitry family’s first investment in the wine sector, and represents a major deal in the Bordeaux wine world. Financial details weren’t disclosed. Nicknamed ‘Lord of Barsac’, Climens is one of the Premier Grand Cru Classé estates of Sauternes and Barsac listed in Bordeaux ...
Jean-Guillaume Prats is set to leave the business around four years after being appointed CEO and president of Domaines Barons de Rothschild (DBR Lafite). A DBR Lafite spokesperson said Prats would leave before the end of the year, in order to ‘devote himself to his family business and to consulting’. Group chairwoman Saskia de Rothschild will take over the executive management of DBR Lafite as of December. Prats’ arrival at DBR Lafite was announced in November 2017 as part of a leadership ...
Said of a wine that is too acidic or marked by unpleasant vegetal tastes.
