Château GuiraudSauternes (Premier Grand Cru Classé)
Sweet wine
In the mouth this sweet wine is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.
This wine generally goes well with fruity desserts and blue cheese.
The Sauternes (Premier Grand Cru Classé) of the Château Guiraud is in the top 10 of wines of Sauternes.
Taste structure of the Sauternes (Premier Grand Cru Classé) from the Château Guiraud
Light | Bold | |
Dry | Sweet | |
Soft | Acidic |
In the mouth the Sauternes (Premier Grand Cru Classé) of Château Guiraud in the region of Bordeaux is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Sauternes (Premier Grand Cru Classé) of Château Guiraud in the region of Bordeaux often reveals types of flavors of butterscotch, pineapple or cream and sometimes also flavors of cherry, grapefruit or tropical.
Food and wine pairings with Sauternes (Premier Grand Cru Classé)
Pairings that work perfectly with Sauternes (Premier Grand Cru Classé)
Original food and wine pairings with Sauternes (Premier Grand Cru Classé)
The Sauternes (Premier Grand Cru Classé) of Château Guiraud matches generally quite well with dishes of fruity desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of express cherry clafoutis or tomato and roquefort tart.
Details and technical informations about Château Guiraud's Sauternes (Premier Grand Cru Classé).
Discover the grape variety: Millot Léon
Interspecific crossing between the 101-14 Millardet and Grasset (vitis riparia X vitis rupestris) and the goldriesling obtained by Eugène Kühlmann (1858-1932) around 1911 and marketed around 1921. With these same parents, he obtained among others the Maréchal Foch. Léon Millot is still found in Canada, the United States, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Poland and England. In France, where it was grown for a long time in Alsace, it is no longer grown in the vineyards, although it is listed in the Official Catalogue of Vine Varieties, list A.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Sauternes (Premier Grand Cru Classé) from Château Guiraud are 1990, 1975, 1982, 1971 and 1967.
Informations about the Château Guiraud
The Château Guiraud is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 11 wines for sale in the of Sauternes to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Sauternes
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.
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: Reims Mountain
Between Épernay and Reims, a large limestone massif with varied soils and exposure where pinot noir reigns supreme. Ambonnay, Bouzy, Verzenay, Verzy, etc., are equivalent to the Burgundian Gevrey-Chambertin and Vosne-Romanée. There are also great Chardonnays, which are rarer (Mailly, Marmery, Trépail, Villers).
