The Château Haut Marsalet of Guyenne of South West

Château Haut Marsalet - Monbazillac
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
This estate is part of the Producta.
It is ranked in the top 91 of the estates of South West.
It is located in Guyenne in the region of South West

The Château Haut Marsalet is one of the world's great estates. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Guyenne to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Haut Marsalet wines

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

The top sweet wines of Château Haut Marsalet

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Château Haut Marsalet

How Château Haut Marsalet wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or sweet desserts such as recipes of cucumber pie, garlic shrimp or the coughing cat's apple crumble.

Organoleptic analysis of sweet wines of Château Haut Marsalet

On the nose the sweet wine of Château Haut Marsalet. often reveals types of flavors of apricot, honey or earth and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Château Haut Marsalet

  • 2011With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2010With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.40/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Château Haut Marsalet.

  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Sémillon
  • Muscadelle

Discovering the wine region of Guyenne

45 kilometres east of Bordeaux, Blasimon is perched on a hillside overlooking the Gamage, a tributary of the Dordogne. Its hilly sites and its calm make it an ideal place to relax. A Village of medieval origin, its origin reflects the traditional organization of the bastides. The city conceals one of the Romanesque jewels of the Gironde, the Benedictine abbey of the X-XIII th centuries.

Also worth seeing are the medieval mills of Labarthe and Borie, the remains of the feudal Castle of Blasimon, the manor house of Pousse-Bourre, the church of Piis and the ruins of the Bonne Nouvelle chapel. The Cave Coopérative was created in 1935 and brings together winegrowers who have owned properties that have been handed down for several generations. It has a production capacity of 56,000 hectolitres of red wines with the "Bordeaux" appellation and white wines with the "Bordeaux" and "Entre-deux-Mers" appellations. Throughout the year, the Vine is surrounded by intensive care, the culture is always done according to very precise rules.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Haut Marsalet

Planning a wine route in the of Guyenne? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Haut Marsalet.

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon

Sauvignon Gris is a grape variety that originated in France (South-West). 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 bunches and small grapes. Sauvignon Gris can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Burgundy, Jura, Beaujolais, Armagnac, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey.

News about Château Haut Marsalet and wines from the region

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