The Château Haut Saint Clair of Saint-Émilion of Bordeaux

Château Haut Saint Clair - Château du Vieux Vigneau Puisseguin Saint-Émilion
The winery offers 9 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 244 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Saint-Émilion in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Haut Saint Clair is one of the best wineries to follow in Saint-Émilion.. It offers 9 wines for sale in of Saint-Émilion to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Haut Saint Clair wines

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

The top red wines of Château Haut Saint Clair

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Haut Saint Clair

How Château Haut Saint Clair wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef miroton, lamb tagine with prunes and almonds or rabbit with basquaise sauce.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Haut Saint Clair

On the nose the red wine of Château Haut Saint Clair. often reveals types of flavors of leather, non oak or earth and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Château Haut Saint Clair. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Haut Saint Clair

  • 2004With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.11/5
  • 2006With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.70/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Haut Saint Clair.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot
  • Malbec
  • Petit Verdot

Discovering the wine region of Saint-Émilion

The wine region of Saint-Émilion is located in the region of Libournais of Bordeaux of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Baron Philippe de Rothschild or the Château Le Chatelet produce mainly wines red and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Saint-Émilion are Merlot, Cabernet franc and Cabernet-Sauvignon, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Saint-Émilion often reveals types of flavors of black fruits, savory or cocoa and sometimes also flavors of bramble, raisin or sour cherry.

In the mouth of Saint-Émilion is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 645 estates and châteaux in the of Saint-Émilion, producing 833 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Saint-Émilion go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Haut Saint Clair

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

Discover the grape variety: Malbec

Malbec, a high-yielding red grape variety, produces tannic and colourful wines. It is produced in different wine-growing regions and changes its name according to the grape variety. Called Auxerrois in Cahors, Malbec in Bordeaux, it is also known as Côt. 6,000 hectares of the Malbec grape are grown in France (in decline since the 1950s). Malbec is also very successful in Argentina. The country has become the world's leading producer of Malbec and offers wines with great potential.

News about Château Haut Saint Clair 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 ...

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

Wartime Cognac

The French shipment of 600 bottles of De Haartman & Co Cognac – plus 15 boxes of Bénédictine liqueur – is believed to have been destined for Tsar Nicholas II, but was intercepted in the Baltic Sea and sunk by a German submarine in May 1917. Now Cognac house Birkedal Hartmann has refilled 300 of the recovered bottles with Cognac dating from the early 1900s, using packaging identical to the original, and is selling them for €9,000 each. The wreck of the SS Kyros was discovered by Swedish explo ...

The word of the wine: Aromatic

Character of a wine that is particularly expressive and rich in aromas. Some grape varieties, such as Gewurztraminer or Muscat, produce very aromatic wines.