The Château Joliet of Fronton of South West

Château Joliet
The winery offers 14 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is ranked in the top 55 of the estates of South West.
It is located in Fronton in the region of South West

The Château Joliet is one of the world's great estates. It offers 14 wines for sale in of Fronton to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Joliet wines

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

The top white wines of Château Joliet

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Château Joliet

How Château Joliet wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of mature and hard cheese, fruity desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of celery, apple and comté salad for kids, the coughing cat's apple crumble or surprise poultry escalope.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Château Joliet.

  • Muscadelle
  • Petit Manseng
  • Sémillon

Discovering the wine region of Fronton

The wine region of Fronton is located in the region of Haut-Pays of South West of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Château Bellevue La Forét or the Château Baudare produce mainly wines red, pink and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Fronton are Négrette, Cabernet franc and Cabernet-Sauvignon, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Fronton often reveals types of flavors of cherry, smoke or citrus and sometimes also flavors of peach, apricot or minerality.

In the mouth of Fronton is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 89 estates and châteaux in the of Fronton, producing 317 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Fronton go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal.

The top red wines of Château Joliet

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Joliet

How Château Joliet wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry such as recipes of couscous without couscous maker, lamb keftas or zucchini and goat cheese quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Joliet

On the nose the red wine of Château Joliet. often reveals types of flavors of oak.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Joliet

  • 2014With an average score of 3.73/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.53/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.38/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Joliet.

  • Negrette
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Cabernet Franc

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.

The top pink wines of Château Joliet

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Château Joliet

How Château Joliet wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, appetizers and snacks or lean fish such as recipes of mussels with curry, green tomatoes in vinegar or fish paella.

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Château Joliet.

  • Muscat Blanc
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Negrette

The word of the wine: Stave

A slat of wood that makes up the barrel.

The top sparkling wines of Château Joliet

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Château Joliet

How Château Joliet wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

Discover the grape variety: Petit Manseng

Petit Manseng is a white grape variety of Pyrenean origin. Its small berries have a hard, well-ventilated skin, which allows Petit Manseng to resist grey rot. On the other hand, this variety is very sensitive to noble rot, which concentrates the aromas and makes it possible to produce remarkable sweet wines with flavours of exotic fruits, grapefruit, honey, gingerbread, etc. Rich in alcohol and acidity, these wines are very well balanced and very fine. petit manseng also produces fruity dry white wines. It is also used in the AOC Béarn, Jurançon, Pacherenc-du-Vic-Bilh, Tursan...

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Joliet

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

Discover the grape variety: White muscat

White muscat is a white grape variety of Greek origin. Present in several Mediterranean vineyards, it has several synonyms such as muscat de Die, muscat blanc and frontignac. In France, it occupies a little less than 7,000 ha out of a total of 45,000 ha worldwide. Its young shoots are downy. Its youngest leaves are shiny, bronzed and scabrous. The berries and bunches of this variety are all medium-sized. The flesh of the berries is juicy, sweet and firm. Muscat à petits grains has a second ripening period and buds early in the year. It is moderately vigorous and must be pruned short. It likes poor, stony slopes. This variety is often exposed to spring frosts. It fears mildew, wasps, grape worms, court-noué, grey rot and powdery mildew. Muscat à petits grains is used to make rosé wines and dry white wines. Orange, brown sugar, barley sugar and raisins are the known aromas of these wines.