The Château la Fleur Chaigneau of Libournais of Bordeaux

Château la Fleur Chaigneau
The winery offers 6 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 1458 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Libournais in the region of Bordeaux

The Château la Fleur Chaigneau is one of the best wineries to follow in Libournais.. It offers 6 wines for sale in of Libournais to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château la Fleur Chaigneau wines

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

The top red wines of Château la Fleur Chaigneau

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château la Fleur Chaigneau

How Château la Fleur Chaigneau wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of monkfish tail with white butter, languedoc-roussillon lamb en papillote and its tajine with... or rabbit with beer and mustard.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château la Fleur Chaigneau

On the nose the red wine of Château la Fleur Chaigneau. often reveals types of flavors of oak, red fruit or black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Château la Fleur Chaigneau. is a powerful with a lot of tannins present in the mouth.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château la Fleur Chaigneau

  • 2009With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2003With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2008With an average score of 3.85/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.82/5
  • 2007With an average score of 3.70/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château la Fleur Chaigneau.

  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc

Discovering the wine region of Libournais

Rich in world-renowned wines, such as Saint-Emilion Grands Crus and Bordeaux/libournais/pomerol">Pomerol, the Libourne region Lies on the right bank of the Dordogne, on the edge of the Périgord. The region takes its name from the port city of Libourne, where many merchants from the Correze settled in the early 19th century. But its jewel is the small medieval city of Saint-Emilion, listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site and one of the most famous showcases of the Bordeaux wine region. The region is very homogeneous due to its hilly landscapes, its geology (predominantly limestone subsoil), the concentration of vineyards and the importance of family-run, small or medium-sized estates, which contrast with the large Medoc-type estates.

The Libournais is also Distinguished by its Grape variety dominated by Merlot, which gives Finesse, roundness and fruitiness to the red wines and allows them to age well, even if they generally Open up more quickly than those of appellations dominated by Cabernet Sauvignon. .

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château la Fleur Chaigneau

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

Discover the grape variety: Merlot

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.

News about Château la Fleur Chaigneau and wines from the region

Bordeaux winemaker turns north to make Breton Chardonnay

Lamballe, CEO of window manufacturer FenêtréA, purchased the 25-hectare property Kerfraval in the village of Baden, near the natural harbour of the Gulf of Morbihan, in March 2022. Sallaud will transform Kerfraval into a wine estate, named Domaine Lamballe, comprising a winery – where he will make still and sparkling wine – a visitor centre and six gites. ‘We will plant 10ha of Chardonnay in April this year to make still and sparkling wines,’ Sallaud told Decanter. ‘Mr Lamballe loves Chablis, he ...

Courvoisier Mizunara: the launch of a collaborative Cognac

Described by Courvoisier as ‘daring’, ‘visionary’ and ‘a first-of-its-kind collaboration’, Courvoisier Mizunara was created by the house’s recently-retired maître de chai, Patrice Pinet, and Shinji Fukuyo, chief blender of Japanese whisky maker Suntory. The project dates back to 2015, when the president of Suntory visited Courvoisier at Jarnac shortly after Suntory took over Beam Global, the Cognac house’s then owner, in a deal worth US$16bn. Pinet expressed an interest in experimenting with miz ...

Rare Lynch-Bages auction with ‘mythical’ 1961 is 100% sold

Strong demand for Château Lynch-Bages wines from collectors in Europe, US and Asia helped ensure all 342 lots in the London-based auction were sold, said Sotheby’s. Total sales at the 25 March event hit £877,826 ($1.16m), eclipsing a pre-sale high estimate of just under £700,000. It’s another sign of a strong auction market, and of Lynch-Bages’ popularity; this Pauillac-based Bordeaux estate owned by the Cazes family has long been known for punching above its fifth growth status in the 1855 Clas ...

The word of the wine: Perlant

Said of a slightly effervescent wine.