The Château La Gravette of Cahors of South West

Château La Gravette - Minervois Rosé
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.4.
It is ranked in the top 632 of the estates of South West.
It is located in Cahors in the region of South West

The Château La Gravette is one of the best wineries to follow in Cahors.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Cahors to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château La Gravette wines

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

The top pink wines of Château La Gravette

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Château La Gravette

How Château La Gravette wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of shrimp marinade, goat cheese and bacon quiche or stuffed sea almonds with cream cheese.

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Château La Gravette

On the nose the pink wine of Château La Gravette. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Château La Gravette

  • 2016With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.10/5

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

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Grenache
  • Mourvedre

Discovering the wine region of Cahors

The wine region of Cahors is located in the region of Haut-Pays of South West of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Château Lagrézette or the Château Lagrézette produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Cahors are Malbec, Merlot and Tannat, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Cahors often reveals types of flavors of cherry, tomatoes or toasty and sometimes also flavors of apples, citrus or tropical fruit.

In the mouth of Cahors is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 308 estates and châteaux in the of Cahors, producing 922 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Cahors go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château La Gravette

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

Discover the grape variety: Grenache

Grenache noir is a grape variety that originated in Spain. It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by medium to large bunches, and grapes of medium size. Grenache noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Languedoc & Roussillon, Rhone Valley, Loire Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

News about Château La Gravette and wines from the region

Andrew Jefford: ‘A wine’s visual cues shout, stamp, whistle and roar’

Disconcerting: I couldn’t forget this bottle for days afterwards. Still can’t. Back in August, wine critic Lin Liu MW (together with her partner Philippe Lejeune of Château de Chambert in Cahors) came to dinner, en route to a short holiday in Provence. One of the bottles Lin brought for us to try together was the 2018 Les Rocheuses, Parcelles No 5 et 6, from Château Le Rey in Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux. It came in a slope-shouldered bottle, not a classic Bordeaux bottle. We tried it with some R ...

Chile harvest report 2022: ‘a challenging year in terms of climate’ 

Just over 6,400km in length, Chile is a country with a fascinating range of terroirs. This is fully reflected in the diversity of its wines. Heavily influenced by air currents from the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Andes to the east, all of Chile’s wine producing valleys have their own microclimates, as well as distinct complex soil composition. This variety means that individual vineyards experienced the harvest conditions of 2022 in different ways. It was a year that saw the continuation o ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘2021 has been the year of all the miseries’

How’s the weather been this year? Awful. ‘La nature m’écoeure’, one of my wine-growing friends posted on Facebook on 8 April, having been out to look at the frost-crippled shoots on his vines that morning: ‘Nature disgusts me’. It takes a lot to make a wine-grower feel that. He wasn’t alone. Jeremiads echo around the northern hemisphere as 2021 closes. It’s been the year of all the miseries. None suffered more horribly than the growers of Germany’s Ahr valley, where floodwaters caused by the fou ...

The word of the wine: Vintage scale

Complex system of classification of the communes of Champagne according to the value of the grapes which are produced there. In other regions, hierarchical situation of the productions classified by various authorities.