The Winery Maximin of Saint-Georges-Saint-Émilion of Bordeaux

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The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 2.9.
It is ranked in the top 40 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Saint-Georges-Saint-Émilion in the region of Bordeaux

The Winery Maximin is one of the world's great estates. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Saint-Georges-Saint-Émilion to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Maximin wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Maximin

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Maximin

How Winery Maximin wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, appetizers and snacks or lean fish such as recipes of spaghetti with clams, boquerones anchovies in vinegar or lasagna of the sea.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Maximin

  • 2015With an average score of 2.90/5

Discovering the wine region of Saint-Georges-Saint-Émilion

The wine region of Saint-Georges-Saint-Émilion is located in the region of Saint-Émilion of Bordeaux of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Château St. Georges or the Château Vieux Guillou produce mainly wines red and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Saint-Georges-Saint-Émilion are Merlot, Cabernet-Sauvignon and Cabernet franc, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety.

On the nose of Saint-Georges-Saint-Émilion often reveals types of flavors of cherry, citrus fruit or jam and sometimes also flavors of pepper, mushroom or clove. In the mouth of Saint-Georges-Saint-Émilion is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 37 estates and châteaux in the of Saint-Georges-Saint-Émilion, producing 50 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Saint-Georges-Saint-Émilion go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Maximin

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

Discover the grape variety: Mondeuse noire

Cultivated for a very long time in Savoie, it is not the black form of mondeuse blanche and Mondeuse grise is a natural mutation of mondeuse noire. According to Thierry Lacombe (I.N.R.A./Montpellier), the latter is the result of a natural intraspecific crossing between the black tressot and the white mondeuse. Mondeuse grise and Mondeuse noire are both registered in the official catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A1.

News about Winery Maximin and wines from the region

St-Emilion 2012 Classification upheld in court

Bordeaux’s administrative court of appeal has effectively validated the St-Emilion 2012 Classification after rejecting long-standing complaints from three châteaux. France’s national appellation body, INAO, said the decision upholds an original court ruling from 2015. It added the complainants still have two months in which to appeal the judgement, however. Legal challenges to the St-Emilion 2012 Classification have been a feature of the past decade in Bordeaux. INAO said it was ‘reassured’ by t ...

Behind LVMH’s Himalayan wine project: the villages of Ao Yun

It’s no easy task to establish a super-premium wine in an entirely new region, particularly when inviting potential retail partners or distributors to the vineyard involves journeying to a distant corner of the Himalayas in the outer reaches of the Yunnan province, southwestern China. For my journey, after four flights from Bordeaux to Shanghai, Chengdu then Shangri-La, it was a four-hour drive up through stunning mountain passes to the foothills (here, that means 2,200m above sea level) of the ...

Vinexpo Paris to host wine and climate change talk

Wine Paris & Vinexpo Paris, running from 14 to 16 February, will host a discussion on climate change as part of series of roundtable ‘wine talks’ at the show. Decanter contributor and international consultant Rupert Joy will moderate the discussion on ‘making wine in a changing climate’, to be held at 2:30pm on Tuesday 15 February, in Hall Six. Members of the panel include: Pau Roca Blaso – director general of the International Organisation of Vine & Wine Jeremy Cukierman MW – dire ...

The word of the wine: Maturing (champagne)

After riddling, the bottles are stored on "point", upside down, with the neck of one bottle in the bottom of the other. The duration of this maturation is very important: in contact with the dead yeasts, the wine takes on subtle aromas and gains in roundness and fatness. A brut without year must remain at least 15 months in the cellar after bottling, a vintage 36 months.