Château la VarièreChevalier de la Varière Anjou Villages Brissac
Red wine
This wine generally goes well with pork, poultry or beef.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
Food and wine pairings with Chevalier de la Varière Anjou Villages Brissac
Pairings that work perfectly with Chevalier de la Varière Anjou Villages Brissac
Original food and wine pairings with Chevalier de la Varière Anjou Villages Brissac
The Chevalier de la Varière Anjou Villages Brissac of Château la Varière matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of express veal stew in a pressure cooker, roast pork orloff or rabbit legs with mushrooms.
Details and technical informations about Château la Varière's Chevalier de la Varière Anjou Villages Brissac.
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.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Chevalier de la Varière Anjou Villages Brissac from Château la Varière are 2014, 2018, 2016, 2017 and 2015.
Informations about the Château la Varière
The Château la Varière is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 54 wines for sale in the of Anjou-Villages 'Brissac' to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Anjou-Villages 'Brissac'
The wine region of Anjou-Villages 'Brissac' is located in the region of Anjou-Villages of Loire Valley of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine de Bablut or the Domaine de Bablut produce mainly wines red and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Anjou-Villages 'Brissac' are Cabernet franc, Cabernet-Sauvignon and Gamay noir, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Anjou-Villages 'Brissac' often reveals types of flavors of black fruit, mushroom or black currant and sometimes also flavors of pepper, tobacco or blueberry.
The wine region of Loire Valley
The Loire Valley is a key wine region in western France. It follows the course of the Loire River on its Long journey through the heart of France, from the inland hills of the Auvergne to the plains of the French Atlantic coast near Nantes (Muscadet country). Important in terms of quantity and quality, the region produces large quantities (about 4 million h/l each year) of everyday wines, as well as some of France's greatest wines. Diversity is another of the region's major assets; the styles of wine produced here range from the light, tangy Muscadet to the Sweet, honeyed Bonnezeaux, the Sparkling whites of Vouvray and the juicy, Tannic reds of Chinon and Saumur.
The word of the wine: Performance
Quantity of grapes harvested per hectare. In AOC, the average yield is limited on the proposal of the appellation syndicate, validated by the Inao. The use of high-performance plant material (especially clones) and better control of vine diseases have increased yields. This is not without consequences on the quality of the wines (dilution) and on the state of the market (too much wine). We must not over-simplify: low yields are not synonymous with quality, and it is often in years with generous harvests that we find the greatest vintages (1982 and 1986 in Bordeaux, 1996 in Champagne, 1990 and 2005 in Burgundy...).
