Château la VarièreLes Guerches Quarts de Chaume Grand Cru
Sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with fruity desserts, lean fish or shellfish.
Food and wine pairings with Les Guerches Quarts de Chaume Grand Cru
Pairings that work perfectly with Les Guerches Quarts de Chaume Grand Cru
Original food and wine pairings with Les Guerches Quarts de Chaume Grand Cru
The Les Guerches Quarts de Chaume Grand Cru of Château la Varière matches generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, lean fish or fruity desserts such as recipes of quinoa with shrimp, cod with curry sauce or grandma's cherry clafoutis.
Details and technical informations about Château la Varière's Les Guerches Quarts de Chaume Grand Cru.
Discover the grape variety: Chenin blanc
Chameleon whites with taut acidity, ranging from mineral dry (Savennières, Vouvray sec) to off-dry and medium-sweet (Vouvray, Montlouis), sumptuous botrytised sweet (Quarts-de-Chaume, Bonnezeaux, Coteaux du Layon) and brilliant sparkling (Crémant de Loire, Vouvray brut). Aromas of quince, apple, honey, white flowers, beeswax and flint. An Anjou variety, also star of South Africa's Western Cape.
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 Quarts de Chaume to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Quarts de Chaume
The only Grand Cru of the Loire Valley (2011, ~40 ha in Anjou-Layon): 100% Chenin as extraordinarily complex, multi-decade sweet wines. Golden to old-gold robe, aromas of candied fruit, honey, quince and saffron notes. Successive manual tries of botrytised bunches (Botrytis cinerea), minimum 298 g/L sugar before fermentation, maximum yield 20 hl/ha. South-facing slope above morning mists of the Layon river — exceptional botrytis on draining Brioverian schists.
The wine region of Loire Valley
Kingdom of lively, dry whites and fine sparklers. Mineral, taut Sauvignon Blanc (Sancerre, Pouilly-Fumé) with citrus and gunflint notes. Multiform Chenin Blanc (Vouvray, Savennières, Layon): straight dry, floral off-dry or noble sweet honey-quince. Saline, iodised Muscadet (Melon B.
The word of the wine: Hard
A harsh, biting wine, characterized by an excess of tannins and acidity. It is often said of young wines that lack smoothness.
