Château le Maine-PerinGraves Blanc
White wine
This wine generally goes well with vegetarian, poultry or rich fish (salmon, tuna etc).
Food and wine pairings with Graves Blanc
Pairings that work perfectly with Graves Blanc
Original food and wine pairings with Graves Blanc
The Graves Blanc of Château le Maine-Perin matches generally quite well with dishes of pork, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of chicken bonne femme, quiche with bacon and gruyère cheese or broccoli gratin.
Details and technical informations about Château le Maine-Perin's Graves Blanc.
Discover the grape variety: Aledo
Table grape with long bunches and juicy, crunchy golden berries, firm flesh and a neutral sweet flavour, prized for its exceptional shelf life. Late ripening. Grown mainly for end-of-year consumption (Christmas grape) in the Vinalopó (Alicante), it benefits from the IGP Uva de Mesa Embolsada del Vinalopó. Spanish white table grape variety, native to the Valencia and Alicante region.
Informations about the Château le Maine-Perin
The Château le Maine-Perin is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 6 wines for sale in the of Graves to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Graves
Historic cradle of Bordeaux wine, left bank south of the city. Structured reds on siliceous gravel: firm cassis-laden Cabernet Sauvignon, velvety Merlot, perfumed Cabernet Franc, signature notes of black fruit, smoke, graphite and cigar box. Elegant dry whites blending Sauvignon (citrus, boxwood, freshness) and Sémillon (wax, honey, richness with ageing), among Bordeaux's longest-lived. Also sweet Graves Supérieures.
The wine region of Bordeaux
World-renowned age-worthy reds, led by round Merlot (plum, black fruit) or firm Cabernet Sauvignon (blackcurrant, cedar, graphite), blended with Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot for tannic structure. Structured Médoc and Graves, velvety Saint-Émilion and Pomerol. Also crisp dry whites (Sauvignon/Sémillon) and opulent sweet Sauternes with honey and candied fruit. A 110,000 ha Gironde vineyard, 65 appellations, cradle of the 1855 classified growths.
The word of the wine: Polyphenols
Substance contained essentially in the skin of the grape. The main ones are anthocyanins, which give red wines their colour and tannins.
