The Château Les Vieux Rocs of Bordeaux

Château Les Vieux Rocs
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 2406 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Bordeaux

The Château Les Vieux Rocs is one of the best wineries to follow in Bordeaux.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Bordeaux to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Les Vieux Rocs wines

Looking for the best Château Les Vieux Rocs wines in Bordeaux among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Les Vieux Rocs 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 Les Vieux Rocs wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top sweet wines of Château Les Vieux Rocs

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Château Les Vieux Rocs

How Château Les Vieux Rocs wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of fruity desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of the coughing cat's apple crumble or roquefort and cherry tomato pie.

Organoleptic analysis of sweet wines of Château Les Vieux Rocs

On the nose the sweet wine of Château Les Vieux Rocs. often reveals types of flavors of honey, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit. In the mouth the sweet wine of Château Les Vieux Rocs. is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Château Les Vieux Rocs

  • 2011With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2010With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.80/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Château Les Vieux Rocs.

  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Sémillon
  • Muscadelle

Discovering the wine region of Bordeaux

Bordeaux, in southwestern France, is one of the most famous, prestigious and prolific wine regions in the world. The majority of Bordeaux wines (nearly 90% of the production Volume) are the Dry, medium and Full-bodied red Bordeaux blends for which it is famous. The finest (and most expensive) are the wines of the great châteaux of Haut-Médoc and the right bank appellations of Saint-Émilion and Pomerol. The former focuses (at the highest level) on Cabernet Sauvignon, the latter on Merlot.

The legendary reds are complemented by high-quality white wines made from Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc. These range from dry whites that challenge the best of Burgundy (Pessac-Léognan is particularly renowned) to the Sweet, botrytised nectars of Sauternes. Although Bordeaux is most famous for its wines produced in specific districts or communes, many of its wines fall under other, broader appellations. These include AOC Bordeaux, Bordeaux Supérieur and Crémant de Bordeaux.

The Bordeaux Red appellation represents more than a third of the total production. The official Bordeaux wine region extends 130 kilometres inland from the Atlantic coast. 111,000 hectares of vineyards were registered in 2018, a figure that has remained largely constant over the previous decade. However, the number of winegrowers has consolidated; in 2018 there were around 6,000, compared to 9,000 a decade earlier.

The top red wines of Château Les Vieux Rocs

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Les Vieux Rocs

How Château Les Vieux Rocs wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of pork tongue with tomato sauce and pickles, lamb in spicy sauce or duck breast with balsamic vinegar.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Les Vieux Rocs

On the nose the red wine of Château Les Vieux Rocs. often reveals types of flavors of raspberry, spices or red fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Château Les Vieux Rocs. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Les Vieux Rocs

  • 2010With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Les Vieux Rocs.

  • Merlot
  • Petit Verdot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Malbec

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.

The top pink wines of Château Les Vieux Rocs

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Château Les Vieux Rocs

How Château Les Vieux Rocs wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of american style beef marinade, lamb stew from my mum or paella valenciana (without seafood).

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Château Les Vieux Rocs.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot

The word of the wine: Liqueur wine

Unfermented must with added brandy, also called liqueur wine: Pineau des Charentes, Floc de Gascogne, Macvin du Jura, Ratafia, Cartagène du Languedoc.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Les Vieux Rocs

Planning a wine route in the of Bordeaux? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Les Vieux Rocs.

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon blanc

Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.