The Château Lescalle of Bordeaux Supérieur of Bordeaux

Château Lescalle
The winery offers 5 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 17 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Bordeaux Supérieur in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Lescalle is one of the world's great estates. It offers 5 wines for sale in of Bordeaux Supérieur to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Lescalle wines

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

The top pink wines of Château Lescalle

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Château Lescalle

How Château Lescalle wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of beef luc lake, quick couscous or pork roulades with cream and mushrooms.

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Château Lescalle.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Bordeaux Supérieur

Bordeaux Supérieur is an appellation level applied to wines produced in the Generic area of the Bordeaux PDO. They are produced from the classic Bordeaux Grape varieties. The reds are, as the name suggests, intended to be a slightly "superior" form of the standard Bordeaux AOC wines. They are therefore heavily based on Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, with smaller amounts of Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot and Malbec.

Some wines may feature the "lost child" of Bordeaux, Carménère. Small quantities of white wine are produced. However, as the wines must be Sweet, this does not represent a level of quality as is the case for the red designation. These wines are generally made from Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon.

Some blends may include Muscadelle, Ugni Blanc and Merlot Blanc. Similarly, the Graves Supérieures appellation is specific to sweet white wines. Only two French wine regions have adopted the concept of having a "superior" level for their appellations. The other is Beaujolais.

The top red wines of Château Lescalle

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Lescalle

How Château Lescalle wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of oxtail with seed sauce, rabbit with hunter's sauce or wild boar, roe deer or doe leg.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Lescalle

On the nose the red wine of Château Lescalle. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, chocolate or red fruit and sometimes also flavors of spices, oak or earth. In the mouth the red wine of Château Lescalle. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Lescalle

  • 2005With an average score of 4.25/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.81/5
  • 2004With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2006With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.62/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Lescalle.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot
  • Petit Verdot

Discover the grape variety: Petit Verdot

Petit Verdot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (southwest). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches and small grapes. Petit Verdot noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Armagnac.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Lescalle

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

Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

News about Château Lescalle and wines from the region

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Lugny

Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Lugny, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are available in French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneWines ...

An overview of Saint-Véran appellation

Let’s have a look at Saint-Véran vineyard and discover the magnificent and very diverse landscapes of this appellation situated in the South of Bourgogne. Saint-Véran is one of the 5 Village appellations with Pouilly-Fuissé, Pouilly-Vinzelles, Pouilly-Loché and Viré-Clessé. Like them, it produces only white wines from the Chardonnay grape. What makes it special is that the vineyard is cut in two dinstinct parts by the vineyard of Pouilly-Fuissé. As anywhere else in the vineyard in Bourgogn ...

The Morey Saint Denis appellation seen by Laurent Lignier

Laurent Lignier from Domaine Hubert Lignier and Président of the winegrowers union, mentions the great diversity in the expression of the Morey-Saint-DenisPremier Cru wines. This video is taken from the “Rendez-vous avec les vins de Bourgogne” program broadcasted in April 2021. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneWines/​​​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinsdebourgogne/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bivb​ ...

The word of the wine: Bâtonnage

A very old technique that has come back into fashion in modern oenology, which consists of shaking the white wine in the barrels at the end of fermentation, or after fermentation, with a stick or a flail, in order to suspend the fine lees composed of yeasts at the end of their activity. This process is sometimes used for red wines.