The Château Ministre is one of the best wineries to follow in Languedoc.. It offers 26 wines for sale in of Languedoc to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Château Ministre wines in Languedoc among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Ministre 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 Ministre wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Château Ministre wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of roast beef in a crust (onions & mustard), pizza queen with merguez or steak tartare.
Languedoc (formerly Coteaux du Languedoc) is a key appellation used in the Languedoc-Roussillon wine region of southern France. It covers Dry table wines of all three colors (red, white and rosé) from the entire region, but leaves Sweet and Sparkling wines to other more specialized appellations. About 75% of all Languedoc wines are red, with the remaining 25% split roughly down the middle between whites and rosés. The appellation covers most of the Languedoc region and almost a third of all the vineyards in France.
The typical Languedoc red wine is medium-bodied and Fruity. The best examples are slightly heavier and have darker, more savoury aromas, with notes of spice, undergrowth and leather. The Grape varieties used to make them are the classic southern French ones: Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre, often with a touch of Carignan or Cinsaut. The white wines of the appellation are made from Grenache Blanc, Clairette and Bourboulenc, with occasional use of Viognier, Marsanne and Roussanne from the Rhône Valley.
How Château Ministre wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of pasta with zucchini, magic cake cheese quiche or thai chicken with red curry and green curry in coconut milk.
In the mouth the white wine of Château Ministre. is a powerful.
White Viognier is a grape variety that originated in France (Rhone Valley). 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 grapes of small size. White Viognier can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone Valley, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Savoie & Bugey, Provence & Corsica, Loire Valley, Beaujolais.
How Château Ministre wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of fettuccine with cream and cheese, quiche with bacon and gruyère cheese or black tapenade.
Rosé wine made from a vat of black grapes after a short maceration period.
How Château Ministre wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal such as recipes of homemade italian lasagna, pasta salmon - fresh cream or sauté of veal with tomato.
On the nose the red wine of Château Ministre. often reveals types of flavors of oak, smoke or non oak and sometimes also flavors of earth, spices or red fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Château Ministre. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
White muscat is a white grape variety of Greek origin. Present in several Mediterranean vineyards, it has several synonyms such as muscat de Die, muscat blanc and frontignac. In France, it occupies a little less than 7,000 ha out of a total of 45,000 ha worldwide. Its young shoots are downy. Its youngest leaves are shiny, bronzed and scabrous. The berries and bunches of this variety are all medium-sized. The flesh of the berries is juicy, sweet and firm. Muscat à petits grains has a second ripening period and buds early in the year. It is moderately vigorous and must be pruned short. It likes poor, stony slopes. This variety is often exposed to spring frosts. It fears mildew, wasps, grape worms, court-noué, grey rot and powdery mildew. Muscat à petits grains is used to make rosé wines and dry white wines. Orange, brown sugar, barley sugar and raisins are the known aromas of these wines.
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Interspecific crossing between Seibel 5474 (Seibel 405 x Seibel 867) and Chardonnay by Jean-François Ravat. After 1945, it was already considered a quality grape variety, and is now listed in the Official Catalogue of Vine Varieties, list A1.
