The Château Montdomaine is one of the world's great estates. It offers 18 wines for sale in of Vouvray to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Château Montdomaine wines in Vouvray among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Montdomaine 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 Montdomaine wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Château Montdomaine wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of ham and cheese cake, leek and fresh salmon tart or quiche without pastry, courgette and blue cheese.
On the nose the white wine of Château Montdomaine. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Château Montdomaine. is a with a nice freshness.
100% Chenin Blanc on the tuffeau slopes of Touraine: a unique stylistic palette from sparkling brut to botrytised sweet. Taut, straight dry with notes of green apple, citrus and chalk. Round, honeyed off-dry with ripe fruits. Opulent sweet and luscious wines with aromas of quince, honey and fruit paste from late harvest or noble rot.
Lively, brioche-like traditional-method sparkling. Legendary acidity giving an ageing potential of several decades.
How Château Montdomaine wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, lean fish or fruity desserts such as recipes of grilled lobster with tarragon cream sauce, angry fried whiting or the coughing cat's apple crumble.
On the nose the sparkling wine of Château Montdomaine. often reveals types of flavors of green apple, oak or tree fruit.
Whites with many faces: mineral and taut at Chablis (lemon, green apple, flint), opulent and buttery at Meursault and Puligny-Montrachet (hazelnut, brioche, yellow fruits), tense and chalky in Champagne (Blanc de Blancs). Also vinified sparkling and widely exported (Sonoma, Margaret River, Casablanca). A Burgundian variety, a cross of Pinot Noir × Gouais Blanc, half-sibling of Aligoté.
How Château Montdomaine wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of lamb, pork or poultry such as recipes of marinated leg of lamb with herbs, country cabbage or basque piperade.
On the nose the red wine of Château Montdomaine. often reveals types of flavors of raspberry, earth or red fruit and sometimes also flavors of black fruit, cherry or smoke. In the mouth the red wine of Château Montdomaine. is a with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
Specialist in wine-making techniques. It is a profession and not a passion: one can be an oenophile without being an oenologist (and the opposite too!). Formerly attached to the Faculty of Pharmacy, oenology studies have become independent and have their own university course. Learning to make wine requires a good chemical background but also, increasingly, a good knowledge of the plant. Some oenologists work in laboratories (analysis). Others, the consulting oenologists, work directly in the properties.
How Château Montdomaine wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef such as recipes of beef tagine with prunes and almonds.
Deep, velvety reds with an intense purple colour, showing aromas of blackberry, black plum, violet, cocoa and gentle spice. Round tannins, fleshy palate, peppery length. Star of Cahors AOC (Côt, Auxerrois) in France and the absolute signature of Mendoza, Argentina (Uco Valley, Luján de Cuyo). A French South-West variety that became the Argentine emblem after its post-phylloxera decline.
Planning a wine route in the of Vouvray? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Montdomaine.
Supple, fragrant reds with fine tannins and vibrant freshness, showing raspberry, violet, green pepper, pencil lead and gentle spice aromas. Star of the Loire as a single variety (Chinon, Bourgueil, Saumur-Champigny) and of the right bank of Bordeaux in blends (Cheval Blanc at 60%). Also in semi-dry Anjou rosés. A historic Bordeaux variety, parent of Cabernet-Sauvignon, Merlot and Carmenère.
