The Chateau Morrisette is one of the best wineries to follow in Virginie.. It offers 39 wines for sale in of Virginia to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Chateau Morrisette wines in Virginia among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Chateau Morrisette 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 Chateau Morrisette wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Chateau Morrisette wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of spanish paella, smoked salmon pasta gratin or quiche with bacon and gruyère cheese.
On the nose the white wine of Chateau Morrisette. often reveals types of flavors of microbio, oak or citrus fruit and sometimes also flavors of non oak, earth or tree fruit.
Virginia is a state on the eastern seaboard of the United States, located immediately South of Maryland and North of the Carolinas. The state covers 42,750 square miles (110,750 km2) of mountains, valleys and the Atlantic coastal Complex that forms its eastern border. From the Cumberland and Blue Ridge Mountains in the west to the coastal creeks and estuaries in the east, Virginia's topography and geology are varied, to say the least. The landscape around the Chesapeake Bay - a vast coastal inlet that separates the main state from its Eastern Shore - could hardly be more different from that below Mt Rogers (1,750m), 480km to the west.
The Shenandoah Valley is the largest AVA in the country. It stretches for 240 km at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the natural boundary that separates Virginia from West Virginia. The Monticello AVA is the oldest, formed in February 1984 and located around Charlottesville in Central Virginia. It has the honor of being the home of Thomas Jefferson, his extensive French wine collection and the state's first winery.
How Chateau Morrisette wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of stuffed peppers, leg or shoulder of lamb with honey and thyme or broccoli gratin.
On the nose the red wine of Chateau Morrisette. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, red fruit or black fruit.
How Chateau Morrisette wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of feijoada ( portuguese cassoulet ), pumpkin and bacon pie or rabbit with white wine.
Acid obtained by malolactic fermentation.
How Chateau Morrisette wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food such as recipes of steamed pork chops, tuna and mayonnaise onigiri or tuscan linguine.
On the nose the sweet wine of Chateau Morrisette. often reveals types of flavors of earth, microbio or oak and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit or red fruit.
Petit Manseng is a white grape variety of Pyrenean origin. Its small berries have a hard, well-ventilated skin, which allows Petit Manseng to resist grey rot. On the other hand, this variety is very sensitive to noble rot, which concentrates the aromas and makes it possible to produce remarkable sweet wines with flavours of exotic fruits, grapefruit, honey, gingerbread, etc. Rich in alcohol and acidity, these wines are very well balanced and very fine. petit manseng also produces fruity dry white wines. It is also used in the AOC Béarn, Jurançon, Pacherenc-du-Vic-Bilh, Tursan...
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The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). 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. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.
