The Château Munch of Saint-Émilion of Bordeaux

Château Munch - Bordeaux Clairet
The winery offers 4 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 758 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Saint-Émilion in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Munch is one of the best wineries to follow in Saint-Émilion.. It offers 4 wines for sale in of Saint-Émilion to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Munch wines

Looking for the best Château Munch wines in Saint-Émilion among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Munch 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 Munch wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top pink wines of Château Munch

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Château Munch

How Château Munch wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of hungarian goulash, lamb tagine with peppers and artichoke bottoms or texas style ribs / loin ribs.

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

  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon

Discovering the wine region of Saint-Émilion

The wine region of Saint-Émilion is located in the region of Libournais of Bordeaux of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Baron Philippe de Rothschild or the Château Le Chatelet produce mainly wines red and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Saint-Émilion are Merlot, Cabernet franc and Cabernet-Sauvignon, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Saint-Émilion often reveals types of flavors of black fruits, savory or cocoa and sometimes also flavors of bramble, raisin or sour cherry.

In the mouth of Saint-Émilion is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 645 estates and châteaux in the of Saint-Émilion, producing 833 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Saint-Émilion go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison).

The top red wines of Château Munch

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Munch

How Château Munch wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef kidney, sausage and vegetable risotto with cookéo or saddle of hare jura style.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Munch

On the nose the red wine of Château Munch. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, oaky or leather and sometimes also flavors of mocha, non oak or earth. In the mouth the red wine of Château Munch. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Munch

  • 2011With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2008With an average score of 3.70/5

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

  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Malbec

Discover the grape variety: Malbec

Malbec, a high-yielding red grape variety, produces tannic and colourful wines. It is produced in different wine-growing regions and changes its name according to the grape variety. Called Auxerrois in Cahors, Malbec in Bordeaux, it is also known as Côt. 6,000 hectares of the Malbec grape are grown in France (in decline since the 1950s). Malbec is also very successful in Argentina. The country has become the world's leading producer of Malbec and offers wines with great potential.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Munch

Planning a wine route in the of Saint-Émilion? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Munch.

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 Munch and wines from the region

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

Best in Show: The top 50 wines of DWWA 2022

The 0.27% of entries awarded Best in Show at this year’s Decanter World Wine Awards reflect the inspiring world of wine and quest for quality among winemakers globally, with 50 wines expressing the best of their categories. An all-time record for wines tasted at the world’s largest wine competition, it’s quite possible that Decanter World Wine Awards 2022 marks the largest-ever wine competition to be held in history. And of the record-breaking 18,244 wines tasted, just 50 were ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘A wine’s visual cues shout, stamp, whistle and roar’

Disconcerting: I couldn’t forget this bottle for days afterwards. Still can’t. Back in August, wine critic Lin Liu MW (together with her partner Philippe Lejeune of Château de Chambert in Cahors) came to dinner, en route to a short holiday in Provence. One of the bottles Lin brought for us to try together was the 2018 Les Rocheuses, Parcelles No 5 et 6, from Château Le Rey in Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux. It came in a slope-shouldered bottle, not a classic Bordeaux bottle. We tried it with some R ...

The word of the wine: Botrytis cinerea

This fungus, also called noble rot, develops during the over-ripening phase and is an ally of great sweet white wines, when it concentrates the juice of the berries. It requires the humidity of morning fogs and beautiful sunny days, gives musts very rich in sugar and brings to the wines the famous taste of "roasted".