Château PassaGrenache Grand Roussillon Doux Naturel
Natural sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.
Food and wine pairings with Grenache Grand Roussillon Doux Naturel
Pairings that work perfectly with Grenache Grand Roussillon Doux Naturel
Original food and wine pairings with Grenache Grand Roussillon Doux Naturel
The Grenache Grand Roussillon Doux Naturel of Château Passa matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of beef tongue in hot sauce or bocconcini (veal rolls with ham and comté).
Details and technical informations about Château Passa's Grenache Grand Roussillon Doux Naturel.
Discover the grape variety: Madeleine-Sylvaner
Of unknown origin, it is nevertheless a very old vitis vinifera cultivated and used as both a table grape and a wine grape. It is somewhat similar to the Madeleine angevine and is not related to the Sylvaner. It can be found in the United States, England, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, etc. and is virtually unknown in France.
Informations about the Château Passa
The Château Passa is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 26 wines for sale in the of Grand Roussillon to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Grand Roussillon
Grand Roussillon is a Sweet, high Alcohol white wine produced in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of southern France. It is a natural sweet wine made by Mutage, which gives it an alcohol content of about 16% and a high natural residual sugar content. Some Grand Roussillon wines are produced using a prolonged oxidative ageing process, such as Rancio; all are subject to a minimum of two years' ageing before being released for sale. The main Grape varieties used to make this relatively rare wine are Muscat Blanc, Muscat d'Alexandrie, Grenache, Grenache Blanc, Grenache Gris and Maccabeu.
The wine region of Languedoc-Roussillon
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 word of the wine: Broker
In the past, he was a sort of fraud control agent who had to watch over the quality of merchant wines (he could carry a sword!). His function has evolved towards expertise (it was the brokers who established the famous 1855 classification in Bordeaux) and today he puts the producer in contact with the merchant.
