The Château Peyredon Lagravette is one of the best wineries to follow in Médoc.. It offers 4 wines for sale in of Médoc to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Château Peyredon Lagravette wines in Médoc among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Peyredon Lagravette 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 Peyredon Lagravette wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Château Peyredon Lagravette wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of rabbit stew the old fashioned way, cream and tuna quiche or turkey escalope with cream and shallots.
Bordeaux's Médoc is an area of coastal lagoons, sand dunes and pine forests located on the 45th parallel. It is also a global wine powerhouse, and home to four of the world's most prestigious wine villages: Pauillac, Margaux, Saint-Estèphe and Saint-Julien. The estates located in these villages produce some of the most expensive bottles in the world. The region has also provided all but one of the châteaux included in the official 1855 Bordeaux wine classification (Haut-Brion).
The Médoc vineyards cover about 16,000 hectares, including the various small appellations. Approximately 5500 hectares of vines are classified for the production of AOC/AOP Médoc wines. Wedged between the Atlantic coast and the wide Gironde estuary, the Médoc is in fact a peninsula. It stretches 80 kilometres (50 miles) to the northwest, from the city of Bordeaux to the Pointe de Grave.
How Château Peyredon Lagravette wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of improved horse steak, rice with paprika and merguez or duck legs with honey and orange.
On the nose the red wine of Château Peyredon Lagravette. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, oaky or smoke and sometimes also flavors of earthy, blackberry or blueberry. In the mouth the red wine of Château Peyredon Lagravette. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.
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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.
