The Château Ragon Bel Air of Bordeaux

Château Ragon Bel Air
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Bordeaux.
It is located in Bordeaux

The Château Ragon Bel Air is one of the best wineries to follow in Bordeaux.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Bordeaux to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Ragon Bel Air wines

Looking for the best Château Ragon Bel Air wines in Bordeaux among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Ragon Bel Air 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 Ragon Bel Air wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château Ragon Bel Air

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Ragon Bel Air

How Château Ragon Bel Air wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of quick beef and cheese yakitori, stuffed quails or duck legs with confit potatoes.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Ragon Bel Air

On the nose the red wine of Château Ragon Bel Air. often reveals types of flavors of pepper, prune or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, red fruit or black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Château Ragon Bel Air. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Ragon Bel Air

  • 2017With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.10/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.00/5
  • 2016With an average score of 2.80/5
  • 2014With an average score of 2.80/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Ragon Bel Air.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Petit Verdot
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Malbec

Discovering the wine region of Bordeaux

Bordeaux, in southwestern France, is one of the most famous, prestigious and prolific wine regions in the world. The majority of Bordeaux wines (nearly 90% of the production Volume) are the Dry, medium and Full-bodied red Bordeaux blends for which it is famous. The finest (and most expensive) are the wines of the great châteaux of Haut-Médoc and the right bank appellations of Saint-Émilion and Pomerol. The former focuses (at the highest level) on Cabernet Sauvignon, the latter on Merlot.

The legendary reds are complemented by high-quality white wines made from Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc. These range from dry whites that challenge the best of Burgundy (Pessac-Léognan is particularly renowned) to the Sweet, botrytised nectars of Sauternes. Although Bordeaux is most famous for its wines produced in specific districts or communes, many of its wines fall under other, broader appellations. These include AOC Bordeaux, Bordeaux Supérieur and Crémant de Bordeaux.

The Bordeaux Red appellation represents more than a third of the total production. The official Bordeaux wine region extends 130 kilometres inland from the Atlantic coast. 111,000 hectares of vineyards were registered in 2018, a figure that has remained largely constant over the previous decade. However, the number of winegrowers has consolidated; in 2018 there were around 6,000, compared to 9,000 a decade earlier.

The top white wines of Château Ragon Bel Air

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Château Ragon Bel Air

How Château Ragon Bel Air wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of beef carrots, quiche without pastry, courgette and blue cheese or tuna nuggets.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Château Ragon Bel Air.

  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Sémillon

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.

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Discover the grape variety: Petit Verdot

Petit Verdot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (southwest). 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. Petit Verdot noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Armagnac.

News about Château Ragon Bel Air and wines from the region

Fraud case alleges Spanish wine passed off as French

Several of those suspected of involvement in the alleged fraud scheme to pass Spanish wine off as French went before Bordeaux’s tribunal correctionnel criminal court on 27 October. Authorities have estimated that 34,587 hectolitres of wine was involved, which is equivalent to around 4.6 million bottles, according to French news publication France Bleu. The wine in question was allegedly sourced in Spain and brought across the border in more than 130 tanker trucks, before being eventually bottled ...

Americans swindled in $13m wine investment scam

The authorities have charged Casey Alexander, who lives in the UK, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. He is accused of running three companies – Windsor Jones, Charles Winn and Vintage Whisky Casks – which obtained the phone numbers of elderly Americans and cold-called them. Investigators said the companies used ‘aggressive and deceptive tactics’ to convince people to wire them money, promising them huge returns. Windsor Jones’ website, which lists the company’s address as Wilmington, D ...

Prices rising for top California wines

Prices have been rising on California fine wines, and especially Screaming Eagle, said Liv-ex this week. Its California 50 index, which tracks the price performance of Screaming Eagle, Harlan Estate, Dominus, Opus One and Ridge Monte Bello, has increased by around 32% in the last year. ‘High quality and heightened demand have led to rising prices,’ said Liv-ex, a global marketplace for the trade. Its figures provide more evidence of a strong 12 months for the fine wine market in general, and fol ...

The word of the wine: Flower

Wine disease resulting in a whitish haze and a vented taste.