Château RaspideCuvée Péchon Sauternes
Sweet wine
In the mouth this sweet wine is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.
This wine generally goes well with fruity desserts and blue cheese.
Taste structure of the Cuvée Péchon Sauternes from the Château Raspide
Light | Bold | |
Dry | Sweet | |
Soft | Acidic |
In the mouth the Cuvée Péchon Sauternes of Château Raspide in the region of Bordeaux is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Cuvée Péchon Sauternes of Château Raspide in the region of Bordeaux often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, apples or honey and sometimes also flavors of earth, tree fruit or tropical fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Cuvée Péchon Sauternes
Pairings that work perfectly with Cuvée Péchon Sauternes
Original food and wine pairings with Cuvée Péchon Sauternes
The Cuvée Péchon Sauternes of Château Raspide matches generally quite well with dishes of fruity desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of grandma's cherry clafoutis or zucchini soup with blue cheese.
Details and technical informations about Château Raspide's Cuvée Péchon Sauternes.
Discover the grape variety: Humagne rouge
It is a variety of Valle d'Aosta origin and, like Arvine, it is also found in Italy. In the past, it was cultivated in Savoy and registered in the official catalogue of wine grape varieties, list B, under the name of red humagne, but it is not related to white humagne. According to recent genetic analyses, the Swiss variety Cornalin du Valais is its father and Rèze its grandmother. It is also the grandson of the petit rouge d' Aoste.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Cuvée Péchon Sauternes from Château Raspide are 2010, 2011, 2007
Informations about the Château Raspide
The Château Raspide is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 3 wines for sale in the of Sauternes to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Sauternes
Sauternes, 65 km South of Bordeaux, is a Village renowned for its high quality Sweet wines. Although some wineries produce Dry wines, they sell them under other appellations than Sauternes, which is specific to sweet wines. The village is surrounded on all sides by vineyards, the best of which produce some of the most prestigious, long-lasting and expensive dessert wines in the world. A half bottle of premium, aged Sauternes from a good Vintage can sell for over $1,000.
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 word of the wine: Drawing (liqueur de)
In champagne and sparkling wines of traditional method, addition to the wine, at the time of bottling (tirage) of sugars and yeasts dissolved in wine. These components will provoke the second fermentation in the bottle leading to the formation of carbon dioxide bubbles.
