The Château Richard of Guyenne of South West

Château Richard
The winery offers 16 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 311 of the estates of South West.
It is located in Guyenne in the region of South West

The Château Richard is one of the best wineries to follow in Guyenne.. It offers 16 wines for sale in of Guyenne to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Richard wines

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

The top white wines of Château Richard

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Château Richard

How Château Richard wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or sweet desserts such as recipes of whole salmon in aromatic broth, scallops with saffron or gaufress and light.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Château Richard

On the nose the white wine of Château Richard. often reveals types of flavors of honey, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak.

The best vintages in the white wines of Château Richard

  • 2009With an average score of 4.50/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.70/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Château Richard.

  • Sémillon
  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Muscadelle

Discovering the wine region of Guyenne

45 kilometres east of Bordeaux, Blasimon is perched on a hillside overlooking the Gamage, a tributary of the Dordogne. Its hilly sites and its calm make it an ideal place to relax. A Village of medieval origin, its origin reflects the traditional organization of the bastides. The city conceals one of the Romanesque jewels of the Gironde, the Benedictine abbey of the X-XIII th centuries.

Also worth seeing are the medieval mills of Labarthe and Borie, the remains of the feudal Castle of Blasimon, the manor house of Pousse-Bourre, the church of Piis and the ruins of the Bonne Nouvelle chapel. The Cave Coopérative was created in 1935 and brings together winegrowers who have owned properties that have been handed down for several generations. It has a production capacity of 56,000 hectolitres of red wines with the "Bordeaux" appellation and white wines with the "Bordeaux" and "Entre-deux-Mers" appellations. Throughout the year, the Vine is surrounded by intensive care, the culture is always done according to very precise rules.

The top sweet wines of Château Richard

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Château Richard

How Château Richard wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or sweet desserts such as recipes of tuna, pepper and tomato quiche, monkfish in foil or ultra-fast and yet so light....

Organoleptic analysis of sweet wines of Château Richard

On the nose the sweet wine of Château Richard. often reveals types of flavors of honey, earth or citrus fruit.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Château Richard

  • 2009With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2007With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.90/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Château Richard.

  • Sémillon
  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Muscadelle

Discover the grape variety: Muscadelle

Muscadelle white is a grape variety that originated in France (Bergerac). 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 bunches of medium size, and grapes of medium caliber. Muscadelle white can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Armagnac, Provence & Corsica, Rhone valley, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Languedoc & Roussillon.

The top red wines of Château Richard

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Richard

How Château Richard wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of navarin of the sea da gigi, grandma's chicken casserole or garbure with duck confit.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Richard

On the nose the red wine of Château Richard. often reveals types of flavors of earth.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Richard

  • 2013With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.00/5

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

  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot

The word of the wine: Bergeron

See roussanne.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Richard

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

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon blanc

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.

News about Château Richard and wines from the region

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The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C  in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...

The word of the wine: Bergeron

See roussanne.