The Château Rivière is one of the world's great estates. It offers 7 wines for sale in of Minervois to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Château Rivière wines in Minervois among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Rivière 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 Rivière wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Château Rivière wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal such as recipes of baeckeoffe, trofie ( pasta ) paradiso or sauté of veal with the moulinex cookeo.
On the nose the red wine of Château Rivière. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, earthy or blackberry and sometimes also flavors of non oak, earth or oak. In the mouth the red wine of Château Rivière. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
Minervois is an appellation for distinctive red wines from the western Languedoc region of France. In general, they are softer than those produced in the Corbières, just to the South. The Minervois appellation also covers rosé and white wines. The predominant Grape varieties used in AOC Minervois wines are Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre.
Together with the rarer Lledoner Pelut (or Lladoner Pelut), they must make up at least 60% of the blend. Carignan and Cinsaut are Part of the supporting wines that can represent 40% of the blend. The white wines of the appellation vary considerably in quality and style. They are made from the grape varieties Vermentino, Roussanne, Marsanne, Bourboulenc and Grenache Blanc.
How Château Rivière wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of lasagne with two salmons, goat cheese and bacon quiche or tuna spread.
On the nose the pink wine of Château Rivière. often reveals types of flavors of strawberries, red fruit.
An ancient grape variety from the Garonne valley, long confused with the white mauzac. Today, it is practically no longer present in the vineyard and is therefore on the verge of extinction.
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An interspecific cross, obtained in Russia in 1947, between Severnyj - a relative of Vitis amurensis - and Muscat à petits grains blancs, which is also said to have Muscat fleur d'oranger and Muscat d'Alexandrie. Note that it is resistant to mildew and powdery mildew, and that its wine, often produced as a sweet sparkling wine, is of the muscat type, though less pronounced than that obtained from the usual muscat grape varieties. Unknown in France, it can be found in Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Russia, Hungary, Ukraine and Australia.
