The Château Saint Benoit of Saint-Émilion of Bordeaux

Château Saint Benoit - Château Bois de Cadet Lussac-Saint-Émilion
The winery offers 4 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is ranked in the top 1326 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Saint-Émilion in the region of Bordeaux
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The Château Saint Benoit is one of the best wineries to follow in Saint-Émilion.. It offers 4 wines for sale in of Saint-Émilion to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Saint Benoit wines

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

The top red wines of Château Saint Benoit

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Saint Benoit

How Château Saint Benoit wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of braciola (southern italy), mathieu's lamb tagine or duck with orange.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Saint Benoit

In the mouth the red wine of Château Saint Benoit. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Saint Benoit

  • 2011With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2007With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.43/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.40/5

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

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

Discovering the wine region of Saint-Émilion

The wine region of Saint-Émilion is located in the region of Libournais of Bordeaux of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Baron Philippe de Rothschild or the Château Le Chatelet produce mainly wines red and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Saint-Émilion are Merlot, Cabernet franc and Cabernet-Sauvignon, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Saint-Émilion often reveals types of flavors of black fruits, savory or cocoa and sometimes also flavors of bramble, raisin or sour cherry.

In the mouth of Saint-Émilion is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 645 estates and châteaux in the of Saint-Émilion, producing 833 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Saint-Émilion go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison).

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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 Saint Benoit and wines from the region

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

Best in Show: The top 50 wines of DWWA 2022

The 0.27% of entries awarded Best in Show at this year’s Decanter World Wine Awards reflect the inspiring world of wine and quest for quality among winemakers globally, with 50 wines expressing the best of their categories. An all-time record for wines tasted at the world’s largest wine competition, it’s quite possible that Decanter World Wine Awards 2022 marks the largest-ever wine competition to be held in history. And of the record-breaking 18,244 wines tasted, just 50 were ...

Willamette Valley grape crop is dealt a frosty blow

On 11 April, 2022, cold temperatures, snow and frost arrived in the Willamette Valley. The pre-dawn hours of 15 April were particularly devastating, with numerous vineyards registering overnight lows of minus three to zero degrees Celsius. Gregory Jones, a research climatologist and CEO of Abacela Winery in Roseburg, Oregon, refers to the event as ‘February in April’ in his weather and climate newsletter. The frost’s timing was disastrous. Thanks to a warmer, drier Oregon winter, Chardonnay and ...

The word of the wine: Fulfilled

Said of a wine at its peak that is balanced and offers all its aromatic potential.

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