Château SimonePalette Blanc
White wine
This wine is composed of 100% of the grape variety Muscat Blanc.
This wine generally goes well with poultry, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish.
The Palette Blanc of the Château Simone is in the top 40 of wines of Palette.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Palette Blanc of Château Simone in the region of Provence often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, earth or nutty and sometimes also flavors of honey, melon or cedar.
Food and wine pairings with Palette Blanc
Pairings that work perfectly with Palette Blanc
Original food and wine pairings with Palette Blanc
The Palette Blanc of Château Simone matches generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or spicy food such as recipes of norwegian salmon parmentier, brasucade of mussels from languedoc or chakchouka.
Discover the grape variety: Clairette
Clairette rosé is a grape variety that originated in France (Provence). It produces a variety of grape used for wine making. However, it can also be found on our tables! Note that this grape variety can also be used for the elaboration of eaux de vie. This variety of vine is characterized by medium to large bunches of grapes of medium size. Clairette rosé can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhône Valley, Provence & Corsica, Languedoc & Roussillon, Loire Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Armagnac.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Palette Blanc from Château Simone are 1998, 2017, 2011, 2000 and 2016.
Informations about the Château Simone
The Château Simone is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 6 wines for sale in the of Palette to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Palette
Palette is a very small appellation in the Provence wine region, located in the far southeast of France. Created in 1948, the appellation covers red, white and rosé wines produced near Aix-en-Provence, a town just North of Marseille. Production is dominated by a single producer, Château Simone, which owns about half of the vineyards covered by the appellation. The rest of the production comes from Château Cremade, Château Henri Bonnaud, Château de Meyreuil and La Badiane.
The wine region of Provence
Provence is a wine region in the far southeast of France, best known for the quality (and quantity) of its rosé wines and for its Warm, mild Climate. The modernization that is taking place in many of the traditional wine regions of southern France has not yet taken place to the same extent in Provence, but there are Clear signs of change. The region's Grape varieties, in particular, have come under scrutiny in recent decades. Traditional varieties such as Carignan, Barbaroux (Barbarossa from Sardinia) and Calitor are being replaced by more commercially viable varieties such as Grenache, Syrah and even Cabernet Sauvignon.
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