The Château Tour Bel Air of Montagne-Saint-Émilion of Bordeaux

Château Tour Bel Air
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 47 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Montagne-Saint-Émilion in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Tour Bel Air is one of the world's great estates. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Montagne-Saint-Émilion to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Tour Bel Air wines

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

The top red wines of Château Tour Bel Air

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Tour Bel Air

How Château Tour Bel Air wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of oxtail and carrot stew, chicken with merguez and tomatoes or duck confit.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Tour Bel Air

On the nose the red wine of Château Tour Bel Air. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, cassis or red fruit and sometimes also flavors of cigar box, spices or oak. In the mouth the red wine of Château Tour Bel Air. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Tour Bel Air

  • 1998With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.80/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Tour Bel Air.

  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Montagne-Saint-Émilion

The wine region of Montagne-Saint-Émilion is located in the region of Saint-Émilion of Bordeaux of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Château La Fauconnerie or the Château l'Art de Maison Neuve produce mainly wines red. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Montagne-Saint-Émilion are Merlot, Cabernet-Sauvignon and Cabernet franc, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Montagne-Saint-Émilion often reveals types of flavors of cherry, bramble or cinnamon and sometimes also flavors of mint, stone or raisin.

In the mouth of Montagne-Saint-Émilion is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 351 estates and châteaux in the of Montagne-Saint-Émilion, producing 544 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Montagne-Saint-Émilion go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Tour Bel Air

Planning a wine route in the of Montagne-Saint-Émilion? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Tour Bel Air.

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.

News about Château Tour Bel Air and wines from the region

Decanter World Wine Awards 2022: Results announced

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Stephen Brook: ‘It is astonishing how rapidly changes can take place in the Bordeaux region’

My book The Complete Bordeaux, which has been revised every five years, is soon to be published in its fourth edition. This may seem like excessive haste, given the scope of the book, but it is astonishing how rapidly changes can take place in the region. Burgundy, in contrast, is relatively stable, since most properties are family-owned and tend to stay that way. But not so in Bordeaux, where there are ample opportunities for newcomers to acquire established properties, as they have been doing ...

Bordeaux wine sales to US see ‘spectacular recovery’

Bordeaux wine sales to the US reached a new record in 2021, jumping 67% to €349m ($390m), the Bordeaux wine council (CIVB) announced this week. A freeze on additional import tariffs and buyers’ thirst for highly-rated recent vintages helped Bordeaux to a ‘spectacular recovery’ in terms of shipments to the US, it said. Exports rose by 24% in volume last year to 247,000 hectolitres, equivalent to 33 million bottles. While reds dominate, the US has also become the biggest market for Bordeaux white ...

The word of the wine: Grand cru classé

In the Bordeaux region, this refers to certain châteaux in the Médoc and also in Saint-Émilion which are classified.