The Château Tour Bel Air of Fronsac of Bordeaux

Château Tour Bel Air - Fronsac
Only one wine is currently referenced in this domain
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.4.
It is ranked in the top 48 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Fronsac in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Tour Bel Air is one of the world's great estates. It offers 1 wines for sale in of Fronsac 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 Fronsac 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 beef bourguignon with tomato, lamb tagine with quince or duck legs with honey.

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 oak.

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

  • 2016With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.30/5

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Fronsac

The wine region of Fronsac is located in the region of Libournais of Bordeaux of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Château Fontaine-Saint-Cric or the Château Haut-Carles produce mainly wines red, pink and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Fronsac are Merlot, Cabernet-Sauvignon and Cabernet franc, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Fronsac often reveals types of flavors of blackberry, dried fruit or black plum and sometimes also flavors of dried herbs, chalk or sweet tobacco.

In the mouth of Fronsac is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 162 estates and châteaux in the of Fronsac, producing 272 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Fronsac 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 Fronsac? 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: Olivette blanche

This variety is of unknown origin and is not related to the black olivette. The flowers of the Olivette blanche are physiologically female, which has led it to be cultivated very often in association with other varieties. Today, it is practically no longer multiplied, although it is registered in the Official Catalogue of vine varieties, list A1.

News about Château Tour Bel Air and wines from the region

St-Emilion 2022 classification promotes Château Figeac to Premier Grand Cru Classé A

St-Emilion’s Wine Council announced its eagerly-anticipated ranking this afternoon, bringing a decade of disputes and court battles to an end. The classification awards Premier Grand Cru Classé A status to just two producers, while it also recognises 12 Premier Grands Crus Classés (B) and 71 Grands Crus Classés. These rankings can cause a winery’s value to soar – they have been likened to the Michelin guide for restaurants – so winemakers across the region awaited the results with bated breath t ...

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 ...

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 ...

The word of the wine: Tanin

A natural compound contained in the skin of the grape, the seed or the woody part of the bunch, the stalk. The maceration of red wines allows the extraction of tannins, which give the texture, the solidity and also the mellowness when the tannins are "ripe". The winemaker seeks above all to extract the tannins from the skin, the ripest and most noble. The tannins of the seed or stalk, which are "greener", especially in average years, give the wine hardness and astringency. The wines of Bordeaux (based on Cabernet and Merlot) are full of tannins, those of Burgundy much less so, with Pinot Noir containing little.