The Château Tour du Barrail of Bordeaux

Château Tour du Barrail
The winery offers 4 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.3.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Bordeaux.
It is located in Bordeaux

The Château Tour du Barrail is one of the best wineries to follow in Bordeaux.. It offers 4 wines for sale in of Bordeaux to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Tour du Barrail wines

Looking for the best Château Tour du Barrail wines in Bordeaux among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Tour du Barrail 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 du Barrail wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château Tour du Barrail

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Tour du Barrail

How Château Tour du Barrail wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of pork tongue with bacon and onions, delicious veal stew or aiguillettes of duck with auvergne blue cheese.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Tour du Barrail

In the mouth the red wine of Château Tour du Barrail. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Tour du Barrail

  • 2012With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2011With an average score of 2.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Tour du Barrail.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Bordeaux

Bordeaux, in southwestern France, is one of the most famous, prestigious and prolific wine regions in the world. The majority of Bordeaux wines (nearly 90% of the production Volume) are the Dry, medium and Full-bodied red Bordeaux blends for which it is famous. The finest (and most expensive) are the wines of the great châteaux of Haut-Médoc and the right bank appellations of Saint-Émilion and Pomerol. The former focuses (at the highest level) on Cabernet Sauvignon, the latter on Merlot.

The legendary reds are complemented by high-quality white wines made from Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc. These range from dry whites that challenge the best of Burgundy (Pessac-Léognan is particularly renowned) to the Sweet, botrytised nectars of Sauternes. Although Bordeaux is most famous for its wines produced in specific districts or communes, many of its wines fall under other, broader appellations. These include AOC Bordeaux, Bordeaux Supérieur and Crémant de Bordeaux.

The Bordeaux Red appellation represents more than a third of the total production. The official Bordeaux wine region extends 130 kilometres inland from the Atlantic coast. 111,000 hectares of vineyards were registered in 2018, a figure that has remained largely constant over the previous decade. However, the number of winegrowers has consolidated; in 2018 there were around 6,000, compared to 9,000 a decade earlier.

The top white wines of Château Tour du Barrail

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Château Tour du Barrail

How Château Tour du Barrail wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of reblochon tartiflette, quiche with leeks and fresh salmon from flo or quiche with bacon and gruyère cheese.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Château Tour du Barrail.

  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). 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 to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Tour du Barrail

Planning a wine route in the of Bordeaux? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Tour du Barrail.

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 du Barrail and wines from the region

Fires near Bordeaux: Liber Pater vineyard evacuated

Police ordered the evacuation of more local residents in the Landiras area yesterday (Monday 18 July), with Liber Pater’s vineyard in Graves also evacuated as firefighters continued to try to contain a large forest fire that has been burning for the past week. A ‘fog’ of fire smoke behind Liber Pater vines on Tuesday morning (19 July), said owner Loïc Pasquet, who was briefly able to return to the site. Smoke hasn’t been a problem so far, he said. Credit: Loïc Pasquet. ‘The pol ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘Drinking cheap wine need not be a cheap experience’

Annual domestic gas bills in the UK threaten to rival, in craziness, the price of a box of Bordeaux first growths. Those energy costs have sent the price of almost everything else ripping up after them. Is there, um, anything to be said for cheap wine? There is. First, though, we must sip the bitter harvest of alcohol taxes. These are high in the UK and higher still in Scandinavia, Australia, New Zealand and India; they tend to vary by state in the US and by province in Canada, and in general th ...

Major Bordeaux merchant Maison Joanne gets new shareholders

Several private investors have taken shareholdings in Maison Joanne, one of the biggest Bordeaux négociant firms and leading distributor of grands crus to wine merchants around the world. Company president Pierre Antoine Castéja announced the changes in a letter to business partners and friends on the eve of the Bordeaux 2021 en primeur tasting week. It marks a new chapter for the family business, which celebrates its 160th anniversary this year and has around 5 million bottles of fine wine stor ...

The word of the wine: Frank

Said of a wine that is open and delivers itself immediately, and whose clarity excludes any defect.