The Château Tourmentine of Guyenne of South West

Château Tourmentine
The winery offers 17 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 580 of the estates of South West.
It is located in Guyenne in the region of South West
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The Château Tourmentine is one of the best wineries to follow in Guyenne.. It offers 17 wines for sale in of Guyenne to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Tourmentine wines

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

The top pink wines of Château Tourmentine

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Château Tourmentine

How Château Tourmentine wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, appetizers and snacks or lean fish such as recipes of lamb with okra sauce, brioche shuttles or saffron monkfish.

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Château Tourmentine.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon

Discovering the wine region of Guyenne

45 kilometres east of Bordeaux, Blasimon is perched on a hillside overlooking the Gamage, a tributary of the Dordogne. Its hilly sites and its calm make it an ideal place to relax. A Village of medieval origin, its origin reflects the traditional organization of the bastides. The city conceals one of the Romanesque jewels of the Gironde, the Benedictine abbey of the X-XIII th centuries.

Also worth seeing are the medieval mills of Labarthe and Borie, the remains of the feudal Castle of Blasimon, the manor house of Pousse-Bourre, the church of Piis and the ruins of the Bonne Nouvelle chapel. The Cave Coopérative was created in 1935 and brings together winegrowers who have owned properties that have been handed down for several generations. It has a production capacity of 56,000 hectolitres of red wines with the "Bordeaux" appellation and white wines with the "Bordeaux" and "Entre-deux-Mers" appellations. Throughout the year, the Vine is surrounded by intensive care, the culture is always done according to very precise rules.

The top red wines of Château Tourmentine

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Tourmentine

How Château Tourmentine wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry such as recipes of authentic bolognese sauce (ragù di carne), shoulder of lamb boulangère or chicken risotto with curry.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Tourmentine

  • 2011With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.50/5

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

  • Malbec
  • Merlot

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.

The top white wines of Château Tourmentine

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Château Tourmentine

How Château Tourmentine wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or vegetarian such as recipes of lemon and tuna risotto, crab matoutou or ham and comté quiche.

The best vintages in the white wines of Château Tourmentine

  • 2014With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Château Tourmentine.

  • Sauvignon Blanc

The word of the wine: Garde (wine of)

Refers to a wine showing good ageing potential.

The top sweet wines of Château Tourmentine

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Château Tourmentine

How Château Tourmentine wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or sweet desserts such as recipes of baeckeoffe with fish, monkfish in foil or gaufress and light.

Organoleptic analysis of sweet wines of Château Tourmentine

On the nose the sweet wine of Château Tourmentine. often reveals types of flavors of cream, honey or earth and sometimes also flavors of microbio.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Château Tourmentine

  • 2012With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Château Tourmentine.

  • Sémillon

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon blanc

Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Tourmentine

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

Discover the grape variety: Malbec

Malbec, a high-yielding red grape variety, produces tannic and colourful wines. It is produced in different wine-growing regions and changes its name according to the grape variety. Called Auxerrois in Cahors, Malbec in Bordeaux, it is also known as Côt. 6,000 hectares of the Malbec grape are grown in France (in decline since the 1950s). Malbec is also very successful in Argentina. The country has become the world's leading producer of Malbec and offers wines with great potential.

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