The Château Trotte Vieille of Saint-Émilion Grand Cru of Bordeaux

Château Trotte Vieille - La Vieille Dame de Trotte Vieille Saint-Émilion Grand Cru
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.2.
This estate is part of the Borie-Manoux.
It is ranked in the top 46 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Saint-Émilion Grand Cru in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Trotte Vieille is one of the world's great estates. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Saint-Émilion Grand Cru to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Trotte Vieille wines

Looking for the best Château Trotte Vieille wines in Saint-Émilion Grand Cru among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Trotte Vieille 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 Trotte Vieille wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château Trotte Vieille

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Trotte Vieille

How Château Trotte Vieille wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of couscous without couscous maker, harira algerian soup or rabbit with beer and mustard.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Trotte Vieille

On the nose the red wine of Château Trotte Vieille. often reveals types of flavors of cream, vegetal or cassis and sometimes also flavors of stone, mint or cinnamon. In the mouth the red wine of Château Trotte Vieille. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Trotte Vieille

  • 1999With an average score of 4.50/5
  • 1982With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 1995With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2000With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2005With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 1989With an average score of 4.30/5

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot
  • Malbec
  • Petit Verdot

Discovering the wine region of Saint-Émilion Grand Cru

The wine region of Saint-Émilion Grand Cru is located in the region of Saint-Émilion of Bordeaux of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Château Cheval Blanc or the Château Ausone produce mainly wines red. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Saint-Émilion Grand Cru are Merlot, Cabernet franc and Cabernet-Sauvignon, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Saint-Émilion Grand Cru often reveals types of flavors of cherry, dill or tropical fruit and sometimes also flavors of aniseed, hay or honey.

In the mouth of Saint-Émilion Grand Cru is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 849 estates and châteaux in the of Saint-Émilion Grand Cru, producing 1323 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Saint-Émilion Grand Cru go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Trotte Vieille

Planning a wine route in the of Saint-Émilion Grand Cru? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Trotte Vieille.

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.

News about Château Trotte Vieille 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 ...

Best in Show: The top 50 wines of DWWA 2022

The 0.27% of entries awarded Best in Show at this year’s Decanter World Wine Awards reflect the inspiring world of wine and quest for quality among winemakers globally, with 50 wines expressing the best of their categories. An all-time record for wines tasted at the world’s largest wine competition, it’s quite possible that Decanter World Wine Awards 2022 marks the largest-ever wine competition to be held in history. And of the record-breaking 18,244 wines tasted, just 50 were ...

The word of the wine: Maturing (champagne)

After riddling, the bottles are stored on "point", upside down, with the neck of one bottle in the bottom of the other. The duration of this maturation is very important: in contact with the dead yeasts, the wine takes on subtle aromas and gains in roundness and fatness. A brut without year must remain at least 15 months in the cellar after bottling, a vintage 36 months.