The Château Vernous of Médoc of Bordeaux

Château Vernous - Clairinette Bordeaux Clairet
The winery offers 16 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
This estate is part of the Pierre Jean Larraqué.
It is ranked in the top 428 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Médoc in the region of Bordeaux
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The Château Vernous is one of the best wineries to follow in Médoc.. It offers 16 wines for sale in of Médoc to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Vernous wines

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

The top pink wines of Château Vernous

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Château Vernous

How Château Vernous wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of basque lasagne, quiche with bacon and gruyère cheese or zakouski: russian appetizer.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Château Vernous

  • 2019With an average score of 3.90/5

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

  • Clairette
  • Grenache
  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc

Discovering the wine region of Médoc

Bordeaux's Médoc is an area of coastal lagoons, sand dunes and pine forests located on the 45th parallel. It is also a global wine powerhouse, and home to four of the world's most prestigious wine villages: Pauillac, Margaux, Saint-Estèphe and Saint-Julien. The estates located in these villages produce some of the most expensive bottles in the world. The region has also provided all but one of the châteaux included in the official 1855 Bordeaux wine classification (Haut-Brion).

The Médoc vineyards cover about 16,000 hectares, including the various small appellations. Approximately 5500 hectares of vines are classified for the production of AOC/AOP Médoc wines. Wedged between the Atlantic coast and the wide Gironde estuary, the Médoc is in fact a peninsula. It stretches 80 kilometres (50 miles) to the northwest, from the city of Bordeaux to the Pointe de Grave.

The top red wines of Château Vernous

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Vernous

How Château Vernous wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of autumn leaves, veal breast with new vegetables or roast duck breast stuffed with foie gras confit.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Vernous

On the nose the red wine of Château Vernous. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, dark fruit or red fruit and sometimes also flavors of spices, oak or microbio. In the mouth the red wine of Château Vernous. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Vernous

  • 2007With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2005With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.79/5

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

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

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon

Sauvignon Gris is a grape variety that originated in France (South-West). 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 bunches and small grapes. Sauvignon Gris can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Burgundy, Jura, Beaujolais, Armagnac, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey.

The top white wines of Château Vernous

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Château Vernous

How Château Vernous wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of ham and cheese omelette, gratin dauphinois with smoked salmon or quiche without eggs.

The best vintages in the white wines of Château Vernous

  • 2019With an average score of 3.47/5

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

  • Chardonnay
  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Sémillon

The word of the wine: Castle

A term often used to designate wineries, even if they do not have a real castle.

The top sparkling wines of Château Vernous

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Château Vernous

How Château Vernous wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, poultry or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of garlic shrimp, ham and cheese omelette or roasted pumpkin seeds.

Discover the grape variety: Grenache

Grenache noir is a grape variety that originated in Spain. It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by medium to large bunches, and grapes of medium size. Grenache noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Languedoc & Roussillon, Rhone Valley, Loire Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Vernous

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

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 Vernous and wines from the region

Bordeaux ‘Act for Change’ symposium

The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C  in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...

Château Latour 2014 released for first time

Château Latour 2014 was released this morning (15 March), making it the youngest Latour grand vin on the market and the third to be released since the first growth estate left the Bordeaux en primeur system in 2012. Farr Vintners was selling Latour 2014 at £4,950 per 12-bottle case, with six magnums offered at £4,980. Bordeaux Index was offering the wine in six-bottle cases at £2,475 in bond. Analyst group Wine Lister said the wine had been released at €430 per bottle ex-Bordeaux, up 18% on the ...

Bordeaux 2021 harvest was 20% below 10-year average following spring frosts

The Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux (CIVB) revealed that the Bordeaux 2021 vintage was 20% below the region’s 10-year average. Bud burst came earlier than usual amid very sunny weather in March, and many young buds were then destroyed by severe frosts, which hammered the region in early April. It means that producers will have just 503 million bottles from the 2021 vintage, which is significantly below average. The region’s sweet whites, including Sauternes, suffered the sharpest y ...

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