The Château Vieux Planty of Bordeaux

Château Vieux Planty - Blaye - Côtes de Bordeaux
The winery offers 16 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.4.
It is ranked in the top 6636 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Bordeaux

The Château Vieux Planty is one of the best wineries to follow in Bordeaux.. It offers 16 wines for sale in of Bordeaux to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Vieux Planty wines

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

The top red wines of Château Vieux Planty

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Vieux Planty

How Château Vieux Planty wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of fillet of beef in a foie gras and truffle crust, osso buco or rabbit with beer.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Vieux Planty

On the nose the red wine of Château Vieux Planty. often reveals types of flavors of oaky, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Château Vieux Planty. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Vieux Planty

  • 2015With an average score of 3.49/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.33/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.10/5

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

  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc

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 pink wines of Château Vieux Planty

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Château Vieux Planty

How Château Vieux Planty wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of roast pork with pineapple or sarthe pot.

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

  • Merlot

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.

The top white wines of Château Vieux Planty

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Château Vieux Planty

How Château Vieux Planty wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of andouillette with mustard sauce, quiche lorraine or kefta.

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

  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Sauvignon Gris

The word of the wine: Basic wine

Dry, still wine intended for the production of sparkling wines (champagne, crémants, etc.). The basic wines undergo a second fermentation in the bottle for the production of carbon dioxide, and therefore of bubbles.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Vieux Planty

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 Vieux Planty.

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.

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The word of the wine: Basic wine

Dry, still wine intended for the production of sparkling wines (champagne, crémants, etc.). The basic wines undergo a second fermentation in the bottle for the production of carbon dioxide, and therefore of bubbles.