The Château Vieux-Potana of Montagne-Saint-Émilion of Bordeaux

Château Vieux-Potana - Montagne Saint-Émilion
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 123 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Montagne-Saint-Émilion in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Vieux-Potana is one of the best wineries to follow in Montagne-Saint-Émilion.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Montagne-Saint-Émilion to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Vieux-Potana wines

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

The top red wines of Château Vieux-Potana

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Vieux-Potana

How Château Vieux-Potana wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of puchero, leg of lamb with baked potatoes or duck baeckeoffe with christmas spices and dried fruits.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Vieux-Potana

  • 2014With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2007With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.20/5

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Montagne-Saint-Émilion

The wine region of Montagne-Saint-Émilion is located in the region of Saint-Émilion of Bordeaux of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Château La Fauconnerie or the Château l'Art de Maison Neuve produce mainly wines red. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Montagne-Saint-Émilion are Merlot, Cabernet-Sauvignon and Cabernet franc, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Montagne-Saint-Émilion often reveals types of flavors of cherry, bramble or cinnamon and sometimes also flavors of mint, stone or raisin.

In the mouth of Montagne-Saint-Émilion is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 351 estates and châteaux in the of Montagne-Saint-Émilion, producing 544 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Montagne-Saint-Émilion go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison).

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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 Vieux-Potana and wines from the region

‘Space vines’ trial on-track, says team who put Petrus in orbit

Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon ‘space vines’ that were fired into orbit alongside bottles of Petrus 2000 have been nurtured alongside their ‘daughter’ plants in western France, said researchers in an update on the project. ‘The first “space grapes” are now visible on the canes just a few months after the replanting phase that occurred in February 2022,’ said Space Cargo Unlimited, the start-up leading the project. A total of 320 vine canes spent more than a year on the Int ...

Château Les Carmes Haut-Brion launches new ‘Elements’ collection

The ambitious project named ‘Elements’ sees the launch of 1,000 meticulously handcrafted wooden presentation boxes each containing a different number and format of the estate’s wines. Taking inspiration from the shape of the cellars, designed by Philippe Starck and Luc Arsène-Henry and completed in 2016, these unique showcases house either two double magnums, three magnums or six bottles that have been specially preserved in the estate’s cellars – a detail marked by a gol ...

Join us for our first Decanter Taste With The Experts event

For the first time ever, Decanter is offering readers and wine lovers alike the chance to see behind the scenes of our renowned panel tastings and experience first hand what it means to taste like an expert. Decanter’s panel tastings are one of the most rigorous exercises in blind tasting, where a panel of three experts taste and score up to 100 wines a day, based on criteria set by the Decanter editorial team. We’re delighted to announced that this autumn will see the start of our n ...

The word of the wine: Fade in

Said of a wine whose different elements are perceived in the mouth in a pleasant and harmonious way.