The Château Villerambert of Minervois of Languedoc-Roussillon

Château Villerambert - Cuvée Prestige Minervois
The winery offers 4 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
This estate is part of the Vignobles Bonfils.
It is ranked in the top 61 of the estates of Languedoc-Roussillon.
It is located in Minervois in the region of Languedoc-Roussillon

The Château Villerambert is one of the world's great estates. It offers 4 wines for sale in of Minervois to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Villerambert wines

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

The top red wines of Château Villerambert

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Villerambert

How Château Villerambert wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal such as recipes of beef tongue in hot pickle sauce, saffron pasta with prawns or curried veal roulades.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Villerambert

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

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Villerambert

  • 2013With an average score of 3.81/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.41/5

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

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Grenache

Discovering the wine region of Minervois

Minervois is an appellation for distinctive red wines from the western Languedoc region of France. In general, they are softer than those produced in the Corbières, just to the South. The Minervois appellation also covers rosé and white wines. The predominant Grape varieties used in AOC Minervois wines are Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre.

Together with the rarer Lledoner Pelut (or Lladoner Pelut), they must make up at least 60% of the blend. Carignan and Cinsaut are Part of the supporting wines that can represent 40% of the blend. The white wines of the appellation vary considerably in quality and style. They are made from the grape varieties Vermentino, Roussanne, Marsanne, Bourboulenc and Grenache Blanc.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Villerambert

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

Discover the grape variety: Barras

It most certainly originates from the Tarn region, a variety that has completely disappeared from the vineyard and is therefore on the way out. It was very difficult to find documentation concerning it, especially since there is a slight confusion with malpé. D.N.A. analyses processed by a specific software (U.M.R.-A.G.A.P. Montpellier) indicate that malpé is the result of a cross between cahours and fer.

News about Château Villerambert and wines from the region

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 ...

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 ...

Top DWWA award-winning wines on show at Decanter Fine Wine Encounter NYC

At the 2021 Decanter World Wine Awards, the world’s largest wine competition saw its biggest year to date, with 18,094 wines tasted from 56 countries. Over 15 consecutive days in June 2021, almost 170 expert wine judges, including 44 Masters of Wine and 11 Master Sommeliers, awarded 50 Best in Show, 179 Platinum, 635 Gold, 5,607 Silver and 8,332 Bronze medals. Join Decanter at our Fine Wine Encounter NYC this June, where you will have the opportunity to sample 23 of these top awarded Gold, Plati ...

The word of the wine: Disgorging (champagne)

This is the evacuation of the deposit formed by the yeasts during the second fermentation in the bottle, by opening the bottle. The missing volume is completed with the liqueur de dosage - a mixture of wine and cane sugar - before the final cork is placed. For some years now, some producers have been replacing this sugar with rectified concentrated musts (concentrated grape juice) which give excellent results. A too recent dosage (less than three months) harms the gustatory harmony of the champagne.