The Winery Chezatte of Loire Valley

Winery Chezatte - Chante-Merle
The winery offers 6 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 938 of the estates of Loire Valley.
It is located in Loire Valley
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The Winery Chezatte is one of the best wineries to follow in Vallée de la Loire.. It offers 6 wines for sale in of Loire Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Chezatte wines

Looking for the best Winery Chezatte wines in Loire Valley among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Chezatte 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 Winery Chezatte wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Chezatte

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Chezatte

How Winery Chezatte wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, game (deer, venison) or poultry such as recipes of osso buco, alsatian wine pie or chicken tagine with olives and potatoes.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Chezatte

On the nose the red wine of Winery Chezatte. often reveals types of flavors of apples, plum or pear and sometimes also flavors of earth, tree fruit or red fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Chezatte. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Chezatte

  • 2016With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Chezatte.

  • Pinot Noir

Discovering the wine region of Loire Valley

The Loire Valley is a key wine region in western France. It follows the course of the Loire River on its Long journey through the heart of France, from the inland hills of the Auvergne to the plains of the French Atlantic coast near Nantes (Muscadet country). Important in terms of quantity and quality, the region produces large quantities (about 4 million h/l each year) of everyday wines, as well as some of France's greatest wines. Diversity is another of the region's major assets; the styles of wine produced here range from the light, tangy Muscadet to the Sweet, honeyed Bonnezeaux, the Sparkling whites of Vouvray and the juicy, Tannic reds of Chinon and Saumur.

It's quite telling that this brief overview of the region's wines doesn't even mention the Loire Valley's two most famous wines - Sancerre and Pouilly-Fume. White wines are clearly the strong point of the Loire Valley and represent the vast majority of production. A significant proportion of these are produced under PGI appellations, most commonly the IGP Loire (formerly Vin de Pays du Jardin de la France), which covers the whole region. The main white Grape varieties used for the production of white wines in the Loire Valley are Sauvignon Blanc, Chenin Blanc, Melon de Bourgogne and, more popular than the traditional, Chardonnay.

The top white wines of Winery Chezatte

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Chezatte

How Winery Chezatte wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, shellfish or spicy food such as recipes of tartiflette, tagliatelle with seafood and saffron cream or coral lentil dahl.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Chezatte

On the nose the white wine of Winery Chezatte. often reveals types of flavors of grapefruit, pear or floral and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, spices or oak. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Chezatte. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Chezatte

  • 2017With an average score of 4.11/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.86/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.70/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Chezatte.

  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Pinot noir is an important red grape variety in Burgundy and Champagne, and its reputation is well known! Great wines such as the Domaine de la Romanée Conti elaborate their wines from this famous grape variety, and make it a great variety. When properly vinified, pinot noit produces red wines of great finesse, with a wide range of aromas depending on its advancement (fruit, undergrowth, leather). it is also the only red grape variety authorized in Alsace. Pinot Noir is not easily cultivated beyond our borders, although it has enjoyed some success in Oregon, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

The top pink wines of Winery Chezatte

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Chezatte

How Winery Chezatte wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of porcini sauce, sausages with kale or rabbit in white wine (casserole).

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Winery Chezatte

On the nose the pink wine of Winery Chezatte. often reveals types of flavors of minerality, strawberries or lemon and sometimes also flavors of melon, earth or tree fruit.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Chezatte

  • 2016With an average score of 4.00/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Chezatte.

  • Pinot Noir

The word of the wine: Aging on lees

Maturing on the lees enhances the stability, aromatic complexity and texture of white wines, which gain in body and volume. This phenomenon is induced by autolysis, the process of self-degradation of the lees.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Chezatte

Planning a wine route in the of Loire Valley? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Chezatte.

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon blanc

Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.

News about Winery Chezatte 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 ...

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The word of the wine: Aging on lees

Maturing on the lees enhances the stability, aromatic complexity and texture of white wines, which gain in body and volume. This phenomenon is induced by autolysis, the process of self-degradation of the lees.