The Winery Christophe Courtinat of Loire Valley

Winery Christophe Courtinat
The winery offers 9 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 5514 of the estates of Loire Valley.
It is located in Loire Valley

The Winery Christophe Courtinat is one of the best wineries to follow in Vallée de la Loire.. It offers 9 wines for sale in of Loire Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Christophe Courtinat wines

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

The top sparkling wines of Winery Christophe Courtinat

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Christophe Courtinat

How Winery Christophe Courtinat wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of roast veal with mustard cream, roast pork with mustard and honey or grandma melanie's cassoulet.

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery Christophe Courtinat.

  • Chardonnay
  • 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 red wines of Winery Christophe Courtinat

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Christophe Courtinat

How Winery Christophe Courtinat wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or pork such as recipes of kig ar farz breton, osso buco with mushrooms or pumpkin and bacon pie.

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

  • Pinot Noir
  • Gamay

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.

The top white wines of Winery Christophe Courtinat

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Christophe Courtinat

How Winery Christophe Courtinat wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of leek, goat cheese and bacon quiche, salmon steaks with cream sauce or pageot.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Christophe Courtinat

On the nose the white wine of Winery Christophe Courtinat. often reveals types of flavors of microbio, tree fruit.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Christophe Courtinat

  • 2011With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.55/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.51/5

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

  • Chardonnay
  • Sauvignon Blanc

The word of the wine: Sabrer (champagne)

A cavalier and folkloric way of opening a bottle of champagne by breaking the neck with a sharp blow given with the top of the blade of a sabre.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Christophe Courtinat

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 Christophe Courtinat.

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). 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. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.

News about Winery Christophe Courtinat and wines from the region

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Chardonnay

Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Chardonnay, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are available in French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Bourgogne ...

An overview of Saint-Véran appellation

Let’s have a look at Saint-Véran vineyard and discover the magnificent and very diverse landscapes of this appellation situated in the South of Bourgogne. Saint-Véran is one of the 5 Village appellations with Pouilly-Fuissé, Pouilly-Vinzelles, Pouilly-Loché and Viré-Clessé. Like them, it produces only white wines from the Chardonnay grape. What makes it special is that the vineyard is cut in two dinstinct parts by the vineyard of Pouilly-Fuissé. As anywhere else in the vineyard in Bourgogn ...

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Burgy

Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Burgy, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are availablein French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneWines/ ...

The word of the wine: Sabrer (champagne)

A cavalier and folkloric way of opening a bottle of champagne by breaking the neck with a sharp blow given with the top of the blade of a sabre.