Winery Claire MayolBanyuls Hors d'Age
Natural sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.
Food and wine pairings with Banyuls Hors d'Age
Pairings that work perfectly with Banyuls Hors d'Age
Original food and wine pairings with Banyuls Hors d'Age
The Banyuls Hors d'Age of Winery Claire Mayol matches generally quite well with dishes of mature and hard cheese, blue cheese or aperitif such as recipes of fondue savoyarde style, potato soufflé with auvergne blue cheese or caricoles as in brussels (translation: sea snails or whelks).
Details and technical informations about Winery Claire Mayol's Banyuls Hors d'Age.
Discover the grape variety: Folignan
Folignan blanc is a grape variety that originated in France (Languedoc). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. It should be noted that this variety can also be used for the elaboration of eaux de vie. Folignan blanc can be found cultivated in the following vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley.
Informations about the Winery Claire Mayol
The Winery Claire Mayol is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 11 wines for sale in the of Banyuls to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Banyuls
Banyuls wines come from the South-eastern Part of Roussillon, in the south of France, in the lower Pyrenees, a few kilometres from the Spanish border. These naturally Sweet wines are consumed both as an aperitif and as a dessert. They come in a wide range of hues, from GoldenGreen (Banyuls Blanc) to Amber (Banyuls Ambré) to the intense garnet of the standard Banyuls Rouge. Unusually among the natural sweet wines of France, all Banyuls wines are made primarily from Grenache grapes of various colors.
The wine region of Languedoc-Roussillon
Languedoc (formerly Coteaux du Languedoc) is a key appellation used in the Languedoc-Roussillon wine region of southern France. It covers Dry table wines of all three colors (red, white and rosé) from the entire region, but leaves Sweet and Sparkling wines to other more specialized appellations. About 75% of all Languedoc wines are red, with the remaining 25% split roughly down the middle between whites and rosés. The appellation covers most of the Languedoc region and almost a third of all the vineyards in France.
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.
