Winery Claude LafondLe Clos du Château Valençay Blanc
White wine
This wine generally goes well with pork, vegetarian or poultry.
The Le Clos du Château Valençay Blanc of the Winery Claude Lafond is in the top 20 of wines of Valençay.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Le Clos du Château Valençay Blanc of Winery Claude Lafond in the region of Loire Valley often reveals types of flavors of peach, earth or vegetal and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Le Clos du Château Valençay Blanc
Pairings that work perfectly with Le Clos du Château Valençay Blanc
Original food and wine pairings with Le Clos du Château Valençay Blanc
The Le Clos du Château Valençay Blanc of Winery Claude Lafond matches generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of cantonese rice, quick salmon and zucchini lasagna or penne with shrimp and zucchini.
Details and technical informations about Winery Claude Lafond's Le Clos du Château Valençay Blanc.
Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay
Whites with many faces: mineral and taut at Chablis (lemon, green apple, flint), opulent and buttery at Meursault and Puligny-Montrachet (hazelnut, brioche, yellow fruits), tense and chalky in Champagne (Blanc de Blancs). Also vinified sparkling and widely exported (Sonoma, Margaret River, Casablanca). A Burgundian variety, a cross of Pinot Noir × Gouais Blanc, half-sibling of Aligoté.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Le Clos du Château Valençay Blanc from Winery Claude Lafond are 2017, 2015, 2018, 2016
Informations about the Winery Claude Lafond
The Winery Claude Lafond is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 36 wines for sale in the of Valençay to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Valençay
AOC of the Berry-Touraine (2003), the only appellation sharing its name with a cheese: reds (>50%) led by Gamay (30–60%) with Pinot Noir (10%) and Côt (10%) — sustained ruby, dark fruits, easy-drinking palate with spicy notes. Whites with Sauvignon (≥70%) completed by Chardonnay and Orbois — exotic fruit aromas and flint minerality as a signature. Rosés (12%) with optional Pineau d'Aunis. "Perruche" soils (clay-flint), sandy-gravelly terrains.
The wine region of Loire Valley
Kingdom of lively, dry whites and fine sparklers. Mineral, taut Sauvignon Blanc (Sancerre, Pouilly-Fumé) with citrus and gunflint notes. Multiform Chenin Blanc (Vouvray, Savennières, Layon): straight dry, floral off-dry or noble sweet honey-quince. Saline, iodised Muscadet (Melon B.
The word of the wine: Private cellar
A term that designates an estate or a château belonging to a winegrower or a family, as opposed to a cooperative cellar that brings together member winegrowers.
