The Winery Clos La Piastre of Sauternes of Bordeaux

Winery Clos La Piastre - Graves Rouge
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.2.
It is ranked in the top 442 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Sauternes in the region of Bordeaux

The Winery Clos La Piastre is one of the best wineries to follow in Sauternes.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Sauternes to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Clos La Piastre wines

Looking for the best Winery Clos La Piastre wines in Sauternes among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Clos La Piastre 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 Clos La Piastre wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Clos La Piastre

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Clos La Piastre

How Winery Clos La Piastre wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef enchilladas au gratin, lamb tagine with honey and dried fruits or wild boar stew.

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Clos La Piastre.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Sauternes

Sauternes, 65 km South of Bordeaux, is a Village renowned for its high quality Sweet wines. Although some wineries produce Dry wines, they sell them under other appellations than Sauternes, which is specific to sweet wines. The village is surrounded on all sides by vineyards, the best of which produce some of the most prestigious, long-lasting and expensive dessert wines in the world. A half bottle of premium, aged Sauternes from a good Vintage can sell for over $1,000.

Classic Sauternes has a DeepGoldenColor (darker than most other dessert wines), which turns a deep amber color with bottle age. Its aromas include flower and stone fruit, with a hint of honeysuckle - the hallmark of botrytized wines. The best wines balance sweetness with acidity, concentration with freshness and power with elegance. Sauternes wines are primarily made from the Sémillon grape, which accounts for about eight out of every ten vines in the local vineyard.

Sauvignon Blanc accounts for most of the remaining vineyard and is the dominant grape in a small handful of Sauternes wines. Semillon forms a broad, well-structured base with aromas of beeswax and apricot, while Sauvignon Blanc contributes its characteristic herbal aromas and enough acidity to keep the resulting wine fresh rather than mouthwatering. These two varieties (sometimes supplemented by a small amount of Muscadelle and Sauvignon Gris) have become the preferred varieties here, not only because they are also used to make dry white Bordeaux wines, but also because of their susceptibility to a particular type of fungus, Botrytis cinerea (often just botrytis). Apart from yeast, without which the grape juice cannot ferment into wine, one would not expect a fungus to play a key role in winemaking.

The top white wines of Winery Clos La Piastre

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Clos La Piastre

How Winery Clos La Piastre wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of oven-baked sausage, broccoli and blue cheese quiche without pastry or genuine chicken tagine olive and lemon confit tagine with argan oil.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Clos La Piastre

In the mouth the white wine of Winery Clos La Piastre. is a powerful.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Clos La Piastre.

  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Muscadelle

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon

Sauvignon Gris is a grape variety that originated in France (South-West). 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. Sauvignon Gris can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Burgundy, Jura, Beaujolais, Armagnac, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Clos La Piastre

Planning a wine route in the of Sauternes? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Clos La Piastre.

Discover the grape variety: Muscadelle

Muscadelle white is a grape variety that originated in France (Bergerac). 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 bunches of medium size, and grapes of medium caliber. Muscadelle white can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Armagnac, Provence & Corsica, Rhone valley, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Languedoc & Roussillon.

News about Winery Clos La Piastre and wines from the region

Bordeaux 2021 En Primeur: first impressions

There’s no doubt that 2021 was a challenging vintage. Most explanatory statements or technical sheets handed out over the past few weeks have mentioned the unfavourable, oft disastrous weather conditions, the sometimes very low and disheartening yields and the slightly varied or unusual blends on offer in 2021. Difficulties faced by vignerons both inside and outside of the cellar have been explained in detail as has the raft of highly important decisions needed be made throughout the year, ...

Stephen Brook: ‘It is astonishing how rapidly changes can take place in the Bordeaux region’

My book The Complete Bordeaux, which has been revised every five years, is soon to be published in its fourth edition. This may seem like excessive haste, given the scope of the book, but it is astonishing how rapidly changes can take place in the region. Burgundy, in contrast, is relatively stable, since most properties are family-owned and tend to stay that way. But not so in Bordeaux, where there are ample opportunities for newcomers to acquire established properties, as they have been doing ...

New Château Latour 2010 stocks released onto market

New stocks of Château Latour 2010 were released from the Pauillac-based First Growth’s cellars on 13 September. Latour 2010 is regarded as one of the best Bordeaux wines of the 21st century so far, and has received two 100-point Decanter scores in the past three years. It’s also more expensive than many other Latour vintages, but analyst group Wine Lister said it expected buyers to show interest. ‘There is no doubt that this release will see demand, especially for merchants rel ...

The word of the wine: Maderised

Term used to designate oxidized wines in reference to Madeira wines.