Winery Clos LamotheCuvée Maria Bordeaux Blanc Sec
White wine
This wine generally goes well with pork, vegetarian or poultry.
Food and wine pairings with Cuvée Maria Bordeaux Blanc Sec
Pairings that work perfectly with Cuvée Maria Bordeaux Blanc Sec
Original food and wine pairings with Cuvée Maria Bordeaux Blanc Sec
The Cuvée Maria Bordeaux Blanc Sec of Winery Clos Lamothe matches generally quite well with dishes of pork, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of spaghetti carbonara, cream and tuna quiche or simple endive gratin with gruyere cheese.
Details and technical informations about Winery Clos Lamothe's Cuvée Maria Bordeaux Blanc Sec.
Discover the grape variety: Saint-Côme
Saint-Côme blanc is a grape variety that originated in France (Aveyron). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. The white Saint-Côme can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Rhone valley, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.
Informations about the Winery Clos Lamothe
The Winery Clos Lamothe is one of wineries to follow in Bordeaux Sec.. It offers 7 wines for sale in the of Bordeaux Sec to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Bordeaux Sec
All Dry white wines produced in Gironde can claim the regional appellation Bordeaux sec. The 1977 decree specifies that white wines with an Alcohol content of between 10 and 13° and a sugar content of less than 4g/l must be labelled as dry Bordeaux. The Bordeaux dry wine area covers 6,500 hectares and produces an average of 383,000 hl of wine per year. Its soils are clay-limestone, clay-siliceous, made up of gravel, sand and silt.
The wine region of Bordeaux
Bordeaux, in southwestern France, is one of the most famous, prestigious and prolific wine regions in the world. The majority of Bordeaux wines (nearly 90% of the production Volume) are the Dry, medium and Full-bodied red Bordeaux blends for which it is famous. The finest (and most expensive) are the wines of the great châteaux of Haut-Médoc and the right bank appellations of Saint-Émilion and Pomerol. The former focuses (at the highest level) on Cabernet Sauvignon, the latter on Merlot.
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The word of the wine: Chaptalization
The addition of sugar at the time of fermentation of the must, an ancient practice, but theorized by Jean-Antoine Chaptal at the dawn of the 19th century. The sugar is transformed into alcohol and allows the natural degree of the wine to be raised in a weak or cold year, or - more questionably - when the winegrower has a harvest that is too large to obtain good maturity.
