Clos MirabelJurançon
White wine
This wine generally goes well with
Details and technical informations about Clos Mirabel's Jurançon.
Discover the grape variety: Sweet Sapphire
Seedless (pip-free) table grape with long clusters and very elongated cylindrical blue-black berries with thin skin and crunchy flesh, sweet and fresh on the palate. Grown in California, China and Spain for export markets, prized for its striking elongated shape that catches the eye at premium counters. American black seedless table grape variety bred for fresh consumption.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Jurançon from Clos Mirabel are 2011
Informations about the Clos Mirabel
The Clos Mirabel is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 2 wines for sale in the of Jurançon to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Jurançon
Béarn jewel of whites at the foot of the Pyrenees: signature Petit Manseng as king white for sweet wines (on-vine raisining) — opulent and fresh with notes of honey, candied pineapple, mango, apricot, white flowers, cinnamon, nutmeg and a truffle touch, signature chiseled acidity balancing sugar. Gros Manseng as dry, lively and taut (citrus, exotic fruits, flowers). Courbu and Lauzet as complement. AOC (1936), ~1,000 ha on 25 communes south of Pau, clay-gravel terraces.
The wine region of South West
French mosaic of strong identities south of Bordeaux. Cahors and its Malbec ("black wine"): deep reds with notes of blackberry, plum, violet, tobacco and cocoa, firm tannins. Madiran and its dense, age-worthy Tannat. Jurançon whites: golden sweet (apricot, honey, pineapple) and lively dry from Petit Manseng.
The word of the wine: Marcottage
A vine reproduction technique that consists of burying a vine shoot that takes root and reproduces a plant with the same characteristics as the vine to which it is attached (synonym: provignage).
