The Winery Codex is one of the world's great estates. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Gascogne to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Codex wines in Gascogne among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Codex 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 Codex wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Codex wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or vegetarian such as recipes of tuna omelette, pike quenelles with lobster bisque sauce or goat cheese and bacon quiche.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Codex. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit.
Between the Landes forest, the Garonne and the Pyrenees, the Gascony hillsides cover the Gers dePartment and part of the Landes and Lot-et-Garonne departments. The vineyards occupy the same area as Armagnac, a brandy still produced in the region, but whose volumes have declined in favour of vins de pays (now PGI). Under the influence of a mild oceanic Climate, it is fairly wet in the west, drier in the east, especially in summer. In the west, the subsoil of tawny sands is of marine origin, covered with boulbènes; in the east, it gradually gives way to molasse, a rock resulting from the erosion of the Pyrenees.
The soils are either stony and chalky (peyrusquets) or clayey and Deep (terrefort), retaining water well. The Condom region, the driest, has its own name (Condomois). The main Grape varieties cultivated are white: Colombard and Ugni blanc, the varieties of armagnac. Generally associated, sometimes completed by Sauvignon and Chardonnay, they give lively white wines with an exuberant fruitiness.
How Winery Codex wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of beef fillet in a crust or chicken puff pastry.
Grenache noir is a grape variety that originated in Spain. It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by medium to large bunches, and grapes of medium size. Grenache noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Languedoc & Roussillon, Rhone Valley, Loire Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.
How Winery Codex wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of tanjia, lamb tagine with artichokes and dried tomatoes or adapted vietnamese fondue.
On the nose the red wine of Winery Codex. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, red fruit or black fruit.
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Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). 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 to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.
