Winery Compagnie FrancaiseAlbert Premier Rosè Mousseux
Sparkling wine
This wine generally goes well with
Details and technical informations about Winery Compagnie Francaise's Albert Premier Rosè Mousseux.
Discover the grape variety: Foch
Interspecific crossing between 101-14 Millardet and Grasset (vitis riparia X vitis rupestris) and the goldriesling obtained by Eugène Kühlmann around 1911. With these same parents, he obtained among others the Léon Millot. Maréchal Foch is still found in Canada (Quebec) where it is the first black grape variety, in the north-east of the United States, etc. In France, it is hardly present in the vineyard any more, although it is registered in the Official Catalogue of Vine Varieties list A.
Informations about the Winery Compagnie Francaise
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The wine region of Saumur Mousseux
The wine region of Saumur Mousseux is located in the region of Saumur of Loire Valley of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Château de Montgueret or the Domaine Duc de Paris produce mainly wines sparkling, red and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Saumur Mousseux are Chardonnay, Pinot noir and Chenin blanc, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Saumur Mousseux often reveals types of flavors of citrus fruit, cream or microbio and sometimes also flavors of citrus, minerality or strawberries.
The wine region of Loire Valley
The Loire Valley is a key wine region in western France. It follows the course of the Loire River on its Long journey through the heart of France, from the inland hills of the Auvergne to the plains of the French Atlantic coast near Nantes (Muscadet country). Important in terms of quantity and quality, the region produces large quantities (about 4 million h/l each year) of everyday wines, as well as some of France's greatest wines. Diversity is another of the region's major assets; the styles of wine produced here range from the light, tangy Muscadet to the Sweet, honeyed Bonnezeaux, the Sparkling whites of Vouvray and the juicy, Tannic reds of Chinon and Saumur.
The word of the wine: Liquid
Sweet wine containing more than 50 grams of residual sugar per liter. Sweet wines are made from grapes often affected by botrytis cinerea and concentrated either by passerillage (drying of the grapes on the vine stock), or after the harvest (straw wines), or by the cold (ice wines).
