The Winery Comtesse Saint-Hilaire of Médoc of Bordeaux

Winery Comtesse Saint-Hilaire
Only one wine is currently referenced in this domain
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 1106 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Médoc in the region of Bordeaux

The Winery Comtesse Saint-Hilaire is one of the best wineries to follow in Médoc.. It offers 1 wines for sale in of Médoc to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Comtesse Saint-Hilaire wines

Looking for the best Winery Comtesse Saint-Hilaire wines in Médoc among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Comtesse Saint-Hilaire 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 Comtesse Saint-Hilaire wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Comtesse Saint-Hilaire

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Comtesse Saint-Hilaire

How Winery Comtesse Saint-Hilaire wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of fresh sausage, lamb shoulder cooked for 5 hours or rack of lamb with herbs.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Comtesse Saint-Hilaire

In the mouth the red wine of Winery Comtesse Saint-Hilaire. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Comtesse Saint-Hilaire

  • 2018With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Comtesse Saint-Hilaire.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Malbec

Discovering the wine region of Médoc

Bordeaux's Médoc is an area of coastal lagoons, sand dunes and pine forests located on the 45th parallel. It is also a global wine powerhouse, and home to four of the world's most prestigious wine villages: Pauillac, Margaux, Saint-Estèphe and Saint-Julien. The estates located in these villages produce some of the most expensive bottles in the world. The region has also provided all but one of the châteaux included in the official 1855 Bordeaux wine classification (Haut-Brion).

The Médoc vineyards cover about 16,000 hectares, including the various small appellations. Approximately 5500 hectares of vines are classified for the production of AOC/AOP Médoc wines. Wedged between the Atlantic coast and the wide Gironde estuary, the Médoc is in fact a peninsula. It stretches 80 kilometres (50 miles) to the northwest, from the city of Bordeaux to the Pointe de Grave.

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Discover the grape variety: Malbec

Malbec, a high-yielding red grape variety, produces tannic and colourful wines. It is produced in different wine-growing regions and changes its name according to the grape variety. Called Auxerrois in Cahors, Malbec in Bordeaux, it is also known as Côt. 6,000 hectares of the Malbec grape are grown in France (in decline since the 1950s). Malbec is also very successful in Argentina. The country has become the world's leading producer of Malbec and offers wines with great potential.

News about Winery Comtesse Saint-Hilaire and wines from the region

Join us for our first Decanter Taste With The Experts event

For the first time ever, Decanter is offering readers and wine lovers alike the chance to see behind the scenes of our renowned panel tastings and experience first hand what it means to taste like an expert. Decanter’s panel tastings are one of the most rigorous exercises in blind tasting, where a panel of three experts taste and score up to 100 wines a day, based on criteria set by the Decanter editorial team. We’re delighted to announced that this autumn will see the start of our n ...

Château Lafon-Rochet appoints Christophe Congé as MD

Having joined Domaine Barons de Rothschild in 1999, Congé has since held the role of oenologist and wine operations manager across Château Lafite Rothschild and Château Duhart Milon for over 22 years. He has now been appointed MD of  Saint-Estèphe fourth growth Château Lafon-Rochet. He takes on his new role with immediate effect. Congé will work closely with Emmanuel Cruse, director of Vignobles Cruse-Lorenzetti, which acquired Château Lafon-Rochet from the Tesseron family last year. The appoint ...

Anthony Barton: tributes paid to Bordeaux wine great

The Barton family announced yesterday (19 January), ‘We have the immense sadness to inform you that our beloved Anthony Barton passed away at the age of 91 years old.’ Known as the ‘gentleman’ of Bordeaux wine and admired for his sense of humour and charisma, Anthony Barton was also widely respected for modernising family estates Léoville Barton and Langoa Barton – the respective 1855 second and third growth châteaux in the St-Julien appellation. Barton was credited, too, with maintaining ...

The word of the wine: Astringent

Said of a wine that is a bit harsh and rough on the palate. Astringency often appears in young red wines that are rich in tannins and need to be rounded out.

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