Winery Couly-Dutheil Retour au Franc Chinon Cabernet Franc
Red wine
This wine generally goes well with pork, poultry or beef.
The Retour au Franc Chinon Cabernet Franc of the Winery Couly-Dutheil is in the top 30 of wines of Loire Valley.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Retour au Franc Chinon Cabernet Franc of Winery Couly-Dutheil in the region of Loire Valley often reveals types of flavors of oak, spices or black fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Retour au Franc Chinon Cabernet Franc
Pairings that work perfectly with Retour au Franc Chinon Cabernet Franc
Original food and wine pairings with Retour au Franc Chinon Cabernet Franc
The Retour au Franc Chinon Cabernet Franc of Winery Couly-Dutheil matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of dombrés and pig tails, sloth pork loin or aiguillette of duck with honey.
Details and technical informations about Winery Couly-Dutheil's Retour au Franc Chinon Cabernet Franc.
Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc
Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Retour au Franc Chinon Cabernet Franc from Winery Couly-Dutheil are 2013, 2018, 2011, 2012 and 2017.
Informations about the Winery Couly-Dutheil
The Winery Couly-Dutheil is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 33 wines for sale in the of Loire Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.
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.
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The word of the wine: Flavor
Sensation (sweet, salty, sour or bitter) produced on the tongue by a food.
