Winery Coume del MasBanyuls Blanc
Natural sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with poultry, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish.
The Banyuls Blanc of the Winery Coume del Mas is in the top 30 of wines of Banyuls.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Banyuls Blanc of Winery Coume del Mas in the region of Languedoc-Roussillon often reveals types of flavors of honey, marzipan or non oak and sometimes also flavors of earth, oak.
Food and wine pairings with Banyuls Blanc
Pairings that work perfectly with Banyuls Blanc
Original food and wine pairings with Banyuls Blanc
The Banyuls Blanc of Winery Coume del Mas matches generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or poultry such as recipes of salmon and leek gratin, samoussa 3 reunionese cheeses or chicken waterzooi with blanche de hoegaarden and pink pepper.
Details and technical informations about Winery Coume del Mas's Banyuls Blanc.
Discover the grape variety: Millot Léon
Interspecific crossing between the 101-14 Millardet and Grasset (vitis riparia X vitis rupestris) and the goldriesling obtained by Eugène Kühlmann (1858-1932) around 1911 and marketed around 1921. With these same parents, he obtained among others the Maréchal Foch. Léon Millot is still found in Canada, the United States, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Poland and England. In France, where it was grown for a long time in Alsace, it is no longer grown in the vineyards, although it is listed in the Official Catalogue of Vine Varieties, list A.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Banyuls Blanc from Winery Coume del Mas are 2014, 2015, 2012
Informations about the Winery Coume del Mas
The Winery Coume del Mas is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 16 wines for sale in the of Banyuls to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Banyuls
Banyuls wines come from the South-eastern Part of Roussillon, in the south of France, in the lower Pyrenees, a few kilometres from the Spanish border. These naturally Sweet wines are consumed both as an aperitif and as a dessert. They come in a wide range of hues, from GoldenGreen (Banyuls Blanc) to Amber (Banyuls Ambré) to the intense garnet of the standard Banyuls Rouge. Unusually among the natural sweet wines of France, all Banyuls wines are made primarily from Grenache grapes of various colors.
The wine region of Languedoc-Roussillon
Languedoc (formerly Coteaux du Languedoc) is a key appellation used in the Languedoc-Roussillon wine region of southern France. It covers Dry table wines of all three colors (red, white and rosé) from the entire region, but leaves Sweet and Sparkling wines to other more specialized appellations. About 75% of all Languedoc wines are red, with the remaining 25% split roughly down the middle between whites and rosés. The appellation covers most of the Languedoc region and almost a third of all the vineyards in France.
The word of the wine: Grenache gris
A grey variety of Grenache grown in the Pyrénées-Orientales, the Aude and the southern Rhône valley. Its powerful and round wines are used in the blending of dry white or rosé wines and natural sweet wines.
