The Winery Courtine is one of the best wineries to follow in Sauternes.. It offers 6 wines for sale in of Sauternes to come and discover on site or to buy online.
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How Winery Courtine wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of fruity desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of rice with milk or three-cheese pâté.
Sauternes, 65 km South of Bordeaux, is a Village renowned for its high quality Sweet wines. Although some wineries produce Dry wines, they sell them under other appellations than Sauternes, which is specific to sweet wines. The village is surrounded on all sides by vineyards, the best of which produce some of the most prestigious, long-lasting and expensive dessert wines in the world. A half bottle of premium, aged Sauternes from a good Vintage can sell for over $1,000.
Classic Sauternes has a DeepGoldenColor (darker than most other dessert wines), which turns a deep amber color with bottle age. Its aromas include flower and stone fruit, with a hint of honeysuckle - the hallmark of botrytized wines. The best wines balance sweetness with acidity, concentration with freshness and power with elegance. Sauternes wines are primarily made from the Sémillon grape, which accounts for about eight out of every ten vines in the local vineyard.
Sauvignon Blanc accounts for most of the remaining vineyard and is the dominant grape in a small handful of Sauternes wines. Semillon forms a broad, well-structured base with aromas of beeswax and apricot, while Sauvignon Blanc contributes its characteristic herbal aromas and enough acidity to keep the resulting wine fresh rather than mouthwatering. These two varieties (sometimes supplemented by a small amount of Muscadelle and Sauvignon Gris) have become the preferred varieties here, not only because they are also used to make dry white Bordeaux wines, but also because of their susceptibility to a particular type of fungus, Botrytis cinerea (often just botrytis). Apart from yeast, without which the grape juice cannot ferment into wine, one would not expect a fungus to play a key role in winemaking.
How Winery Courtine wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .
Interspecific cross between Cabernet Sauvignon and Solaris (Merzling x Geisenheim 6493 (Zarya Severa x Muscat Ottonel)) made in 1982 by Norbert Becker of the Freiburg Research Institute in Germany. It has the particularity of having only one gene for resistance to mildew and powdery mildew. It can be found in the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland, etc., but is still little known in France. Note that Cabernet-Carol has the same parents.
How Winery Courtine wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of provencal stew, lamb mice confit and melting carrots or quinoa patties with courgettes and fresh goat cheese.
A full-bodied wine, rich in tannins and probably with good ageing potential.
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Most certainly of Italian origin, more exactly from Sicily where it is very present, ... almost unknown in France, met in Tunisia. It is involved in the production of the famous Marsala.
