The Château Couteau of Bordeaux

Château Couteau
The winery offers 8 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Bordeaux.
It is located in Bordeaux

The Château Couteau is one of the best wineries to follow in Bordeaux.. It offers 8 wines for sale in of Bordeaux to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Couteau wines

Looking for the best Château Couteau wines in Bordeaux among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Couteau 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 Château Couteau wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château Couteau

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Couteau

How Château Couteau wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of family potluck, fillet of beef with morels or wild boar with honey.

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Couteau.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot
  • Malbec
  • Petit Verdot

Discovering the wine region of Bordeaux

Bordeaux, in southwestern France, is one of the most famous, prestigious and prolific wine regions in the world. The majority of Bordeaux wines (nearly 90% of the production Volume) are the Dry, medium and Full-bodied red Bordeaux blends for which it is famous. The finest (and most expensive) are the wines of the great châteaux of Haut-Médoc and the right bank appellations of Saint-Émilion and Pomerol. The former focuses (at the highest level) on Cabernet Sauvignon, the latter on Merlot.

The legendary reds are complemented by high-quality white wines made from Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc. These range from dry whites that challenge the best of Burgundy (Pessac-Léognan is particularly renowned) to the Sweet, botrytised nectars of Sauternes. Although Bordeaux is most famous for its wines produced in specific districts or communes, many of its wines fall under other, broader appellations. These include AOC Bordeaux, Bordeaux Supérieur and Crémant de Bordeaux.

The Bordeaux Red appellation represents more than a third of the total production. The official Bordeaux wine region extends 130 kilometres inland from the Atlantic coast. 111,000 hectares of vineyards were registered in 2018, a figure that has remained largely constant over the previous decade. However, the number of winegrowers has consolidated; in 2018 there were around 6,000, compared to 9,000 a decade earlier.

The top white wines of Château Couteau

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Château Couteau

How Château Couteau wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of boeuf en daube, vegan leek and tofu quiche or thai rice, asian style.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Château Couteau.

  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Sémillon

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon blanc

Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.

The top pink wines of Château Couteau

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Château Couteau

How Château Couteau wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of mussels with roquefort cheese, quiche without pastry, courgette and blue cheese or basque chicken with chorizo.

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Château Couteau.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot

The word of the wine: Hautain (en)

Pruning of the vine in height.

The top sweet wines of Château Couteau

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Château Couteau

How Château Couteau wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or sweet desserts such as recipes of pumpkin and tuna gratin, seafood pie or gaufress and light.

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Château Couteau.

  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Sémillon

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Couteau

Planning a wine route in the of Bordeaux? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Couteau.

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 Château Couteau and wines from the region

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Bussières

Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Bussières, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are available in French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneW ...

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Lugny

Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Lugny, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are available in French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneWines ...

The Irancy appellation seen by Clotilde Davenne

Clotilde Davenne, from the eponymous estate, mentions the cherry as a main characteristic of the Irancy appellation. She tells us about the Pinot Noir variety which reveals, in its northern location of Bourgogne, lots of freshness and fruitiness that gives the appellation a very special place among the wines of the region. This video is taken from the “Rendez-vous avec les vins de Bourgogne” program (June 2020). Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​ Twitter: https: ...

The word of the wine: Hautain (en)

Pruning of the vine in height.