The Winery Crochet Gaël of Loire Valley

Winery Crochet Gaël
The winery offers 7 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 3480 of the estates of Loire Valley.
It is located in Loire Valley

The Winery Crochet Gaël is one of the best wineries to follow in Vallée de la Loire.. It offers 7 wines for sale in of Loire Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Crochet Gaël wines

Looking for the best Winery Crochet Gaël wines in Loire Valley among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Crochet Gaël 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 Crochet Gaël wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Crochet Gaël

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Crochet Gaël

How Winery Crochet Gaël wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of whole salmon in aromatic broth, vegan leek and tofu quiche or chicken curry samoussas.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Crochet Gaël

  • 2016With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.10/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Crochet Gaël.

  • Chardonnay
  • Chenin Blanc

Discovering 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.

It's quite telling that this brief overview of the region's wines doesn't even mention the Loire Valley's two most famous wines - Sancerre and Pouilly-Fume. White wines are clearly the strong point of the Loire Valley and represent the vast majority of production. A significant proportion of these are produced under PGI appellations, most commonly the IGP Loire (formerly Vin de Pays du Jardin de la France), which covers the whole region. The main white Grape varieties used for the production of white wines in the Loire Valley are Sauvignon Blanc, Chenin Blanc, Melon de Bourgogne and, more popular than the traditional, Chardonnay.

The top pink wines of Winery Crochet Gaël

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Crochet Gaël

How Winery Crochet Gaël wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of tripe in the style of caen, country cabbage or duck breast with spices, roasted figs with honey and port.

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Crochet Gaël.

  • Pinot Noir

Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

The top red wines of Winery Crochet Gaël

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Crochet Gaël

How Winery Crochet Gaël wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of chickpeas spanish style, steamed lamb shoulder with cumin and coriander or magret stuffed with foie gras.

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Crochet Gaël.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot

The word of the wine: Structure

Refers to both the structure and the overall constitution of a wine.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Crochet Gaël

Planning a wine route in the of Loire Valley? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Crochet Gaël.

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Pinot noir is an important red grape variety in Burgundy and Champagne, and its reputation is well known! Great wines such as the Domaine de la Romanée Conti elaborate their wines from this famous grape variety, and make it a great variety. When properly vinified, pinot noit produces red wines of great finesse, with a wide range of aromas depending on its advancement (fruit, undergrowth, leather). it is also the only red grape variety authorized in Alsace. Pinot Noir is not easily cultivated beyond our borders, although it has enjoyed some success in Oregon, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

News about Winery Crochet Gaël and wines from the region

Família Torres establishes new base in Galicia

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The rise of California Cabernet Franc plus 20 top wines worth seeking out

In the wake of the second destructive wave of the phylloxera bug in California in the 1980s and 1990s, Cabernet Sauvignon rose to such prominence and dominance (especially in Napa Valley) that I, like most people, assumed it must now be the most expensive grape variety in the state. Wrong. That would be Cabernet Franc. Top 20 California Cabernet Franc wines Slowly, steadily and quietly, Cabernet Sauvignon’s father has displaced its son* as the priciest grape to buy and the grape that is generati ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘Drinking cheap wine need not be a cheap experience’

Annual domestic gas bills in the UK threaten to rival, in craziness, the price of a box of Bordeaux first growths. Those energy costs have sent the price of almost everything else ripping up after them. Is there, um, anything to be said for cheap wine? There is. First, though, we must sip the bitter harvest of alcohol taxes. These are high in the UK and higher still in Scandinavia, Australia, New Zealand and India; they tend to vary by state in the US and by province in Canada, and in general th ...

The word of the wine: Structure

Refers to both the structure and the overall constitution of a wine.