The Winery Croix des Vainqueurs of Vouvray of Loire Valley | Winedexer

Winery Croix des Vainqueurs
The winery offers 17 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 127 of the estates of Loire Valley.
It is located in Vouvray in the region of Loire Valley

The Winery Croix des Vainqueurs is one of the best wineries to follow in Vouvray.. It offers 17 wines for sale in of Vouvray to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Croix des Vainqueurs wines

Looking for the best Winery Croix des Vainqueurs wines in Vouvray among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Croix des Vainqueurs 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 Croix des Vainqueurs wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Croix des Vainqueurs

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Croix des Vainqueurs

How Winery Croix des Vainqueurs wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, poultry or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of valencian paella, chicken tenderloins with lemon cream or tuna, tomato and olive cake.

Organoleptic analysis of sparkling wines of Winery Croix des Vainqueurs

On the nose the sparkling wine of Winery Croix des Vainqueurs. often reveals types of flavors of green apple, almonds or non oak and sometimes also flavors of earth, microbio or vegetal.

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery Croix des Vainqueurs.

  • Chenin Blanc
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Chardonnay
  • Pinot Meunier
  • Gamay

Discovering the wine region of Vouvray

100% Chenin Blanc on the tuffeau slopes of Touraine: a unique stylistic palette from sparkling brut to botrytised sweet. Taut, straight dry with notes of green apple, citrus and chalk. Round, honeyed off-dry with ripe fruits. Opulent sweet and luscious wines with aromas of quince, honey and fruit paste from late harvest or noble rot.

Lively, brioche-like traditional-method sparkling. Legendary acidity giving an ageing potential of several decades.

The top sweet wines of Winery Croix des Vainqueurs

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Croix des Vainqueurs

How Winery Croix des Vainqueurs wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, lean fish or fruity desserts such as recipes of rice with shrimps and onions, blanquette of monkfish and scallops or rice with milk.

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Winery Croix des Vainqueurs.

  • Chenin Blanc

Discover the grape variety: Chenin blanc

Chameleon whites with taut acidity, ranging from mineral dry (Savennières, Vouvray sec) to off-dry and medium-sweet (Vouvray, Montlouis), sumptuous botrytised sweet (Quarts-de-Chaume, Bonnezeaux, Coteaux du Layon) and brilliant sparkling (Crémant de Loire, Vouvray brut). Aromas of quince, apple, honey, white flowers, beeswax and flint. An Anjou variety, also star of South Africa's Western Cape.

The top white wines of Winery Croix des Vainqueurs

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Croix des Vainqueurs

How Winery Croix des Vainqueurs wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of tuna and mozzarella pie, leek, goat cheese and bacon quiche or fried squid.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Croix des Vainqueurs

On the nose the white wine of Winery Croix des Vainqueurs. often reveals types of flavors of citrus, peach or pear and sometimes also flavors of honey, earth or microbio. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Croix des Vainqueurs. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Croix des Vainqueurs

  • 2014With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.59/5
  • 2015With an average score of 2.90/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Croix des Vainqueurs.

  • Chenin Blanc

The word of the wine: Pressing

Mechanical action consisting of pressing the grapes (before fermentation for whites) or the marc soaked in wine (after fermentation for reds).

The top red wines of Winery Croix des Vainqueurs

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Croix des Vainqueurs

How Winery Croix des Vainqueurs wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of lamb, pork or poultry such as recipes of merguez with lentils, filet mignon in a crust or traditional tunisian couscous.

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

Whites with many faces: mineral and taut at Chablis (lemon, green apple, flint), opulent and buttery at Meursault and Puligny-Montrachet (hazelnut, brioche, yellow fruits), tense and chalky in Champagne (Blanc de Blancs). Also vinified sparkling and widely exported (Sonoma, Margaret River, Casablanca). A Burgundian variety, a cross of Pinot Noir × Gouais Blanc, half-sibling of Aligoté.

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Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Supple, fragrant reds with fine tannins and vibrant freshness, showing raspberry, violet, green pepper, pencil lead and gentle spice aromas. Star of the Loire as a single variety (Chinon, Bourgueil, Saumur-Champigny) and of the right bank of Bordeaux in blends (Cheval Blanc at 60%). Also in semi-dry Anjou rosés. A historic Bordeaux variety, parent of Cabernet-Sauvignon, Merlot and Carmenère.