The Winery Cru de l'Hopital of Neuchâtel

Winery Cru de l'Hopital - Alloy
The winery offers 24 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 60 of the estates of Neuchâtel.
It is located in Neuchâtel

The Winery Cru de l'Hopital is one of the world's great estates. It offers 24 wines for sale in of Neuchâtel to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Cru de l'Hopital wines

Looking for the best Winery Cru de l'Hopital wines in Neuchâtel among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Cru de l'Hopital 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 Cru de l'Hopital wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Cru de l'Hopital

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Cru de l'Hopital

How Winery Cru de l'Hopital wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of poultry, lean fish or mild and soft cheese such as recipes of sophie's tuna cake, pundu na madesu or raclette with 8 cheeses.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Cru de l'Hopital

On the nose the white wine of Winery Cru de l'Hopital. often reveals types of flavors of tropical fruit, microbio or oak and sometimes also flavors of non oak, earth or citrus fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Cru de l'Hopital. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Cru de l'Hopital

  • 2014With an average score of 4.28/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.91/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.89/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.85/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.84/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.81/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Cru de l'Hopital.

  • Chasselas
  • Traminer
  • Pinot Gris
  • Chardonnay
  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Viognier

Discovering the wine region of Neuchâtel

Neuchatel is one of the smaller wine regions of Switzerland, located in the French-speaking western half of the country, North of the much larger Vaud area. Much like its neighbour, Chasselas dominates white plantings here, however Pinot Noir is more significant here, as is the reputation of Neuchatel's rosés. The region is generally referred to as the 'Three Lakes' as the region - and the four AOCs within it - are found on the relatively low-lying, flatter land, centered around the lakes of Morat, Bienne and Neuchatel. The region also covers three neighbouring Swiss cantons.

AOPs Cheyres and Vully occupy 105 (260 acres) of the canton of Fribourg (on the shores of Lac de Neuchatel and Morat, respectively), while the Lac de Bienne, or Bielersee (for the generally Swiss-German speaking people of Bern) denomination takes up 222 hectares (550 acres) of the canton of Bern on the lake of Bienne. The lion's share of the AOP, around 605 hectares (1,500 acres), is in the canton of Neuchatel, mainly on the north shore of the eponymous lake, in the Neuchatel AOP. Overall, this puts the wine region on what the Swiss refer to as "la plaine" - a relatively flat area of land from Geneva through Bern to ZuRich, sandwiched to the north by the Jura and to the South by the Alps. The Vineyards here are on relatively low-lying, flatter land, centered around the lakes.

Soils here are light and stony, generally Jurassic and rich in limestone. However, areas with more clay and vigour can also be found. The Climate is moderated significantly by the presence of the lakes, which prevent summer temperatures from rising dramatically and also dampen the effects of frost and snow in winter. Neuchatel has about-average rainfall of around 1,000mm (39 inches) per year.

The top sweet wines of Winery Cru de l'Hopital

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Cru de l'Hopital

How Winery Cru de l'Hopital wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), spicy food or sweet desserts such as recipes of potato and tuna gratin, tunisian pasta or apple cake.

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Winery Cru de l'Hopital.

  • Chasselas
  • Gewürztraminer
  • Grauburgunder

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon

Sauvignon Gris is a grape variety that originated in France (South-West). 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 bunches and small grapes. Sauvignon Gris can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Burgundy, Jura, Beaujolais, Armagnac, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey.

The top red wines of Winery Cru de l'Hopital

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Cru de l'Hopital

How Winery Cru de l'Hopital wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, spicy food or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of chickpeas spanish style, fish and shrimp curry or mashed potatoes with chastillon cheese.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Cru de l'Hopital

On the nose the red wine of Winery Cru de l'Hopital. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit, oak. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Cru de l'Hopital. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Cru de l'Hopital

  • 2011With an average score of 4.11/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.93/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.91/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.88/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.83/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Cru de l'Hopital.

  • Pinot Noir
  • Malbec
  • Diolinoir
  • Garanoir
  • Gamaret

The word of the wine: Sorting

Action which consists in removing the bad grains, not ripe or affected by the rot. We often use vibrating sorting tables which, by shaking, make the impurities fall to the ground. In the case of sweet wines, we speak of harvesting by successive selections, in several passages, to select the very ripe grapes each time.

The top pink wines of Winery Cru de l'Hopital

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Cru de l'Hopital

How Winery Cru de l'Hopital wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of paupiettes of veal, chinchards with white wine and grapes or rabbit with cider and apples.

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Cru de l'Hopital.

  • Pinot Noir

Discover the grape variety: Diolinoir

Intraspecific cross between robin noir and pinot noir obtained in 1970 by André Jacquinet of the Swiss Federal Research Station Agroscope Changins-Wadenswil (Switzerland).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Cru de l'Hopital

Planning a wine route in the of Neuchâtel? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Cru de l'Hopital.

Discover the grape variety: Viognier

White Viognier is a grape variety that originated in France (Rhone Valley). 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 bunches, and grapes of small size. White Viognier can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone Valley, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Savoie & Bugey, Provence & Corsica, Loire Valley, Beaujolais.

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The word of the wine: Sorting

Action which consists in removing the bad grains, not ripe or affected by the rot. We often use vibrating sorting tables which, by shaking, make the impurities fall to the ground. In the case of sweet wines, we speak of harvesting by successive selections, in several passages, to select the very ripe grapes each time.

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