The Château d'Elle of South West

Château d'Elle
The winery offers 4 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.
It is ranked in the top 2338 of the estates of South West.
It is located in South West

The Château d'Elle is one of the best wineries to follow in Sud-Ouest.. It offers 4 wines for sale in of South West to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château d'Elle wines

Looking for the best Château d'Elle wines in South West among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château d'Elle 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 d'Elle wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château d'Elle

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château d'Elle

How Château d'Elle wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef with balsamic sauce, rack of lamb with antiboise sauce or duck with olives.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château d'Elle

  • 2012With an average score of 3.90/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château d'Elle.

  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon

Discovering the wine region of South West

The South-West is a large territorial area of France, comprising the administrative regions of Aquitaine, Limousin and Midi-Pyrénées. However, as far as the French wine area is concerned, the South-West region is a little less clear-cut, as it excludes Bordeaux - a wine region so productive that it is de facto an area in its own right. The wines of the South West have a Long and eventful history. The local rivers play a key role, as they were the main trade routes to bring wines from traditional regions such as Cahors, Bergerac, Buzet and Gaillac to their markets.

The last Trading post before the wines left for the lucrative markets of Britain was the wine town and port of Bordeaux. Britain has been a historic trading partner for the region, which was nominally British for a period following the marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine to Henry II of Britain. However, Bordeaux businessmen saw the wines in transit as competition for their own local products and took strong measures to ensure their financial security. The result is the French wine map we know today, with Bordeaux being promoted and the other wine regions of the South West struggling to gain recognition for the diversity and Character of their wines.

This history also explains why the Bordeaux Grapes Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Sauvignon Blanc are now three of the best-known grape varieties in the world, while traditional South West grapes such as Fer Servadou, Len de l'El and Tannat are relatively unknown.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château d'Elle

Planning a wine route in the of South West? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château d'Elle.

Discover the grape variety: Baroque

From a morphological point of view, Baroque seems to have common origins with Tannat. Still called Blanc Bordelais, this white grape variety is distinguished essentially by the characteristics of its leaves. Those that are still young are both yellowish and downy. Their bumps have a somewhat bronzed appearance. The adult leaves have angular teeth. The leaves are not very three-lobed and have a pubescent, downy blade. The Baroque is grown in the Adour basin, mainly in Tursan and in certain vineyards in the Gers. Its production area is therefore not very large. This grape variety manages to resist oidium, unlike other varieties, and its harvest must be well done and free of rot. The harvest must be well done and free of rot, which leads to a better result and a more successful wine production. Moreover, the development of Baroque must be slowed down in time, bearing in mind that this type of grape variety only matures about twenty days after Chasselas.

News about Château d'Elle and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Bold

A wine with a smooth texture reminiscent of fats.