The Château de Bensse is one of the best wineries to follow in Médoc.. It offers 1 wines for sale in of Médoc to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Château de Bensse wines in Médoc among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château de Bensse 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 de Bensse wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Château de Bensse wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef tagliata with truffle oil, grandma melanie's cassoulet or venison leg marinated in white wine and grand marnier.
On the nose the red wine of Château de Bensse. often reveals types of flavors of cream, oaky or blackberry and sometimes also flavors of blueberry, red fruit or vanilla. In the mouth the red wine of Château de Bensse. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
Bordeaux's Médoc is an area of coastal lagoons, sand dunes and pine forests located on the 45th parallel. It is also a global wine powerhouse, and home to four of the world's most prestigious wine villages: Pauillac, Margaux, Saint-Estèphe and Saint-Julien. The estates located in these villages produce some of the most expensive bottles in the world. The region has also provided all but one of the châteaux included in the official 1855 Bordeaux wine classification (Haut-Brion).
The Médoc vineyards cover about 16,000 hectares, including the various small appellations. Approximately 5500 hectares of vines are classified for the production of AOC/AOP Médoc wines. Wedged between the Atlantic coast and the wide Gironde estuary, the Médoc is in fact a peninsula. It stretches 80 kilometres (50 miles) to the northwest, from the city of Bordeaux to the Pointe de Grave.
Planning a wine route in the of Médoc? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château de Bensse.
Intraspecific crossing between sylvaner x riesling (perhaps rieslaner) and müller-thurgau obtained in 1930 by Peter Morio (1887-1960) and Bernhard Husfeld (1900-1970) at the Siebeldingen Research Institute (Palatinate) in Germany. It can be found in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, the Netherlands, Hungary, England, Canada, South Africa, Brazil, ... very little known in France. Note that Optima is the mother of the Orion grape variety.
