Château de la Guimonière'Chaume'
White wine
This wine generally goes well with fruity desserts, lean fish or shellfish.
Food and wine pairings with 'Chaume'
Pairings that work perfectly with 'Chaume'
Original food and wine pairings with 'Chaume'
The 'Chaume' of Château de la Guimonière matches generally quite well with dishes of mature and hard cheese, fruity desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of beaufort pie, the coughing cat's apple crumble or roquefort and smoked trout salted log.
Details and technical informations about Château de la Guimonière's 'Chaume'.
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.
Informations about the Château de la Guimonière
The Château de la Guimonière is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 10 wines for sale in the of Chaume to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Chaume
AOC 1er Cru of Coteaux du Layon in Anjou (Rochefort-sur-Loire, Maine-et-Loire, 65 ha on pale schists of the Saint-Georges series veined with cherts, the Layon favouring botrytisation, warm sunny autumns and morning mists, AOC 2011): exclusive Chenin Blanc in a lusciously tender sweet style from botrytised grapes harvested at over-ripeness, extraordinary aromatic bouquet, yield ≤20 hl/ha, the quintessence of the Layon.
The wine region of Loire Valley
Kingdom of lively, dry whites and fine sparklers. Mineral, taut Sauvignon Blanc (Sancerre, Pouilly-Fumé) with citrus and gunflint notes. Multiform Chenin Blanc (Vouvray, Savennières, Layon): straight dry, floral off-dry or noble sweet honey-quince. Saline, iodised Muscadet (Melon B.
The word of the wine: Lemonade maker
Corkscrew of the wine waiter equipped with a small blade allowing to cut the capsule, a worm and a system of rack allowing to extract the cork easily.
