The Domaine des Florets of Rhône méridional of Rhone Valley

Domaine des Florets
The winery offers 9 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 605 of the estates of Rhone Valley.
It is located in Rhône méridional in the region of Rhone Valley
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The Domaine des Florets is one of the best wineries to follow in Rhône méridional.. It offers 9 wines for sale in of Rhône méridional to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Domaine des Florets wines

Looking for the best Domaine des Florets wines in Rhône méridional among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Domaine des Florets 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 Domaine des Florets wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top pink wines of Domaine des Florets

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Domaine des Florets

How Domaine des Florets wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of cabbage casserole, pasta with tuna and tomato or marinated shrimp sautéed asian style.

Discovering the wine region of Rhône méridional

Côtes du Rhône is a regional appellation in the Rhône Valley in eastern France. It applies to red, rosé and white wines, and includes more than 170 villages. The area follows the course of the Rhône southward for 125 miles (200 km) from Saint-Cyr-sur-le-Rhône to Avignon. A small portion of the wines in the appellation are white wines.

However, the classic Côtes du Rhône wine is a blend of Fruity, medium-weight reds made from Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre. The Côtes du Rhône appellation was introduced in November 1937. Its purpose was to give a general title to good quality Rhone wines from the lesser known and less prestigious wine producing areas of the valley. Côtes du Rhône The landscape of the Côtes du Rhône.

The top red wines of Domaine des Florets

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Domaine des Florets

How Domaine des Florets wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of pork tongue with bacon and onions, tunisian macaroni or roast duck in the oven.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Domaine des Florets

On the nose the red wine of Domaine des Florets. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, oak or spices and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Domaine des Florets. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Domaine des Florets

  • 2014With an average score of 4.12/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2012With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2011With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.90/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Domaine des Florets.

  • Grenache
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Mourvedre

Discover the grape variety: Grenache

Grenache noir is a grape variety that originated in Spain. It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by medium to large bunches, and grapes of medium size. Grenache noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Languedoc & Roussillon, Rhone Valley, Loire Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

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Planning a wine route in the of Rhône méridional? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Domaine des Florets.

Discover the grape variety: Mourvèdre

Mourvèdre noir is a grape variety originating from Spain. 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 medium to large bunches, and grapes of medium size. Mourvèdre noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Rhône valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

News about Domaine des Florets and wines from the region

Buying wine en primeur: How to approach it

Colin Hay, a professor of political economy with a special interest in the Place de Bordeaux, considers the different ways of approaching en primeur purchasing, ahead of this year’s 2021 campaign. Buying en primeur wines is a rather strange and, arguably, arcane system of buying and selling in which the consumer purchases the wine typically in the early summer following the vintage even though it will not be bottled and delivered for a further 12-18 months. It is, in effect, a futures mark ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘A wine’s visual cues shout, stamp, whistle and roar’

Disconcerting: I couldn’t forget this bottle for days afterwards. Still can’t. Back in August, wine critic Lin Liu MW (together with her partner Philippe Lejeune of Château de Chambert in Cahors) came to dinner, en route to a short holiday in Provence. One of the bottles Lin brought for us to try together was the 2018 Les Rocheuses, Parcelles No 5 et 6, from Château Le Rey in Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux. It came in a slope-shouldered bottle, not a classic Bordeaux bottle. We tried it with some R ...

Hugh Johnson: ‘I’ve formed a bond with Grillo and flirted with Verdicchio’

I’d like to say we took advantage of the lockdown and its related commotion to do a stock-take, explore new avenues, turn over intriguing stones, widen and deepen our drinking, taking careful notes as we went. Sadly, no. I won’t say we got stuck in a rut, but we did tend to stick with comfort wines – and “comfort”, in our case, means familiar. Regular readers of this quarterly column can probably guess the labels on the resulting empties. We have a wider range of comfort foods, I’m afraid, than ...

The word of the wine: Astringent

Said of a wine that is a bit harsh and rough on the palate. Astringency often appears in young red wines that are rich in tannins and need to be rounded out.