The Domaine Andre Pigeat of Loire Valley

Domaine Andre Pigeat - Quincy
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 2377 of the estates of Loire Valley.
It is located in Loire Valley

The Domaine Andre Pigeat is one of the best wineries to follow in Vallée de la Loire.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Loire Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Domaine Andre Pigeat wines

Looking for the best Domaine Andre Pigeat wines in Loire Valley among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Domaine Andre Pigeat 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 Andre Pigeat wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Domaine Andre Pigeat

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Domaine Andre Pigeat

How Domaine Andre Pigeat wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or vegetarian such as recipes of marinated raw salmon ('gravad lax' in swedish), tagliatelle with scallops or summer tuna quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Domaine Andre Pigeat

On the nose the white wine of Domaine Andre Pigeat. often reveals types of flavors of tropical, tropical fruit.

The best vintages in the white wines of Domaine Andre Pigeat

  • 2018With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2016With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Domaine Andre Pigeat.

  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discovering the wine region of Loire Valley

The Loire Valley is a key wine region in western France. It follows the course of the Loire River on its Long journey through the heart of France, from the inland hills of the Auvergne to the plains of the French Atlantic coast near Nantes (Muscadet country). Important in terms of quantity and quality, the region produces large quantities (about 4 million h/l each year) of everyday wines, as well as some of France's greatest wines. Diversity is another of the region's major assets; the styles of wine produced here range from the light, tangy Muscadet to the Sweet, honeyed Bonnezeaux, the Sparkling whites of Vouvray and the juicy, Tannic reds of Chinon and Saumur.

It's quite telling that this brief overview of the region's wines doesn't even mention the Loire Valley's two most famous wines - Sancerre and Pouilly-Fume. White wines are clearly the strong point of the Loire Valley and represent the vast majority of production. A significant proportion of these are produced under PGI appellations, most commonly the IGP Loire (formerly Vin de Pays du Jardin de la France), which covers the whole region. The main white Grape varieties used for the production of white wines in the Loire Valley are Sauvignon Blanc, Chenin Blanc, Melon de Bourgogne and, more popular than the traditional, Chardonnay.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Domaine Andre Pigeat

Planning a wine route in the of Loire Valley? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Domaine Andre Pigeat.

Discover the grape variety: Floreal

A wine grape variety of the INRA-Resdur1 series with polygenic resistance (two genes for mildew and powdery mildew have been identified), resulting from an interspecific cross between Villaris and Mtp 3159-2-12 (for the latter, one of its parents is Vitis rotundifolia, which is resistant to Pierce's disease, mildew, grey rot, etc.). Little multiplied, it is registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties list A1.

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The word of the wine: Extra-dry

Champagne with between 12 and 20 grams of sugar (see dosage liqueur).