The Winery Bernard Defaix of Chablis of Burgundy

Winery Bernard Defaix - Bourgogne Aligoté
The winery offers 26 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
This estate is part of the Vignerons de Nature.
It is ranked in the top 44 of the estates of Burgundy.
It is located in Chablis in the region of Burgundy

The Winery Bernard Defaix is one of the world's great estates. It offers 26 wines for sale in of Chablis to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Bernard Defaix wines

Looking for the best Winery Bernard Defaix wines in Chablis among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Bernard Defaix 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 Winery Bernard Defaix wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Bernard Defaix

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Bernard Defaix

How Winery Bernard Defaix wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of macaroni and angel hair gratin, salmon and parmesan quiche without pastry or samoussa 3 reunionese cheeses.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Bernard Defaix

On the nose the white wine of Winery Bernard Defaix. often reveals types of flavors of citrus, slate or white peach and sometimes also flavors of cheese, flint or grass. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Bernard Defaix. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Bernard Defaix

  • 2006With an average score of 4.26/5
  • 2009With an average score of 4.07/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.92/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.89/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.89/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Bernard Defaix.

  • Chardonnay
  • Aligoté
  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discovering the wine region of Chablis

Chablis is a historic town and wine region in NorthCentralFrance. It produces light, Dry white wines, renowned for their minerality and lively Acidity. AOC Chablis wines are produced exclusively from the Chardonnay grape. The wines of Chablis are made in a rather different style from those produced elsewhere in Burgundy.

They are drier and fresher, rather than heavier and more Aromatic. Most basic Chablis is fermented and aged in stainless steel, with the use of oak barrels being more common for the top wines, although large used barrels are more likely to be used than New ones, and the wines spend less time in them than in Côte d'Or. The town and its vineyards are located a considerable distance (over 100 kilometers) northwest of the main wine regions of Burgundy, from the Côte de Nuits to the Maconnais. They are actually closer to Sancerre (Loire) and Les Riceys (southern Champagne) and to the city of Paris.

The top red wines of Winery Bernard Defaix

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Bernard Defaix

How Winery Bernard Defaix wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of veal shank with mushrooms, pasta with veal stock sauce or duck parmentier.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Bernard Defaix

On the nose the red wine of Winery Bernard Defaix. often reveals types of flavors of iron, mushroom or red fruit and sometimes also flavors of spices, oak or microbio. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Bernard Defaix. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Bernard Defaix

  • 2013With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Bernard Defaix.

  • Pinot Noir

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Pinot noir is an important red grape variety in Burgundy and Champagne, and its reputation is well known! Great wines such as the Domaine de la Romanée Conti elaborate their wines from this famous grape variety, and make it a great variety. When properly vinified, pinot noit produces red wines of great finesse, with a wide range of aromas depending on its advancement (fruit, undergrowth, leather). it is also the only red grape variety authorized in Alsace. Pinot Noir is not easily cultivated beyond our borders, although it has enjoyed some success in Oregon, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

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Discover the grape variety: Aligoté

Aligoté is an ancient Burgundian grape variety (it has different names depending on the region in which it is grown: griset blanc in Beaune, giboudot blanc in the Chalonnais or troyen blanc in the Aube), mainly used in the production of Bourgogne-Aligoté, Bouzeron and Crémant-de-Bourgogne.aligoté is a medium-fine white grape variety, quite productive, which gives clear, acidic, fresh and light white wines. An anecdote often says that it was a member of the clergy named Kir who gave it its letters of nobility by adding it to blackcurrant cream to prepare an aperitif.produced on more than 1,600 hectares in Burgundy, aligoté has also been exported. It is also cultivated in Eastern Europe (Ukraine, Romania), California, Canada and Chile, representing more than 20,000 hectares in the world.

News about Winery Bernard Defaix and wines from the region

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