The Domaine Clos du Château Choully of Genève

Domaine Clos du Château Choully - Cabernet Sauvignon
The winery offers 20 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 153 of the estates of Genève.
It is located in Genève

The Domaine Clos du Château Choully is one of the best wineries to follow in Genève.. It offers 20 wines for sale in of Genève to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Domaine Clos du Château Choully wines

Looking for the best Domaine Clos du Château Choully wines in Genève among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Domaine Clos du Château Choully 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 Clos du Château Choully wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Domaine Clos du Château Choully

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Domaine Clos du Château Choully

How Domaine Clos du Château Choully wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of romazava (madagascar), dad's lamb mouse or traditional hungarian goulash.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Domaine Clos du Château Choully

In the mouth the red wine of Domaine Clos du Château Choully. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Domaine Clos du Château Choully

  • 2018With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2013With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 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 Domaine Clos du Château Choully.

  • Garanoir
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Gamaret
  • Merlot
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Pinot Noir

Discovering the wine region of Genève

Geneva, at the western end of Lac Léman (Lake Geneva), is the second-largest city in Switzerland and the country's third-largest wine producing canton after Valais and Vaud. Although not famously associated with wine, the city and its environs are home to numerous Vineyards and wineries, some within just a few miles of the Center. At 1,400 hectares (3,500 acres), Geneva accounts for 10 percent of the country's vineyard area. Gamay is the predominant variety here, with the Swiss workhorse Chasselas (often labelled "Fendant") and Pinot Noir taking second and third place respectively.

Other popular regional grapes include the hardy, oft-blended combination of Gamaret and Garanoir as well as the more international Merlot and Chardonnay. The red-white split is 56 percent in favor of red. The canton is home to numerous (around 95) small, generally family-run, wineries often with a large number of Varietal wines (albeit in small quantities). While many producers are clustered around the larger viticultural areas of Dardagny, Satigny, Peissy, and Soral, wineries are dotted around the city, some a stone's throw from the French border nearby.

The region also boasts 22 Premier Cru appellations, including Coteau de Bossy, Grand Carraz and Rougemont. Broadly speaking, the vineyards around Geneva are separated into three officially named areas: the Right Bank (790 hectares/1,900 acres), known as Mandement, encompassing the large Satigny and Dardagny zones as well as vineyards further northeast in Collex-Bossy and Céligny (towards the wider Vaud area on the "right bank" of the lake); Entre Arve et Lac (283 hectares/699 acres), nominally on the Left Bank of the Rhône river and the lake, this encompasses the Southeastern quadrant of the canton (south of the lake and east of the Arve river that flows northwest into the Rhône, joining it in the city) out towards the French side of the lake; it forms a Rough triangle between the towns of Cologny, Anières and Jussy; Entre Arve et Rhône (270 hectares/660 acres), on the western side of the city, including the areas of Lully, Veyrier, Soral and Laconnex The region also counts just over 120 hectares (300 acres) of vineyard officially in France but worked by Genevan viticulturists for decades. These vineyards, in what is called the "zone franche" ("Open zone"), are appended to the Geneva appellation. The Climate in Geneva is moderated significantly by the presence of the lake, which prevents summer temperatures from rising dramatically and slows the effects of frost and snow in winter.

The top white wines of Domaine Clos du Château Choully

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Domaine Clos du Château Choully

How Domaine Clos du Château Choully wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or vegetarian such as recipes of pan bagnat, paella de marisco (seafood paella) or zucchini and goat cheese quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Domaine Clos du Château Choully

In the mouth the white wine of Domaine Clos du Château Choully. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Domaine Clos du Château Choully

  • 2014With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Domaine Clos du Château Choully.

  • Aligoté
  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Chasselas
  • Viognier

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Domaine Clos du Château Choully

Planning a wine route in the of Genève? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Domaine Clos du Château Choully.

Discover the grape variety: Viognier

White Viognier is a grape variety that originated in France (Rhone Valley). 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 small bunches, and grapes of small size. White Viognier can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone Valley, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Savoie & Bugey, Provence & Corsica, Loire Valley, Beaujolais.

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