The Domaine de Bel Air of Haute Loire of Loire Valley

Domaine de Bel Air - Cuvée Riquette Pouilly-Fumé
The winery offers 7 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 274 of the estates of Loire Valley.
It is located in Haute Loire in the region of Loire Valley

The Domaine de Bel Air is one of the best wineries to follow in Haute Loire.. It offers 7 wines for sale in of Haute Loire to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Domaine de Bel Air wines

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

The top white wines of Domaine de Bel Air

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Domaine de Bel Air

How Domaine de Bel Air wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, shellfish or spicy food such as recipes of rabbit with hunter's sauce, creamy tomato squid or shrimp with curry express.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Domaine de Bel Air

On the nose the white wine of Domaine de Bel Air. often reveals types of flavors of grapefruit, stone fruit or floral and sometimes also flavors of spices, vegetal or microbio. In the mouth the white wine of Domaine de Bel Air. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Domaine de Bel Air

  • 2019With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.15/5
  • 2020With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.99/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.96/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.88/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Domaine de Bel Air.

  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Chenin Blanc
  • Chasselas

Discovering the wine region of Haute Loire

Haute Loire is an unofficial name for the wine-producing communes of the Loire Valley located upstream (South and east) from Touraine. It includes two of the Loire's most famous appellations - Sancerre and Pouilly-Fume - along with a number of lesser known appellations such as Orléans, Valencay, Quincy and Côtes du Forez. The concept of a "Haute Loire" sub-region is necessary because the appellations that make it up are not grouped by an administrative or historical region; their main commonality is their proximity to the Loire River. Most other French wine regions correspond closely to an administrative region or department (e.

g. Alsace, Burgundy, Champagne, Provence). There is indeed a department of the Loire, but it is hundreds of miles upstream from the heart of the Loire Vineyard. Ironically, it is home to two of the least known appellations in the Loire Valley: Côte Roannaise and Côtes du Forez.

Like nowhere else on the Loire, these two regions specialize in red and rosé wines made from Gamay. Their style of wine and their sandy, granitic soils mean that they have more in common with Beaujolais (just 50 km to the east) than with any other Loire appellation.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Domaine de Bel Air

Planning a wine route in the of Haute Loire? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Domaine de Bel Air.

Discover the grape variety: Chasselas

Chasselas rosé is a grape variety that originated in France. It produces a variety of grape used to make wine. However, it can also be found eating on our tables! This variety of vine is characterized by medium-sized bunches and medium-sized grapes. Chasselas rosé can be found in several vineyards: Alsace, South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Rhone Valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

News about Domaine de Bel Air and wines from the region

‘Goliath’ 27-litre Sine Qua Non wine uncorked for charity

A ‘Goliath’ 27-litre bottle of Sine Qua Non’s highly prized The Inaugural Syrah from the 2003 vintage provided the centrepiece for a charity event organised by The Legacy Cellar Foundation. Robert M. Parker Jr, the famous wine critic who retired from The Wine Advocate in 2019, donated the ‘unicorn’ bottle in order to help raise funds for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, which is marking its 60th anniversary. Held at a private residence in Bel Air on 14 May, 60 guests paid ...

Decanter magazine latest issue: March 2022

Inside the March 2022 issue of Decanter Magazine: FEATURES: New Spanish whites David Williams’ A to X guide to 10 key producers and wines in Spain’s developing white scene Making wine in Spain Self-confessed ‘nomadic winemaker’ Darren Smith on the irresistible allure of Spain Producer profile: Francisco Barona Driving tractors at 12, now making top Ribera del Duero. By Tim Atkin MW Vintage preview: northern Rhône 2020 Another hot year, but there is freshness and top quality to be found. Matt Wa ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘2021 has been the year of all the miseries’

How’s the weather been this year? Awful. ‘La nature m’écoeure’, one of my wine-growing friends posted on Facebook on 8 April, having been out to look at the frost-crippled shoots on his vines that morning: ‘Nature disgusts me’. It takes a lot to make a wine-grower feel that. He wasn’t alone. Jeremiads echo around the northern hemisphere as 2021 closes. It’s been the year of all the miseries. None suffered more horribly than the growers of Germany’s Ahr valley, where floodwaters caused by the fou ...

The word of the wine: Disgorging (champagne)

This is the evacuation of the deposit formed by the yeasts during the second fermentation in the bottle, by opening the bottle. The missing volume is completed with the liqueur de dosage - a mixture of wine and cane sugar - before the final cork is placed. For some years now, some producers have been replacing this sugar with rectified concentrated musts (concentrated grape juice) which give excellent results. A too recent dosage (less than three months) harms the gustatory harmony of the champagne.