The Domaine de la Combe au Loup is one of the best wineries to follow in Beaujolais.. It offers 6 wines for sale in of Beaujolais to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Domaine de la Combe au Loup wines in Beaujolais among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Domaine de la Combe au Loup 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 la Combe au Loup wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Domaine de la Combe au Loup wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of ham and cheese omelette, coulibiac of salmon or quiche with leeks and fresh salmon from flo.
Beaujolais is an important wine region in eastern France, famous for its vibrant, Fruity red wines made from Gamay. It is located immediately South of Burgundy, of which it is sometimes considered a Part, although it is in the administrative region of Rhône. The extensive plantings of Gamay in this region make Beaujolais one of the few regions in the world that is so concentrated on a single Grape variety. Pinot Noir is used in small quantities in red and rosé wines, but in the name of regional identity, it is being phased out and will only be allowed until the 2015 harvest.
Although best known for its red wines, the region also produces white Beaujolais Blanc, from Chardonnay and Aligote. These two white wine varieties are also sometimes used in local red wines, in which they can make up to 15% of the Final blend. There are several forms of Beaujolais red wine: standard Beaujolais (including Beaujolais Supérieur), Beaujolais Villages and the Young, characterful Beaujolais Nouveau. The highest quality wines of the region are those of the ten Beaujolais crus - ten wine regions Long recognized as the best in the region.
How Domaine de la Combe au Loup wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef such as recipes of homemade italian lasagna.
Chenin, also known as pinot de la Loire Valley (pineau), is the flagship grape variety of the Loire Valley. It would have found its first origins in Anjou where it would have been cultivated by the monks of the Abbey of Saint-Maur located between Angers and Saumur since the 6th century. chenin is a great white grape variety which likes particularly the chalky soils called here stones of tufa which were used for the construction of the castles of the Loire Valley. Its bunches are medium-sized, fairly compact and its berries are more or less small. It is an early variety, which resists well to diseases. Chenin has the particularity of being able to participate as well in the elaboration of dry white wines as of sweet white wines or sparkling wines. Perfectly structured by the acidity, elegant, with a complex nose and aromas of yellow fruits, dry fruits, citrus fruits, white flowers, honey... the wine resulting from the chenin is rather lively and nervous, which allows him a good potential of guard. Chenin covers about 10,000 hectares in France, and is very productive in South Africa where it covers more than 26,000 hectares.
How Domaine de la Combe au Loup wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of pasta with chicken, peppers and mushrooms, roast veal with chanterelles and cream or endives with ham (improved).
On the nose the red wine of Domaine de la Combe au Loup. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit, cherry or plum and sometimes also flavors of raspberry, earth or oak. In the mouth the red wine of Domaine de la Combe au Loup. is a with a nice freshness.
Sweet wine containing between 30 and 50 grams of residual sugar. A sweet wine is made from very ripe grapes but without being affected by botrytis cinerea and without being raisined. This term can also be applied to a dry wine that is smooth and fat in the mouth.
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Interspecific cross between Freiburg 4-61 (23-416 Joannès-Seyve x pinot noir) and Bronner made in 1987 by Norbert Becker of the Freiburg Research Institute in Germany. It has the particularity of having only one gene for resistance to mildew and powdery mildew. It can be found in Germany, but also in Switzerland, Belgium, ... and in France.
