Domaine de La NoblaieLes Chiens - Chiens
Red wine
This wine generally goes well with pork, poultry or beef.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Les Chiens - Chiens of Domaine de La Noblaie in the region of Loire Valley often reveals types of flavors of cherry, oaky or earthy and sometimes also flavors of blackberry, minerality or plum.
Food and wine pairings with Les Chiens - Chiens
Pairings that work perfectly with Les Chiens - Chiens
Original food and wine pairings with Les Chiens - Chiens
The Les Chiens - Chiens of Domaine de La Noblaie matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of pork shoulder with mustard, rougail sausage or duck breast with spices, roasted figs with honey and port.
Details and technical informations about Domaine de La Noblaie's Les Chiens - Chiens.
Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc
Supple, fragrant reds with fine tannins and vibrant freshness, showing raspberry, violet, green pepper, pencil lead and gentle spice aromas. Star of the Loire as a single variety (Chinon, Bourgueil, Saumur-Champigny) and of the right bank of Bordeaux in blends (Cheval Blanc at 60%). Also in semi-dry Anjou rosés. A historic Bordeaux variety, parent of Cabernet-Sauvignon, Merlot and Carmenère.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Les Chiens - Chiens from Domaine de La Noblaie are 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014 and 2011.
Informations about the Domaine de La Noblaie
The Domaine de La Noblaie is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 12 wines for sale in the of Chinon to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Chinon
Northern limit of Cabernet Franc in France on the south bank of the Loire in Touraine: velvety, balanced reds with aromas of strawberry, raspberry, cherry, blackcurrant and sweet spices (vanilla, cinnamon), supple tannins and digestible freshness. Light, fruity wines from gravel soils, more structured and mineral tuffeau wines suited to ageing. Also lively rosés and rare Chenin whites. Touraine AOC west of Tours, one of France's northernmost red appellations, from everyday to age-worthy bottles.
The wine region of Loire Valley
Kingdom of lively, dry whites and fine sparklers. Mineral, taut Sauvignon Blanc (Sancerre, Pouilly-Fumé) with citrus and gunflint notes. Multiform Chenin Blanc (Vouvray, Savennières, Layon): straight dry, floral off-dry or noble sweet honey-quince. Saline, iodised Muscadet (Melon B.
The word of the wine: Removal of shoes
In the spring, this operation consists of removing the mound of earth formed at the foot of the vines by ploughing between the rows in the autumn.
