Domaine des RainettesBourgueil
Red wine
This wine generally goes well with pork, poultry or beef.
Food and wine pairings with Bourgueil
Pairings that work perfectly with Bourgueil
Original food and wine pairings with Bourgueil
The Bourgueil of Domaine des Rainettes matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of venison leg in casserole, rice with sausage meat and tomatoes or duck breast with red fruits.
Details and technical informations about Domaine des Rainettes's Bourgueil.
Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc
Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Bourgueil from Domaine des Rainettes are 2012, 2017, 2018, 2016 and 2014.
Informations about the Domaine des Rainettes
The Domaine des Rainettes is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 1 wines for sale in the of Loire Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Loire Valley
The Loire Valley is a key wine region in western France. It follows the course of the Loire River on its Long journey through the heart of France, from the inland hills of the Auvergne to the plains of the French Atlantic coast near Nantes (Muscadet country). Important in terms of quantity and quality, the region produces large quantities (about 4 million h/l each year) of everyday wines, as well as some of France's greatest wines. Diversity is another of the region's major assets; the styles of wine produced here range from the light, tangy Muscadet to the Sweet, honeyed Bonnezeaux, the Sparkling whites of Vouvray and the juicy, Tannic reds of Chinon and Saumur.
The word of the wine: Hat
Solid part (marc), composed of pips and skins (sometimes of the stalk), which forms at the top of the tank during fermentation. The pigeage consists in breaking this cap to put back in suspension these elements and to favour the exchanges between the juice and the skins.
