The Domaine du Mage is one of the world's great estates. It offers 13 wines for sale in of Gascogne to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Domaine du Mage wines in Gascogne among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Domaine du Mage 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 du Mage wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Domaine du Mage wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of endives with ham (improved), cucumber pie or phad thai (thai style fried noodles).
On the nose the white wine of Domaine du Mage. often reveals types of flavors of citrus, tree fruit or citrus fruit.
Between the Landes forest, the Garonne and the Pyrenees, the Gascony hillsides cover the Gers dePartment and part of the Landes and Lot-et-Garonne departments. The vineyards occupy the same area as Armagnac, a brandy still produced in the region, but whose volumes have declined in favour of vins de pays (now PGI). Under the influence of a mild oceanic Climate, it is fairly wet in the west, drier in the east, especially in summer. In the west, the subsoil of tawny sands is of marine origin, covered with boulbènes; in the east, it gradually gives way to molasse, a rock resulting from the erosion of the Pyrenees.
The soils are either stony and chalky (peyrusquets) or clayey and Deep (terrefort), retaining water well. The Condom region, the driest, has its own name (Condomois). The main Grape varieties cultivated are white: Colombard and Ugni blanc, the varieties of armagnac. Generally associated, sometimes completed by Sauvignon and Chardonnay, they give lively white wines with an exuberant fruitiness.
How Domaine du Mage wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry such as recipes of pork tongue with bacon and onions, sauté of lamb with curry or royal couscous (lamb, chicken, merguez).
On the nose the red wine of Domaine du Mage. often reveals types of flavors of oaky, raspberry or non oak and sometimes also flavors of oak, red fruit or black fruit.
Ugni blanc is a grape variety originating from Italy. It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by large bunches and small to medium sized grapes. Ugni blanc can be found in many vineyards: South West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Rhone valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Armagnac, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.
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Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.
