Domaine FontanelMuscat de Rivesaltes
Natural sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with spicy food and sweet desserts.
Food and wine pairings with Muscat de Rivesaltes
Pairings that work perfectly with Muscat de Rivesaltes
Original food and wine pairings with Muscat de Rivesaltes
The Muscat de Rivesaltes of Domaine Fontanel matches generally quite well with dishes of mature and hard cheese, blue cheese or aperitif such as recipes of chicken breast franc comtoise, light tart with endives and roquefort cheese or dried tomato, feta and green olive cake.
Details and technical informations about Domaine Fontanel's Muscat de Rivesaltes.
Discover the grape variety: Babic
This is an old indigenous variety that has been cultivated for a long time in Croatia, especially in central and southern Dalmatia. It can also be found in Hungary, in the former Yugoslavia to which Croatia belonged... in France it is almost unknown. It should be noted that it would be related with the dobricic and thus also with the plavac mali its son. Babic should not be confused with babica crni, another Croatian black grape variety.
Informations about the Domaine Fontanel
The Domaine Fontanel is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 21 wines for sale in the of Muscat de Rivesaltes to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Muscat de Rivesaltes
The wine region of Muscat de Rivesaltes is located in the region of Rivesaltes of Languedoc-Roussillon of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Boudau or the Domaine Lafage produce mainly wines natural sweet, sweet and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Muscat de Rivesaltes are Melon et Muscadelle, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Muscat de Rivesaltes often reveals types of flavors of earth, spices or melon and sometimes also flavors of mango, dried apricot or non oak.
The wine region of Languedoc-Roussillon
Languedoc (formerly Coteaux du Languedoc) is a key appellation used in the Languedoc-Roussillon wine region of southern France. It covers Dry table wines of all three colors (red, white and rosé) from the entire region, but leaves Sweet and Sparkling wines to other more specialized appellations. About 75% of all Languedoc wines are red, with the remaining 25% split roughly down the middle between whites and rosés. The appellation covers most of the Languedoc region and almost a third of all the vineyards in France.
The word of the wine: Sensory analysis
Technical name of the tasting.
