Domaine GaudardQuarts de Chaume
Sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with pork, poultry or beef.
Food and wine pairings with Quarts de Chaume
Pairings that work perfectly with Quarts de Chaume
Original food and wine pairings with Quarts de Chaume
The Quarts de Chaume of Domaine Gaudard matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of navarin of the sea da gigi, endives with ham (improved) or duck pot au feu.
Details and technical informations about Domaine Gaudard's Quarts de Chaume.
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
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Informations about the Domaine Gaudard
The Domaine Gaudard is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 18 wines for sale in the of Quarts de Chaume to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Quarts de Chaume
The only Grand Cru of the Loire Valley (2011, ~40 ha in Anjou-Layon): 100% Chenin as extraordinarily complex, multi-decade sweet wines. Golden to old-gold robe, aromas of candied fruit, honey, quince and saffron notes. Successive manual tries of botrytised bunches (Botrytis cinerea), minimum 298 g/L sugar before fermentation, maximum yield 20 hl/ha. South-facing slope above morning mists of the Layon river — exceptional botrytis on draining Brioverian schists.
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: Destemming
Action consisting in separating the grapes from the stalk before vinification. The stalk, the woody part of the bunch, may give the wine an unpleasant vegetal character.
