Winery Drouet FréresLes Barbottes Sauvignon Touraine
White wine
This wine generally goes well with vegetarian, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish.
Food and wine pairings with Les Barbottes Sauvignon Touraine
Pairings that work perfectly with Les Barbottes Sauvignon Touraine
Original food and wine pairings with Les Barbottes Sauvignon Touraine
The Les Barbottes Sauvignon Touraine of Winery Drouet Fréres matches generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or vegetarian such as recipes of codfish portuguese style, samoussa 3 reunionese cheeses or ham and comté quiche.
Details and technical informations about Winery Drouet Fréres's Les Barbottes Sauvignon Touraine.
Discover the grape variety: Picolit noir
A very old grape variety, which almost disappeared, cultivated for a very long time in the north-east of Italy, more precisely in the region of Friuli bordering with Aurelia and Slovenia. It can be found in Italy, but also in Spain, ... in France it is completely unknown. Note that it is not related to the white picolit.
Informations about the Winery Drouet Fréres
The Winery Drouet Fréres is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 113 wines for sale in the of Touraine to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Touraine
The wine region of Touraine is located in the region of Centre Loire of Loire Valley of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Famille Bougrier or the Domaine Joel Delaunay produce mainly wines white, red and sparkling. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Touraine are Cabernet franc, Gamay noir and Chenin blanc, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Touraine often reveals types of flavors of grapefruit, tar or kiwi and sometimes also flavors of lime zest, lychee or asparagus.
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: Glycerol
Alcohol very present in wine (after ethyl alcohol) and which reinforces its unctuousness and fatty sensation.
