Winery Duprat FrèresCuvée Selection Comte des Landes Rouge
Red wine
This wine generally goes well with
Details and technical informations about Winery Duprat Frères's Cuvée Selection Comte des Landes Rouge.
Discover the grape variety: Folle blanche
As its name suggests, the folle blanche is a white grape variety. Originally from the west of France, it was used to make Cognac and Armagnac brandies as early as the 17th century and was renowned for its finesse and fragrant nose. Replaced by Ugni Blanc following the phylloxera invasion, the folle blanche is now grown in small quantities. It is a grape variety with juicy, sweet, medium-sized bunches and berries with a white/green skin. Its worst enemy is grey rot. As it is an early variety and its buds come out early, it is particularly afraid of spring frosts. It likes short pruning, a method that limits the production of grapes but increases their quality. It also prefers mineral-rich soils, and its vineyards cover about 3,000 hectares. It is used in the production of the AOC Gros-plant du Pays nantais to produce a lively white wine with little alcohol but marked acidity.
Last vintages of this wine
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Informations about the Winery Duprat Frères
The Winery Duprat Frères is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 41 wines for sale in the of Landes to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Landes
The wine region of Landes is located in the region of Comté Tolosan of Vin de Pays of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Laballe or the Domaine Laballe produce mainly wines sweet, red and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Landes are Cabernet franc, Tannat and Cabernet-Sauvignon, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Landes often reveals types of flavors of grapefruit, tropical or peach and sometimes also flavors of minerality, earth or vegetal.
The wine region of Comté Tolosan
Comte Tolosan is a PGI title that covers wines produced in a large area of Southwestern France. The PGI basin encompasses 12 administrative dePartments and is home to a wide range of appellations d'origine contrôlée (AOC) such as Jurançon, Cahors and Armagnac. The IGP label provides a geographical classification for wines that are not classified for AOC level appellations due to Grape variety or winemaking style. The region is part of the Aquitaine basin - the plains that lie between the Pyrenees, the Massif Central and the Atlantic Ocean to the west.
The word of the wine: Oenologist
Specialist in wine-making techniques. It is a profession and not a passion: one can be an oenophile without being an oenologist (and the opposite too!). Formerly attached to the Faculty of Pharmacy, oenology studies have become independent and have their own university course. Learning to make wine requires a good chemical background but also, increasingly, a good knowledge of the plant. Some oenologists work in laboratories (analysis). Others, the consulting oenologists, work directly in the properties.
