The Winery Eschenauer of Libournais of Bordeaux

Winery Eschenauer
The winery offers 86 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
This estate is part of the Grands Chais de France (Groupe GCF).
It is ranked in the top 6063 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Libournais in the region of Bordeaux

The Winery Eschenauer is one of the best wineries to follow in Libournais.. It offers 86 wines for sale in of Libournais to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Eschenauer wines

Looking for the best Winery Eschenauer wines in Libournais among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Eschenauer 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 Winery Eschenauer wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Eschenauer

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Eschenauer

How Winery Eschenauer wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of homemade italian lasagna, blanquette of veal in pickle sauce or duck and peach brochettes.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Eschenauer

  • 2017With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Eschenauer.

  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Malbec
  • Petit Verdot

Discovering the wine region of Libournais

Rich in world-renowned wines, such as Saint-Emilion Grands Crus and Bordeaux/libournais/pomerol">Pomerol, the Libourne region Lies on the right bank of the Dordogne, on the edge of the Périgord. The region takes its name from the port city of Libourne, where many merchants from the Correze settled in the early 19th century. But its jewel is the small medieval city of Saint-Emilion, listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site and one of the most famous showcases of the Bordeaux wine region. The region is very homogeneous due to its hilly landscapes, its geology (predominantly limestone subsoil), the concentration of vineyards and the importance of family-run, small or medium-sized estates, which contrast with the large Medoc-type estates.

The Libournais is also Distinguished by its Grape variety dominated by Merlot, which gives Finesse, roundness and fruitiness to the red wines and allows them to age well, even if they generally Open up more quickly than those of appellations dominated by Cabernet Sauvignon. .

The top sweet wines of Winery Eschenauer

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Eschenauer

How Winery Eschenauer wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of mature and hard cheese, fruity desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of pasta gratin with mortau sausage, the coughing cat's apple crumble or chicken cutlets with roquefort cheese.

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Eschenauer

Planning a wine route in the of Libournais? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Eschenauer.

Discover the grape variety: Malbec

Malbec, a high-yielding red grape variety, produces tannic and colourful wines. It is produced in different wine-growing regions and changes its name according to the grape variety. Called Auxerrois in Cahors, Malbec in Bordeaux, it is also known as Côt. 6,000 hectares of the Malbec grape are grown in France (in decline since the 1950s). Malbec is also very successful in Argentina. The country has become the world's leading producer of Malbec and offers wines with great potential.