Winery Famille Gourjon Château Font Barrièle Les Vignes d'Heloïse Costières-de-Nîmes Rouge
Red wine
In the mouth this red wine is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
This wine generally goes well with beef, game (deer, venison) or lamb.
Taste structure of the Château Font Barrièle Les Vignes d'Heloïse Costières-de-Nîmes Rouge from the Winery Famille Gourjon
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Smooth
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In the mouth the Château Font Barrièle Les Vignes d'Heloïse Costières-de-Nîmes Rouge of Winery Famille Gourjon in the region of Rhone Valley is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
Food and wine pairings with Château Font Barrièle Les Vignes d'Heloïse Costières-de-Nîmes Rouge
Pairings that work perfectly with Château Font Barrièle Les Vignes d'Heloïse Costières-de-Nîmes Rouge
Original food and wine pairings with Château Font Barrièle Les Vignes d'Heloïse Costières-de-Nîmes Rouge
The Château Font Barrièle Les Vignes d'Heloïse Costières-de-Nîmes Rouge of Winery Famille Gourjon matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of wild boar stew in burgundy style, lamb epigram in spicy sauce or deer stew.
Details and technical informations about Winery Famille Gourjon's Château Font Barrièle Les Vignes d'Heloïse Costières-de-Nîmes Rouge.
Discover the grape variety: Marselan
Marselan noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Languedoc). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by large bunches and small grapes. Marselan noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Languedoc & Roussillon, Rhone valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Château Font Barrièle Les Vignes d'Heloïse Costières-de-Nîmes Rouge from Winery Famille Gourjon are 2012, 2009, 2007
Informations about the Winery Famille Gourjon
The Winery Famille Gourjon is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 24 wines for sale in the of Costières-de-Nîmes to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Costières-de-Nîmes
The wine region of Costières-de-Nîmes is located in the region of Rhône méridional of Rhone Valley of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Scamandre or the Château d'Or et de Gueules produce mainly wines red, pink and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Costières-de-Nîmes are Mourvèdre, Roussanne and Viognier, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Costières-de-Nîmes often reveals types of flavors of non oak, thyme or raisin and sometimes also flavors of clove, cocoa or coffee.
The wine region of Rhone Valley
The Rhone Valley is a key wine-producing region in Southeastern France. It follows the North-south course of the Rhône for nearly 240 km, from Lyon to the Rhône delta (Bouches-du-Rhône), near the Mediterranean coast. The Length of the valley means that Rhône wines are the product of a wide variety of soil types and mesoclimates. The viticultural areas of the region cover such a distance that there is a widely accepted division between its northern and southern parts.
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The word of the wine: Liquid
Sweet wine containing more than 50 grams of residual sugar per liter. Sweet wines are made from grapes often affected by botrytis cinerea and concentrated either by passerillage (drying of the grapes on the vine stock), or after the harvest (straw wines), or by the cold (ice wines).
