Winery Famille GourjonChâteau Font Barrièle Les Vignes d'Heloïse Costières-de-Nîmes Blanc
White wine
This wine generally goes well with poultry, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish.
Food and wine pairings with Château Font Barrièle Les Vignes d'Heloïse Costières-de-Nîmes Blanc
Pairings that work perfectly with Château Font Barrièle Les Vignes d'Heloïse Costières-de-Nîmes Blanc
Original food and wine pairings with Château Font Barrièle Les Vignes d'Heloïse Costières-de-Nîmes Blanc
The Château Font Barrièle Les Vignes d'Heloïse Costières-de-Nîmes Blanc of Winery Famille Gourjon matches generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or poultry such as recipes of skate with vinegar and capers, carri of shrimps with chillies or nachos (chicken).
Details and technical informations about Winery Famille Gourjon's Château Font Barrièle Les Vignes d'Heloïse Costières-de-Nîmes Blanc.
Discover the grape variety: Roussanne
Roussane is a white grape variety, planted on an area of more than 700 ha. Originally from Montélimar, it is also found in Savoie, Languedoc and Roussillon, and grows very well in calcareous, poor, stony soil. It prefers to be pruned short. Roussane is also called fromenteau, barbin or bergeron. The young leaves are bubbled with fine down. When adult, they become thicker. It flowers in June and matures in mid-September. The grapes are cylindrical in shape, the berries are small and turn red when ripe, and the wine produced from pure Roussane is of extraordinary quality. It has a delicate aroma reminiscent of coffee, honeysuckle, iris and peony. The taste of this wine improves with age. It is part of the blend of the appellations Vin-de-Savoie, Côtes-du-Vallée du Rhône or Châteauneuf-du-Pape.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Château Font Barrièle Les Vignes d'Heloïse Costières-de-Nîmes Blanc from Winery Famille Gourjon are 2018, 2017
Informations about the Winery Famille Gourjon
The Winery Famille Gourjon is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 37 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.
The word of the wine: Reims Mountain
Between Épernay and Reims, a large limestone massif with varied soils and exposure where pinot noir reigns supreme. Ambonnay, Bouzy, Verzenay, Verzy, etc., are equivalent to the Burgundian Gevrey-Chambertin and Vosne-Romanée. There are also great Chardonnays, which are rarer (Mailly, Marmery, Trépail, Villers).
