Château FantouCotes du Lot Malbec
This wine generally goes well with poultry, beef or mature and hard cheese.
Food and wine pairings with Cotes du Lot Malbec
Pairings that work perfectly with Cotes du Lot Malbec
Original food and wine pairings with Cotes du Lot Malbec
The Cotes du Lot Malbec of Château Fantou matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, spicy food or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of kafta bil saniyeh (lebanese dish), red mullet, mackerel, tuna, salmon sushi or gratin with chard leaves.
Details and technical informations about Château Fantou's Cotes du Lot Malbec.
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.
Informations about the Château Fantou
The Château Fantou is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 8 wines for sale in the of Côtes du Lot to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Côtes du Lot
The wine region of Côtes du Lot is located in the region of Comté Tolosan of Vin de Pays of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Georges Vigouroux or the Château Lagrézette produce mainly wines pink, red and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Côtes du Lot are Malbec, Chardonnay and Merlot, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Côtes du Lot often reveals types of flavors of peach, stone fruit or cherry and sometimes also flavors of citrus, strawberries or melon.
The wine region of Vin de Pays
Vin de Pays (VDP), the French national equivalent of PGI (Protected Geographical Indication) at the European level, is a quality category of French wines, positioned between Vin de Table (VDT) and Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC). This layer of the French appellation system was initially introduced in September 1968 by the INAO, the official appellation authority. It underwent several early revisions in the 1970s, followed by substantial changes in September 2000 and again in 2009, when all existing VDT titles were automatically registered with the European Union as PGI. Producers retain the choice of using either the VDP or PGI titles on their labels, or both - in the form "IGP-Vin de Pays".
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The word of the wine: Passerillage
Concentration of the grape by drying out, under the influence of wind or sun, as opposed to botrytisation, which is the concentration obtained by the development of the "noble rot" for which Botrytis cinerea is responsible. The word is mainly used for sweet wines.