The Winery Fleur de Roche is one of the world's great estates. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Gascogne to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Fleur de Roche wines in Gascogne among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Fleur de Roche 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 Fleur de Roche wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Fleur de Roche wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, spicy food or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of celine's version of moussaka (5th meeting), pakistani rice (biryani) or endive and beetroot salad with lemon cream.
On the nose the red wine of Winery Fleur de Roche. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, oaky or smoke and sometimes also flavors of earthy, blackberry or plum.
Between the Landes forest, the Garonne and the Pyrenees, the Gascony hillsides cover the Gers dePartment and part of the Landes and Lot-et-Garonne departments. The vineyards occupy the same area as Armagnac, a brandy still produced in the region, but whose volumes have declined in favour of vins de pays (now PGI). Under the influence of a mild oceanic Climate, it is fairly wet in the west, drier in the east, especially in summer. In the west, the subsoil of tawny sands is of marine origin, covered with boulbènes; in the east, it gradually gives way to molasse, a rock resulting from the erosion of the Pyrenees.
The soils are either stony and chalky (peyrusquets) or clayey and Deep (terrefort), retaining water well. The Condom region, the driest, has its own name (Condomois). The main Grape varieties cultivated are white: Colombard and Ugni blanc, the varieties of armagnac. Generally associated, sometimes completed by Sauvignon and Chardonnay, they give lively white wines with an exuberant fruitiness.
How Winery Fleur de Roche wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or vegetarian such as recipes of poached salmon in coconut milk with curry, chicken with scampi for christmas or quiche with bacon and gruyère cheese.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Fleur de Roche. often reveals types of flavors of grapefruit, citrus or vegetal and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit.
Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.
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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.
