Château FontvertLe Mourre Nègre
Red wine
This wine generally goes well with beef, lamb or mature and hard cheese.
Food and wine pairings with Le Mourre Nègre
Pairings that work perfectly with Le Mourre Nègre
Original food and wine pairings with Le Mourre Nègre
The Le Mourre Nègre of Château Fontvert matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of stuffed peppers, mansaf, or jordanian lamb (jordan) or banh mi sandwich.
Details and technical informations about Château Fontvert's Le Mourre Nègre.
Discover the grape variety: Mourvèdre
Powerful, deep reds with firm tannins and dense texture, showing aromas of blackberry, leather, garrigue, black pepper, liquorice and animal notes (game, forest floor) with age. Star of Bandol AOC as a single variety and pillar of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Gigondas and Costières blends. Also in GSM in Languedoc and Australia. A late-ripening variety of Spanish origin (Mataró/Monastrell).
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Le Mourre Nègre from Château Fontvert are 2012, 2015, 2010
Informations about the Château Fontvert
The Château Fontvert is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 24 wines for sale in the of Rhone Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Rhone Valley
France's 2nd-largest AOC vineyard, two complementary worlds. Northern: pure Syrah in signature reds (Côte-Rôtie, Hermitage, Cornas), deep and peppery with blackberry, violet, black olive and smoked bacon notes, exceptional ageing. Opulent Viognier whites (Condrieu, apricot, flowers) and ample Marsanne-Roussanne. Southern: sun-soaked Grenache blends at Châteauneuf, Gigondas, Vacqueyras (candied fruit, garrigue).
The word of the wine: Soft
Sweet wine containing between 30 and 50 grams of residual sugar. A sweet wine is made from very ripe grapes but without being affected by botrytis cinerea and without being raisined. This term can also be applied to a dry wine that is smooth and fat in the mouth.
