The Winery Azuré of Centre Loire of Loire Valley

Winery Azuré
The winery offers 5 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 717 of the estates of Loire Valley.
It is located in Centre Loire in the region of Loire Valley

The Winery Azuré is one of the best wineries to follow in Centre Loire.. It offers 5 wines for sale in of Centre Loire to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Azuré wines

Looking for the best Winery Azuré wines in Centre Loire among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Azuré 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 Azuré wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top pink wines of Winery Azuré

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Azuré

How Winery Azuré wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of roast beef with pepper, sloth pork loin or rabbit with cider and prunes.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Azuré

  • 2018With an average score of 4.30/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Azuré.

  • Cabernet Franc

Discovering the wine region of Centre Loire

The Centre-Loire sub-region is located in the Loire Valley region, southeast of the Paris Basin. Its surface area is difficult to determine and the vineyards are made up of plots that vary in Size and are isolated, but also of plots of several hundred hectares. On a limestone base, the Centre-Loire has at least four types of soil: the terres blanches, Deep brown calcareous soils, which give the wines firmness, vivacity and fullness; the caillotes, Hard limestone soils, which give the wines pleasure, tenderness in their youth and a characteristic fruitiness; the grillotes, of friable limestone from which the wines take notes of candied fruits and honey; and the chailloux, siliceous with fine and coarse elements (clays, silts and sands, gravels, and pebbles), giving the wines firmness, persistent aromas, a Spicy nuance and a note of gunflint The caillotes and grillottes are shallow, stony soils, which Warm up quickly in the spring and have good rainwater Runoff, resulting in early ripening of the grapes for the production of fine, Soft, fruity wines. The semi-continental climate with microclimatic variations is ideal for the Sauvignon grape variety which gives white wines a rare harmony and perfection, and also ideal for the Pinot Noir which produces little known but no less surprising red wines.

The Centre-Loire region has nine appellations but is particularly well known for its AOC Sancerre, Quincy, Reuilly and Menetou-Salon. These appellations include those from the Auvergne vineyards (Saint-Pourçain, Côte-Roannaise and Côtes-du-Forez).

The top white wines of Winery Azuré

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Azuré

How Winery Azuré wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, appetizers and snacks or lean fish such as recipes of pasta with scampi, bacon-gruyere-tomato cake or flounder fillets, lemon butter.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Azuré.

  • Muscadelle
  • Chenin Blanc

Discover the grape variety: Chenin blanc

It most certainly originates from the Anjou region and is registered in the official catalogue of wine grape varieties on the A1 list. It can also be found in South Africa, Australia, Argentina, Chile, the United States (California), New Zealand, etc. It is said to be a descendant of Savagnin and to have sauvignonasse as its second parent (Jean-Michel Boursiquot 2019). On the other hand, Chenin blanc is the half-brother of verdelho and sauvignon blanc and is the father of colombard.

The top red wines of Winery Azuré

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Azuré

How Winery Azuré wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef fillet in a crust, vegetable planter or rack of lamb with herbs.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Azuré

  • 2015With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.37/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.30/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Azuré.

  • Cabernet Franc
  • Pinot Noir

The word of the wine: Defect

Characteristic of a wine that is either aromatically deviant or unbalanced on the palate due to an excess or a lack of one or more flavors.

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Planning a wine route in the of Centre Loire? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Azuré.

Discover the grape variety: Muscadelle

Muscadelle white is a grape variety that originated in France (Bergerac). 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 bunches of medium size, and grapes of medium caliber. Muscadelle white can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Armagnac, Provence & Corsica, Rhone valley, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Languedoc & Roussillon.