The Winery La Tour Charlemagne of Médoc of Bordeaux

Winery La Tour Charlemagne
Only one wine is currently referenced in this domain
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is ranked in the top 3099 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Médoc in the region of Bordeaux

The Winery La Tour Charlemagne is one of the best wineries to follow in Médoc.. It offers 1 wines for sale in of Médoc to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery La Tour Charlemagne wines

Looking for the best Winery La Tour Charlemagne wines in Médoc among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery La Tour Charlemagne 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 La Tour Charlemagne wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery La Tour Charlemagne

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery La Tour Charlemagne

How Winery La Tour Charlemagne wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of melt-in-the-mouth pork tenderloin casserole, lamb tagine with prunes and almonds or rabbit terrine in the style of a grandmother (pas de calais).

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery La Tour Charlemagne

  • 2011With an average score of 3.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery La Tour Charlemagne.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon

Discovering the wine region of Médoc

Bordeaux's Médoc is an area of coastal lagoons, sand dunes and pine forests located on the 45th parallel. It is also a global wine powerhouse, and home to four of the world's most prestigious wine villages: Pauillac, Margaux, Saint-Estèphe and Saint-Julien. The estates located in these villages produce some of the most expensive bottles in the world. The region has also provided all but one of the châteaux included in the official 1855 Bordeaux wine classification (Haut-Brion).

The Médoc vineyards cover about 16,000 hectares, including the various small appellations. Approximately 5500 hectares of vines are classified for the production of AOC/AOP Médoc wines. Wedged between the Atlantic coast and the wide Gironde estuary, the Médoc is in fact a peninsula. It stretches 80 kilometres (50 miles) to the northwest, from the city of Bordeaux to the Pointe de Grave.

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Discover the grape variety: Gouget noir

This grape variety was cultivated in the Montluçonnaise region (Allier) since the origin of the vineyards in this region. For a long time it was confused with Gougean de l'Allier, but genetic analyses show that it comes from a mutation of Gouais blanc, also called Gouget blanc. Gouget noir is practically on the verge of extinction, although it is listed in the Official Catalogue of Wine Grape Varieties, list A1. It was therefore very well known in the wine-growing centre of France but totally absent from other French regions and abroad.

News about Winery La Tour Charlemagne and wines from the region

Louis-Fabrice Latour: Obituary

Latour was the 11th generation of his family to lead Maison Louis Latour (and the seventh named Louis Latour). The house of Latour was formally founded in 1797, although the roots go back to the first vineyards purchased in 1731 by Denis Latour. The Latour family originally worked as coopers, and Denis’ son Jean moved to Aloxe-Corton to set up an independent cooperage and later to found Maison Louis Latour, naming the business after his son. The house of Latour remains closely associated with th ...

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The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C  in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...

The word of the wine: Broker

In the past, he was a sort of fraud control agent who had to watch over the quality of merchant wines (he could carry a sword!). His function has evolved towards expertise (it was the brokers who established the famous 1855 classification in Bordeaux) and today he puts the producer in contact with the merchant.

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