The Château Barreyres of Haut-Médoc of Bordeaux

Château Barreyres - Fougey Bordeaux
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
This estate is part of the Castel Group.
It is ranked in the top 25 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Haut-Médoc in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Barreyres is one of the world's great estates. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Haut-Médoc to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Barreyres wines

Looking for the best Château Barreyres wines in Haut-Médoc among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Barreyres 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 Château Barreyres wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château Barreyres

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Barreyres

How Château Barreyres wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of tata simone's dumplings, roast veal in the oven or whole duck casserole with white wine.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Barreyres

On the nose the red wine of Château Barreyres. often reveals types of flavors of cream, non oak or cassis and sometimes also flavors of caramel, stone or mint. In the mouth the red wine of Château Barreyres. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Barreyres

  • 1999With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2016With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2002With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2007With an average score of 4.00/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Barreyres.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Haut-Médoc

The wine region of Haut-Médoc is located in the region of Médoc of Bordeaux of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Château Lestage Simon or the Château La Lagune produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Haut-Médoc are Cabernet-Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet franc, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Haut-Médoc often reveals types of flavors of leather, sour cherry or almonds and sometimes also flavors of chalk, hay or orange.

In the mouth of Haut-Médoc is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 512 estates and châteaux in the of Haut-Médoc, producing 836 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Haut-Médoc go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Barreyres

Planning a wine route in the of Haut-Médoc? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Barreyres.

Discover the grape variety: Panse de Provence

Most certainly of oriental origin, introduced in Spain then spread in France, in Italy, in North Africa... more generally on all the Mediterranean basin. It can also be found in the United States, Thailand, ... and in many other countries. It should not be confused with the early or Sicilian pansy at first maturity.

News about Château Barreyres and wines from the region

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

Angélus, Léoville Barton join 2021 en primeur releases

Château Angélus 2021 was released this morning (23 May) at €265 per bottle ex-Bordeaux, according to Liv-ex, up by around 2% on the opening price of the 2020 vintage last year. Merchants were offering Angélus 2021 for £3,120 (12x75cl in bond). Decanter’s Georgie Hindle scored Angélus 2021 95 points, praising its ‘exceptional finesse’. She said the wine represents an excellent effort, following a Bordeaux 2021 growing season that presented many weather challenges. This vintage of Angélus contains ...

Bordeaux ‘Act for Change’ symposium

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: Casting

Preparatory phase of the wine-making process consisting in bursting the grapes in order to release the juice.