The Château Gilette of Sauternes of Bordeaux

Château Gilette
The winery offers 6 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.5.
This estate is part of the Vignobles Gonet-Médeville.
It is ranked in the top 3 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Sauternes in the region of Bordeaux
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The Château Gilette is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 6 wines for sale in of Sauternes to come and discover on site or to buy online.

The Château Gilette is a vineyard in Sauternes, Gironde, France. This property is located on sunny hillsides overlooking the Garonne River and the Gironde estuary, southeast of Bordeaux. Château Gilette produces high-quality Sauternes wines and Sauternes wines associated with sweet wines, including Bordeaux-Sauternes Superieur. The vineyard is planted with 20 hectares of white and red grape varieties, which include Sémillon, Muscadelle, and Sauvignon Blanc for white grapes, and Sauvignon Gris and Cabernet Sauvignon for red grapes. The vines are also covered with a trellising system that helps protect the grape clusters from night-time cooling and therefore softens the strenuous climatic conditions of Bordeaux whilst enabling the production of more flavorful and alcoholic wines. Wines produced at the Château Gilette vineyard are known for their aromatic complexity and balance. The white wines are rich in sugar with notes of exotic fruits and honey, and the red wines are complex and delicate, with notes of black fruits, spices, and cedar. Château Gilette wines are considered exceptional, and the vineyard is recognized for its environmentally friendly production methods. The property uses trellis systems to control vigor and encourage even vine development, and also cultivates cultural practices that ensure the health and robustness of the soils. Château Gilette also produces dried grapes for candy or cake and bread decoration. Château Gilette's raisins are considered the best products of this range in Gironde, and are highly valued by bakers and other artisans, as well as by local restaurant chefs and refined hoteliers. Château Gilette also offers tours and tastings for visitors and groups.

Top Château Gilette wines

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

The top pink wines of Château Gilette

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Château Gilette

How Château Gilette wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or sweet desserts such as recipes of leek and salmon lasagna, paella from an old spanish grandmother... or very simple muffins.

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Château Gilette

On the nose the pink wine of Château Gilette. often reveals types of flavors of coffee, caramel or non oak and sometimes also flavors of oak.

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Château Gilette.

  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Sémillon
  • Muscadelle

Discovering the wine region of Sauternes

Sauternes, 65 km South of Bordeaux, is a Village renowned for its high quality Sweet wines. Although some wineries produce Dry wines, they sell them under other appellations than Sauternes, which is specific to sweet wines. The village is surrounded on all sides by vineyards, the best of which produce some of the most prestigious, long-lasting and expensive dessert wines in the world. A half bottle of premium, aged Sauternes from a good Vintage can sell for over $1,000.

Classic Sauternes has a DeepGoldenColor (darker than most other dessert wines), which turns a deep amber color with bottle age. Its aromas include flower and stone fruit, with a hint of honeysuckle - the hallmark of botrytized wines. The best wines balance sweetness with acidity, concentration with freshness and power with elegance. Sauternes wines are primarily made from the Sémillon grape, which accounts for about eight out of every ten vines in the local vineyard.

Sauvignon Blanc accounts for most of the remaining vineyard and is the dominant grape in a small handful of Sauternes wines. Semillon forms a broad, well-structured base with aromas of beeswax and apricot, while Sauvignon Blanc contributes its characteristic herbal aromas and enough acidity to keep the resulting wine fresh rather than mouthwatering. These two varieties (sometimes supplemented by a small amount of Muscadelle and Sauvignon Gris) have become the preferred varieties here, not only because they are also used to make dry white Bordeaux wines, but also because of their susceptibility to a particular type of fungus, Botrytis cinerea (often just botrytis). Apart from yeast, without which the grape juice cannot ferment into wine, one would not expect a fungus to play a key role in winemaking.

The top sweet wines of Château Gilette

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Château Gilette

How Château Gilette wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of fruity desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of apple pie or tagliatelle with broccoli and gorgonzola sauce.

Organoleptic analysis of sweet wines of Château Gilette

On the nose the sweet wine of Château Gilette. often reveals types of flavors of cream, peach or butter and sometimes also flavors of apricot, caramel or raisin. In the mouth the sweet wine of Château Gilette. is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Château Gilette

  • 1997With an average score of 4.80/5
  • 1937With an average score of 4.80/5
  • 1979With an average score of 4.70/5
  • 1971With an average score of 4.70/5
  • 1955With an average score of 4.70/5
  • 1989With an average score of 4.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Château Gilette.

  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Muscadelle
  • Sémillon
  • Sémillon

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon blanc

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Gilette

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

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.

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