The Château Gravas of Sauternes of Bordeaux

Château Gravas
The winery offers 8 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.1.
It is ranked in the top 39 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Sauternes in the region of Bordeaux
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The Château Gravas is one of the world's great estates. It offers 8 wines for sale in of Sauternes to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Gravas wines

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

The top white wines of Château Gravas

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Château Gravas

How Château Gravas wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or sweet desserts such as recipes of salmon and avocado chirashi, chicken tagine with apricots and almonds or real chocolate cake.

The best vintages in the white wines of Château Gravas

  • 2015With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.70/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Château Gravas.

  • Sémillon
  • Malbec
  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon

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 red wines of Château Gravas

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Gravas

How Château Gravas wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of delicious bourguignon, savoyard pizza (cream base) or provençal tart with rabbit.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Gravas

  • 2015With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.80/5

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

  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.

The top sweet wines of Château Gravas

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Château Gravas

How Château Gravas wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of fruity desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of the coughing cat's apple crumble or veal chops with roquefort sauce.

Organoleptic analysis of sweet wines of Château Gravas

On the nose the sweet wine of Château Gravas. often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, tree fruit or dried apricot and sometimes also flavors of non oak, earth or microbio. In the mouth the sweet wine of Château Gravas. is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Château Gravas

  • 2007With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2016With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2009With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2012With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2011With an average score of 4.10/5

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

  • Sémillon
  • Sauvignon Blanc

The word of the wine: Flowable

A supple, easy-drinking wine with little consistency in the mouth.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Gravas

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 Gravas.

Discover the grape variety: Malbec

Malbec, a high-yielding red grape variety, produces tannic and colourful wines. It is produced in different wine-growing regions and changes its name according to the grape variety. Called Auxerrois in Cahors, Malbec in Bordeaux, it is also known as Côt. 6,000 hectares of the Malbec grape are grown in France (in decline since the 1950s). Malbec is also very successful in Argentina. The country has become the world's leading producer of Malbec and offers wines with great potential.

News about Château Gravas and wines from the region

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An overview of the Rully appellation

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The word of the wine: Flowable

A supple, easy-drinking wine with little consistency in the mouth.