The Château Lieujean of Haut-Médoc of Bordeaux

Château Lieujean
The winery offers 8 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
This estate is part of the Antoine Moueix.
It is ranked in the top 146 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Haut-Médoc in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Lieujean is one of the best wineries to follow in Haut-Médoc.. It offers 8 wines for sale in of Haut-Médoc to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Lieujean wines

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

The top red wines of Château Lieujean

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Lieujean

How Château Lieujean wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of roast monkfish with bacon, mouse of lamb with honey and thyme or garbure with duck confit.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Lieujean

On the nose the red wine of Château Lieujean. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, oaky or smoke and sometimes also flavors of blackberry, blueberry or minerality. In the mouth the red wine of Château Lieujean. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Lieujean

  • 2003With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 1992With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 1990With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2006With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.87/5
  • 2008With an average score of 3.80/5

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

  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc

Discovering the wine region of Haut-Médoc

Structured Bordeaux AOC upstream of the Gironde north of Bordeaux: signature Cabernet Sauvignon as king red on the gravel mounds — deep-coloured and tannic with notes of blackcurrant, blackberry, cedar, tobacco and a hint of spice, structured and age-worthy. Supple Merlot on clay soils adds roundness (plum, red fruits). Dense Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc complete it. Evolving bouquet (roast, truffle, prune, leather).

5 Classed Growths (1855). AOC (1935), well-drained gravels, oceanic.

The top white wines of Château Lieujean

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Château Lieujean

How Château Lieujean wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of cantonese rice, magic cake cheese quiche or spanish omelette (tortilla auténtica).

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

  • Sauvignon Gris
  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Supple, fragrant reds with fine tannins and vibrant freshness, showing raspberry, violet, green pepper, pencil lead and gentle spice aromas. Star of the Loire as a single variety (Chinon, Bourgueil, Saumur-Champigny) and of the right bank of Bordeaux in blends (Cheval Blanc at 60%). Also in semi-dry Anjou rosés. A historic Bordeaux variety, parent of Cabernet-Sauvignon, Merlot and Carmenère.

The top pink wines of Château Lieujean

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Château Lieujean

How Château Lieujean wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of picadillo, lamb and coconut curry, african style or rabbit with mustard in foil.

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot

The word of the wine: Hat

Solid part (marc), composed of pips and skins (sometimes of the stalk), which forms at the top of the tank during fermentation. The pigeage consists in breaking this cap to put back in suspension these elements and to favour the exchanges between the juice and the skins.

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Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Round and fleshy reds with a velvety texture, showing aromas of ripe plum, black cherry, cocoa and truffle notes with age. Supple tannins, generous alcohol, indulgent finish. Pillar of Libournais (Pomerol with Pétrus, Saint-Émilion with Cheval Blanc and Ausone) and signature of Super Tuscans, Italian Wales and Washington State. A cross of Cabernet Franc × Magdeleine Noire, France's most planted red variety.