The Château Marsau of Libournais of Bordeaux

Château Marsau
The winery offers 4 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 1082 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Libournais in the region of Bordeaux
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The Château Marsau is one of the best wineries to follow in Libournais.. It offers 4 wines for sale in of Libournais to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Marsau wines

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

The top red wines of Château Marsau

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Marsau

How Château Marsau wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of authentic bolognese sauce (ragù di carne), veal fillet stroganoff or duck breast and roasted peaches.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Marsau

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

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Marsau

  • 2004With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2000With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2002With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2005With an average score of 3.97/5
  • 2003With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.83/5

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

  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon

Discovering the wine region of Libournais

Rich in world-renowned wines, such as Saint-Emilion Grands Crus and Bordeaux/libournais/pomerol">Pomerol, the Libourne region Lies on the right bank of the Dordogne, on the edge of the Périgord. The region takes its name from the port city of Libourne, where many merchants from the Correze settled in the early 19th century. But its jewel is the small medieval city of Saint-Emilion, listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site and one of the most famous showcases of the Bordeaux wine region. The region is very homogeneous due to its hilly landscapes, its geology (predominantly limestone subsoil), the concentration of vineyards and the importance of family-run, small or medium-sized estates, which contrast with the large Medoc-type estates.

The Libournais is also Distinguished by its Grape variety dominated by Merlot, which gives Finesse, roundness and fruitiness to the red wines and allows them to age well, even if they generally Open up more quickly than those of appellations dominated by Cabernet Sauvignon. .

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Discover the grape variety: Courbu noir

Courbu noir is a grape variety with red and bronze leaves. It originates from the Pyrenean vineyards where it occupies a little more than one hectare. It is completely different from the white Courbu. The adult leaves have five lobes and a petiolar sinus. The berries of the Courbu Noir are round. The berries are small, as are the clusters. The beginning of the veins and the petiolar point are red. The shoots of this grape variety bend to form a parasol. To hope for a significant harvest, it is important to prune it long. Its budburst period begins 3 days after Chasselas. As for its maturity, it is the third period. This variety is very sensitive to oidium, but it does not fear mildew very much. It produces light and fine wines. It is not very colourful and does not contain enough alcohol. Courbu Noir has two approved clones, 728 and 729.

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