The Château Marsau of Libournais of Bordeaux

Château Marsau - Francs - Côtes de Bordeaux
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 grandma melanie's cassoulet, stuffed squid in the sétoise sauce or wild boar stew marinated in red wine.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Marsau

On the nose the red wine of Château Marsau. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, non oak or sour cherry and sometimes also flavors of mushroom, cassis or cinnamon. 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: Gibert

An ancient grape variety found in the Lot department. A.D.N. analyses processed by specific software (U.M.R.-A.G.A.P. Montpellier) have indicated that it is the result of a cross between côt and colombaud. Today, no longer present in the vineyard, it is on the verge of extinction, registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A1.

News about Château Marsau and wines from the region

Top DWWA award-winning wines on show at Decanter Fine Wine Encounter NYC

At the 2021 Decanter World Wine Awards, the world’s largest wine competition saw its biggest year to date, with 18,094 wines tasted from 56 countries. Over 15 consecutive days in June 2021, almost 170 expert wine judges, including 44 Masters of Wine and 11 Master Sommeliers, awarded 50 Best in Show, 179 Platinum, 635 Gold, 5,607 Silver and 8,332 Bronze medals. Join Decanter at our Fine Wine Encounter NYC this June, where you will have the opportunity to sample 23 of these top awarded Gold, Plati ...

Remembering Clive Coates MW, an authority on Burgundy and Bordeaux

The world of fine wine was saddened this weekend at the news of the passing of the widely loved wine authority Clive Coates MW. Few, if any, Masters of Wine exhibited the spontaneous generosity and amiable disposition that Clive Coates displayed throughout his long and illustrious career. His generosity with his time was remarkable given the breadth of his activities. Personally, I will always be grateful for his encouragement while I was preparing for the MW exam and again when publishing my fi ...

DO Penedès announces the first “Vi de Mas” wines

In November of 2021, Spain’s DO Penedès announced a massive overhaul of their bylaws with many changes aimed at re-orienting the region via a “10-year plan”. One of the key aspects was a new classification system for the estates of the region called, “Vi de Mas”, the first five of which have just been certified. While most wine regions looking to implement a system use the so-called “Burgundian Pyramid” as a structure, Penedès took a different approach that merged some of the Burgundian sy ...

The word of the wine: Animal

Generic smell of aromatic families reminiscent of fur, game, musk, civet, amber and sometimes unpleasant smells of wet hair. The old books on tasting give as an example of animal aroma the belly of hare.

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