The Château Plagnac of Médoc of Bordeaux

Château Plagnac
The winery offers 3 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 847 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Médoc in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Plagnac is one of the best wineries to follow in Médoc.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Médoc to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Plagnac wines

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

The top red wines of Château Plagnac

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Plagnac

How Château Plagnac wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal such as recipes of melt-in-the-mouth pork tenderloin casserole, multicoloured butterfly pasta or roast veal with chanterelles and cream.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Plagnac

On the nose the red wine of Château Plagnac. often reveals types of flavors of oaky, cedar or red fruit and sometimes also flavors of spices, oak or vegetal. In the mouth the red wine of Château Plagnac. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Plagnac

  • 1997With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 1999With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 1996With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2008With an average score of 3.70/5

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Médoc

Bordeaux's Médoc is an area of coastal lagoons, sand dunes and pine forests located on the 45th parallel. It is also a global wine powerhouse, and home to four of the world's most prestigious wine villages: Pauillac, Margaux, Saint-Estèphe and Saint-Julien. The estates located in these villages produce some of the most expensive bottles in the world. The region has also provided all but one of the châteaux included in the official 1855 Bordeaux wine classification (Haut-Brion).

The Médoc vineyards cover about 16,000 hectares, including the various small appellations. Approximately 5500 hectares of vines are classified for the production of AOC/AOP Médoc wines. Wedged between the Atlantic coast and the wide Gironde estuary, the Médoc is in fact a peninsula. It stretches 80 kilometres (50 miles) to the northwest, from the city of Bordeaux to the Pointe de Grave.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Plagnac

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

Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). 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 small to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

News about Château Plagnac and wines from the region

Bordeaux ‘Act for Change’ symposium

The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C  in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...

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Axel Heinz leaves Ornellaia to join Château Lascombes

Axel Heinz, the longtime director of Ornellaia and Masseto, is leaving Tuscany for Bordeaux to take up a new position at Château Lascombes, classified second growth in Margaux. It was announced yesterday (23rd March), that Heinz was stepping down as estate director at Ornellaia and Masseto. His role will officially come to an end this summer. Heinz joined the Bolgheri estate in 2005. His 18-year tenure was marked by ‘massive development and success’ said CEO Giovanni Geddes, which, he added, wer ...

The word of the wine: Destemming

Action consisting in separating the grapes from the stalk before vinification. The stalk, the woody part of the bunch, may give the wine an unpleasant vegetal character.