Clos du GravillasDouce Providence Muscat de Saint-Jean de Minervois
Natural sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with spicy food and sweet desserts.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Douce Providence Muscat de Saint-Jean de Minervois of Clos du Gravillas in the region of Languedoc-Roussillon often reveals types of flavors of peach, honey or earth and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Douce Providence Muscat de Saint-Jean de Minervois
Pairings that work perfectly with Douce Providence Muscat de Saint-Jean de Minervois
Original food and wine pairings with Douce Providence Muscat de Saint-Jean de Minervois
The Douce Providence Muscat de Saint-Jean de Minervois of Clos du Gravillas matches generally quite well with dishes of spicy food or sweet desserts such as recipes of veal tagine with preserved lemons and saffron or gaufress and light.
Details and technical informations about Clos du Gravillas's Douce Providence Muscat de Saint-Jean de Minervois.
Discover the grape variety: Planta nova
A very old indigenous grape variety that has been cultivated for a very long time in Spain, more precisely in the western region of Valencia, where it is practically no longer multiplied today. It is said to be the result of a natural cross between the heftakilo and the rojal tinta, which are both black varieties. Planta nova can still be found in Portugal, Argentina, South Africa, ... almost unknown in France. A long time ago it was also harvested as a table grape, which is no longer the case today.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Douce Providence Muscat de Saint-Jean de Minervois from Clos du Gravillas are 2016, 2015, 2014
Informations about the Clos du Gravillas
The Clos du Gravillas is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 17 wines for sale in the of Muscat de St. Jean de Minervois to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Muscat de St. Jean de Minervois
Muscat de Saint-Jean-de-Minervois is a Sweet, fortified, natural wine appellation from the Languedoc wine region in Southern France. The wines are based on the Muscat Blanc a Petits Grains Grape variety. Muscat de Saint-Jean-de-Minervois wines are produced using a traditional sweet winemaking process called Mutage, which involves adding Alcohol to the grape must to prematurely stop the Yeast">yeast and thus the Fermentation process. They generally have a residual sugar content of about 125 grams per litre and an alcohol content of about 15%.
The wine region of Languedoc-Roussillon
Languedoc (formerly Coteaux du Languedoc) is a key appellation used in the Languedoc-Roussillon wine region of southern France. It covers Dry table wines of all three colors (red, white and rosé) from the entire region, but leaves Sweet and Sparkling wines to other more specialized appellations. About 75% of all Languedoc wines are red, with the remaining 25% split roughly down the middle between whites and rosés. The appellation covers most of the Languedoc region and almost a third of all the vineyards in France.
The word of the wine: Jeroboam
Bottle with a capacity of 5 litres.
