The Winery Colette & Léon of Beaujolais

Winery Colette & Léon
The winery offers 9 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
This estate is part of the Aegerter.
It is ranked in the top 2125 of the estates of Beaujolais.
It is located in Beaujolais

The Winery Colette & Léon is one of the best wineries to follow in Beaujolais.. It offers 9 wines for sale in of Beaujolais to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Colette & Léon wines

Looking for the best Winery Colette & Léon wines in Beaujolais among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Colette & Léon 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 Winery Colette & Léon wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Colette & Léon

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Colette & Léon

How Winery Colette & Léon wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or poultry such as recipes of english tuna croque-monsieur, indian chicken (simplified korma) or one pot pasta with creamy chicken farfalle.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Colette & Léon.

  • Chardonnay
  • Aligoté

Discovering the wine region of Beaujolais

Beaujolais is an important wine region in eastern France, famous for its vibrant, Fruity red wines made from Gamay. It is located immediately South of Burgundy, of which it is sometimes considered a Part, although it is in the administrative region of Rhône. The extensive plantings of Gamay in this region make Beaujolais one of the few regions in the world that is so concentrated on a single Grape variety. Pinot Noir is used in small quantities in red and rosé wines, but in the name of regional identity, it is being phased out and will only be allowed until the 2015 harvest.

Although best known for its red wines, the region also produces white Beaujolais Blanc, from Chardonnay and Aligote. These two white wine varieties are also sometimes used in local red wines, in which they can make up to 15% of the Final blend. There are several forms of Beaujolais red wine: standard Beaujolais (including Beaujolais Supérieur), Beaujolais Villages and the Young, characterful Beaujolais Nouveau. The highest quality wines of the region are those of the ten Beaujolais crus - ten wine regions Long recognized as the best in the region.

The top red wines of Winery Colette & Léon

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Colette & Léon

How Winery Colette & Léon wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of pasta with goat cheese, thyme and bacon, capon stuffed with morels or tartiflette (from a real savoyard).

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Colette & Léon

In the mouth the red wine of Winery Colette & Léon. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Colette & Léon

  • 2016With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.08/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Colette & Léon.

  • Gamay

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). 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 bunches, and small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Colette & Léon

Planning a wine route in the of Beaujolais? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Colette & Léon.

Discover the grape variety: Aligoté

Aligoté is an ancient Burgundian grape variety (it has different names depending on the region in which it is grown: griset blanc in Beaune, giboudot blanc in the Chalonnais or troyen blanc in the Aube), mainly used in the production of Bourgogne-Aligoté, Bouzeron and Crémant-de-Bourgogne.aligoté is a medium-fine white grape variety, quite productive, which gives clear, acidic, fresh and light white wines. An anecdote often says that it was a member of the clergy named Kir who gave it its letters of nobility by adding it to blackcurrant cream to prepare an aperitif.produced on more than 1,600 hectares in Burgundy, aligoté has also been exported. It is also cultivated in Eastern Europe (Ukraine, Romania), California, Canada and Chile, representing more than 20,000 hectares in the world.

News about Winery Colette & Léon and wines from the region

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Chablis: #locationmatters by Yang LU

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The word of the wine: Lamb's lettuce

Characteristic of fleshy and consistent wines giving the impression of being chewed.