The Château de Landiras of Graves of Bordeaux
The Château de Landiras is one of the best wineries to follow in Graves.. It offers 15 wines for sale in of Graves to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Château de Landiras wines in Graves among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château de Landiras 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 de Landiras wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Château de Landiras wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of empanadas de carne (argentina), lamb confit with new potatoes or north welsch.
Graves is a wine region on the left bank of the Bordeaux region of France, characterized by the gravel soils that give it its name. Unique among the sub-regions of Bordeaux, Graves is equally respected for its red and white wines. The AOC Graves, which covers both red and white wines, is the catch-all appellation of the district. A typical Graves red is based on the classic Bordeaux grapes, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, with Cabernet Franc, Malbec and Petit Verdot sometimes in a supporting role.
The typical white wine of Graves is Dry, medium-bodied and usually made from the equally familiar combination of Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon. About 2500 hectares of AOC Graves vineyards are devoted to red grapes, with about 750 hectares planted with white grapes. Average production is about 20 million bottles per year for white, red and Graves Supérieures wines. The latter share the same boundaries as Graves, but are a classification for Sweet white wines only, with about 150 hectares of dedicated vineyards.
How Château de Landiras wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef with dark beer, duck breast with pepper sauce or home-made cassoulet.
On the nose the red wine of Château de Landiras. often reveals types of flavors of cheese, dark fruit or black fruits and sometimes also flavors of black currant, pear or chocolate. In the mouth the red wine of Château de Landiras. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.
How Château de Landiras wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of the real vegetables stuffed in the provençal way, quiche without pastry or potato and bacon omelette.
On the nose the white wine of Château de Landiras. often reveals types of flavors of tropical, citrus or lychee and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit, tropical fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Château de Landiras. is a powerful.
Traces left by the wine on the sides of the glass when it is shaken or tilted.
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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.
A ‘very promising’ vintage is expected, said the regional wine council (CIVB), as the Bordeaux 2022 harvest gets underway for reds. It’s still too early to judge fully and yields will be lower in some cases following heat, drought and also hailstorms during the growing season, yet the CIVB cited ‘attractive but small berries’ and healthy vineyard conditions during the crucial flowering period and for harvest. Europe has seen early starts to wine harvests in 2022 and the C ...
Police ordered the evacuation of more local residents in the Landiras area yesterday (Monday 18 July), with Liber Pater’s vineyard in Graves also evacuated as firefighters continued to try to contain a large forest fire that has been burning for the past week. A ‘fog’ of fire smoke behind Liber Pater vines on Tuesday morning (19 July), said owner Loïc Pasquet, who was briefly able to return to the site. Smoke hasn’t been a problem so far, he said. Credit: Loïc Pasquet. ‘The pol ...
The Francs de Pied (Ungrafted Vines) group, which last met two weeks ago at Pasquet’s Liber Pater winery in the Graves, consists of a growing circle of vignerons who work with ungrafted vineyards planted to native varieties. The list includes Francs de Pied president Loïc Pasquet himself, vice-president Egon Müller (Mosel), and secretary Andrea Polidoro of Cupano (Montalcino) and Contrada Contro (Marche); as well as Gocha Chkhaidze of leading Georgian winery, Askaneli; Thibault Liger-Belair (Bur ...
Traces left by the wine on the sides of the glass when it is shaken or tilted.