The Winery Les Terrasses of Libournais of Bordeaux

Winery Les Terrasses - Chinon Val De Loire
The winery offers 9 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 14 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Libournais in the region of Bordeaux

The Winery Les Terrasses is one of the world's great estates. It offers 9 wines for sale in of Libournais to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Les Terrasses wines

Looking for the best Winery Les Terrasses wines in Libournais among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Les Terrasses 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 Les Terrasses wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Les Terrasses

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Les Terrasses

How Winery Les Terrasses wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, spicy food or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of beef bourguignon with tomato, tuscan linguine or cheese soufflé omelette.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Les Terrasses

On the nose the red wine of Winery Les Terrasses. often reveals types of flavors of spices, red fruit or black fruit and sometimes also flavors of non oak, earth or oak. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Les Terrasses. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Les Terrasses

  • 2015With an average score of 4.32/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.72/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Les Terrasses.

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Grenache
  • Malbec
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Carignan
  • Mourvedre

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. .

The top white wines of Winery Les Terrasses

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Les Terrasses

How Winery Les Terrasses wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of chicken ballotine with ham and mushrooms, sliced tuna with tomato sauce or zucchini quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Les Terrasses

On the nose the white wine of Winery Les Terrasses. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, oak or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit, earth. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Les Terrasses. is a .

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Les Terrasses

  • 2018With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.40/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Les Terrasses.

  • Chardonnay
  • Roussanne
  • Grenache Blanc

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.

The top pink wines of Winery Les Terrasses

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Les Terrasses

How Winery Les Terrasses wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of pasta with vegetables, quiche without eggs or tuna and tomato mini quiches without batter.

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Winery Les Terrasses

On the nose the pink wine of Winery Les Terrasses. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit. In the mouth the pink wine of Winery Les Terrasses. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Les Terrasses

  • 2018With an average score of 4.00/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Les Terrasses.

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Grenache

The word of the wine: Aroma

A pleasant smell that can be primary (or varietal, i.e. characteristic of the grape), secondary (resulting from fermentation) or tertiary (resulting from the aging of the wine in the bottle).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Les Terrasses

Planning a wine route in the of Libournais? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Les Terrasses.

Discover the grape variety: Mourvèdre

Mourvèdre noir is a grape variety originating from Spain. 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 medium to large bunches, and grapes of medium size. Mourvèdre noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Rhône valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

News about Winery Les Terrasses and wines from the region

Andrew Jefford: ‘Can wine help us make sense of tragedy?’

The dark days began when I learned from a visiting Canadian friend about the death of one of the kindest, most gentle and most skilful Pinot winemakers I’ve known, Paul Pender of Tawse Winery. He died in a senseless and tragic act of violence on the evening of 3 February, outside his Lake Erie cottage. A stranger, subsequently charged with his murder, had (it seems) knocked on his door, asking for help. Paul’s sudden, untimely loss has left his family, and the broader Canadian wine community, di ...

Courvoisier Mizunara: the launch of a collaborative Cognac

Described by Courvoisier as ‘daring’, ‘visionary’ and ‘a first-of-its-kind collaboration’, Courvoisier Mizunara was created by the house’s recently-retired maître de chai, Patrice Pinet, and Shinji Fukuyo, chief blender of Japanese whisky maker Suntory. The project dates back to 2015, when the president of Suntory visited Courvoisier at Jarnac shortly after Suntory took over Beam Global, the Cognac house’s then owner, in a deal worth US$16bn. Pinet expressed an interest in experimenting with miz ...

Pomerol granted permission for ‘exceptional’ irrigation

‘Climatic conditions’ and the requests of a ‘certain number of winegrowers’ were cited as the reasons for Jean-Marie Garde, president of the Pomerol appellation, to ask regulatory body Institut National de l’Origine et de la Qualité (INAO) to temporarily reverse the long-standing ban on irrigation. The favourable news was shared via emails seen by Decanter, with an accompanying letter from the INAO dated July 20, 2022. The letter, translated from French, states that after ...

The word of the wine: Aroma

A pleasant smell that can be primary (or varietal, i.e. characteristic of the grape), secondary (resulting from fermentation) or tertiary (resulting from the aging of the wine in the bottle).