The Winery Rafale of Pays d'Oc

Winery Rafale
The winery offers 8 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
This estate is part of the Vignerons Catalans.
It is ranked in the top 545 of the estates of Pays d'Oc.
It is located in Pays d'Oc

The Winery Rafale is one of the best wineries to follow in Pays d'Oc.. It offers 8 wines for sale in of Pays d'Oc to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Rafale wines

Looking for the best Winery Rafale wines in Pays d'Oc among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Rafale 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 Rafale wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top pink wines of Winery Rafale

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Rafale

How Winery Rafale wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of pasta carbonara, tuna, pepper and tomato quiche or tuna rillettes.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Rafale

  • 2014With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.20/5

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon

Discovering the wine region of Pays d'Oc

Pays d'Oc is the PGI for red, white and rosé wines that are produced over a wide area of the southern coast of France. The PGI catchment area corresponds roughly to the Languedoc-roussillon">Languedoc-Roussillon wine region, one of the largest wine regions in France. The area covers all wines that are not produced under the strict laws that govern AOC-level appellations in the regions: among them, Corbières, Minervois and the Languedoc appellation itself. The Pays d'Oc PGI is arguably the most important in France, producing the majority of the country's PGI wines.

Five separate departments fall under the PGI (Hérault, Aude, Gard, Pyrénées-Orientales and six communes in southern Lozère), which is delimited by administrative rather than geographical boundaries. The name therefore covers a wide variety of terrain, from the mountain ranges of the southern Massif Central to the coastal plains of the Camargue crossed by rivers. Vineyards jostle for position in the Garrigue landscape. The Pays d'Oc has a MediterraneanClimate with hot, Dry summers and mild winters.

The top red wines of Winery Rafale

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Rafale

How Winery Rafale wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal such as recipes of beef tagine with prunes and almonds, pasta with walnuts and treviso red salad or veal escalope with marsala.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Rafale

On the nose the red wine of Winery Rafale. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, strawberries or plum and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Rafale. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Rafale

  • 2018With an average score of 3.59/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.58/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.47/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.45/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.44/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.38/5

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Shiraz/Syrah

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 white wines of Winery Rafale

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Rafale

How Winery Rafale wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of meat and goat pie, zucchini quiche or chicken with olives in a couscousier.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Rafale

On the nose the white wine of Winery Rafale. often reveals types of flavors of peach, oak or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of earth. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Rafale. is a powerful.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Rafale

  • 2015With an average score of 3.86/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.61/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.57/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.47/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.44/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.36/5

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

  • Chardonnay
  • Muscat Blanc
  • Sauvignon Blanc

The word of the wine: Harmonious

Balance of the different organoleptic elements of a wine. This harmony is linked to the typicity of each wine. The sweetness of a sweet wine is an element of its balance, whereas a Sancerre or a Chablis will be asked to be lively and dry.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Rafale

Planning a wine route in the of Pays d'Oc? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Rafale.

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon blanc

Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.

News about Winery Rafale and wines from the region

The Rully appellation investigated through its geology and geography

The Bourgogne Wine Board (BIVB) invites you to enjoy this video in which Jean-Pierre Renard, Expert Instructor at the Ecole des Vins de Bourgogne, explains the topographical and geological characteristics of the Rully appellation. Here the vineyard is planted on different hills which have very different gelogicial characteristics. It partly explains the great diversity in the expression of the Rully wines. This video is taken from the “Rendez-vous avec les vins de Bourgogne” program (February 20 ...

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Burgy

Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Burgy, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are availablein French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneWines/ ...

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Azé

Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Azé, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are available in French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneWines/​ ...

The word of the wine: Harmonious

Balance of the different organoleptic elements of a wine. This harmony is linked to the typicity of each wine. The sweetness of a sweet wine is an element of its balance, whereas a Sancerre or a Chablis will be asked to be lively and dry.