The Domaine Sauvète of Loire Valley

Domaine Sauvète
The winery offers 19 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 2029 of the estates of Loire Valley.
It is located in Loire Valley
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The Domaine Sauvète is one of the best wineries to follow in Vallée de la Loire.. It offers 19 wines for sale in of Loire Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Domaine Sauvète wines

Looking for the best Domaine Sauvète wines in Loire Valley among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Domaine Sauvète 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 Domaine Sauvète wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Domaine Sauvète

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Domaine Sauvète

How Domaine Sauvète wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, spicy food or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of fricandeaux german style, red mullet, mackerel, tuna, salmon sushi or filet mignon stuffed with bacon and comté cheese.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Domaine Sauvète

On the nose the red wine of Domaine Sauvète. often reveals types of flavors of blackberry, earth or spices and sometimes also flavors of black fruit, strawberries or microbio.

The best vintages in the red wines of Domaine Sauvète

  • 2010With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.17/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Domaine Sauvète.

  • Gamay
  • Malbec
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Côt

Discovering the wine region of Loire Valley

The Loire Valley is a key wine region in western France. It follows the course of the Loire River on its Long journey through the heart of France, from the inland hills of the Auvergne to the plains of the French Atlantic coast near Nantes (Muscadet country). Important in terms of quantity and quality, the region produces large quantities (about 4 million h/l each year) of everyday wines, as well as some of France's greatest wines. Diversity is another of the region's major assets; the styles of wine produced here range from the light, tangy Muscadet to the Sweet, honeyed Bonnezeaux, the Sparkling whites of Vouvray and the juicy, Tannic reds of Chinon and Saumur.

It's quite telling that this brief overview of the region's wines doesn't even mention the Loire Valley's two most famous wines - Sancerre and Pouilly-Fume. White wines are clearly the strong point of the Loire Valley and represent the vast majority of production. A significant proportion of these are produced under PGI appellations, most commonly the IGP Loire (formerly Vin de Pays du Jardin de la France), which covers the whole region. The main white Grape varieties used for the production of white wines in the Loire Valley are Sauvignon Blanc, Chenin Blanc, Melon de Bourgogne and, more popular than the traditional, Chardonnay.

The top white wines of Domaine Sauvète

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Domaine Sauvète

How Domaine Sauvète wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or vegetarian such as recipes of cod brandade, scupion (small cuttlefish) in hot sauce or goat cheese and bacon quiche.

The best vintages in the white wines of Domaine Sauvète

  • 2018With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.53/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Domaine Sauvète.

  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discover the grape variety: Malbec

Malbec, a high-yielding red grape variety, produces tannic and colourful wines. It is produced in different wine-growing regions and changes its name according to the grape variety. Called Auxerrois in Cahors, Malbec in Bordeaux, it is also known as Côt. 6,000 hectares of the Malbec grape are grown in France (in decline since the 1950s). Malbec is also very successful in Argentina. The country has become the world's leading producer of Malbec and offers wines with great potential.

The top sparkling wines of Domaine Sauvète

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Domaine Sauvète

How Domaine Sauvète wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, poultry or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of brasucade of mussels from languedoc, filet mignon in a quick crust or prunes with bacon.

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Domaine Sauvète.

  • Cabernet Franc
  • Chardonnay
  • Chenin Blanc

The word of the wine: Vineyard

Said of a wine with a certain alcoholic richness and clearly showing the characteristics that distinguish wine from other alcoholic beverages.

The top sweet wines of Domaine Sauvète

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Domaine Sauvète

How Domaine Sauvète wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of mature and hard cheese, fruity desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of comté cheese and cream soufflé, apple cake or zucchini soup with blue cheese.

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Domaine Sauvète.

  • Chenin Blanc
  • Chardonnay
  • Malbec

Discover the grape variety: Chenin blanc

It most certainly originates from the Anjou region and is registered in the official catalogue of wine grape varieties on the A1 list. It can also be found in South Africa, Australia, Argentina, Chile, the United States (California), New Zealand, etc. It is said to be a descendant of Savagnin and to have sauvignonasse as its second parent (Jean-Michel Boursiquot 2019). On the other hand, Chenin blanc is the half-brother of verdelho and sauvignon blanc and is the father of colombard.

The top pink wines of Domaine Sauvète

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Domaine Sauvète

How Domaine Sauvète wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Domaine Sauvète.

  • Pineau D'Aunis

The word of the wine: Defect

Characteristic of a wine that is either aromatically deviant or unbalanced on the palate due to an excess or a lack of one or more flavors.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Domaine Sauvète

Planning a wine route in the of Loire Valley? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Domaine Sauvète.

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 Domaine Sauvète and wines from the region

The Mâcon plus appellation seen by Charles Lamboley

Charles Lamboley, marketing and communication director from Vignerons des Terres Secrètes, explains the differences between the appellation Mâcon-Villages and Mâcon plus a geographical denomination. This video is taken from the “Rendez-vous avec les vins de Bourgogne” program (March 2020). 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 t ...

An overview of Mâcon plus a geographical denomination appellation

The Bourgogne Wine Board (BIVB) invites you to a survey of this vineyard where the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation are produced. A unique journey to discover this region where the Romanesque churches punctuate the landscape and are the witnesses of the link between the vines and Christiannity. Cluny is the gatekeeper. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneWines/​​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vin ...

An overview of Saint-Véran appellation

Let’s have a look at Saint-Véran vineyard and discover the magnificent and very diverse landscapes of this appellation situated in the South of Bourgogne. Saint-Véran is one of the 5 Village appellations with Pouilly-Fuissé, Pouilly-Vinzelles, Pouilly-Loché and Viré-Clessé. Like them, it produces only white wines from the Chardonnay grape. What makes it special is that the vineyard is cut in two dinstinct parts by the vineyard of Pouilly-Fuissé. As anywhere else in the vineyard in Bourgogn ...

The word of the wine: Vineyard

Said of a wine with a certain alcoholic richness and clearly showing the characteristics that distinguish wine from other alcoholic beverages.