Château de SurondeQuarts de Chaume
Sweet wine
This wine is composed of 100% of the grape variety Chenin Blanc.
This wine generally goes well with fruity desserts, lean fish or shellfish.
The Quarts de Chaume of the Château de Suronde is in the top 50 of wines of Quarts de Chaume.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Quarts de Chaume of Château de Suronde in the region of Loire Valley often reveals types of flavors of apples, apricot or caramel and sometimes also flavors of orange, honey or non oak.
Food and wine pairings with Quarts de Chaume
Pairings that work perfectly with Quarts de Chaume
Original food and wine pairings with Quarts de Chaume
The Quarts de Chaume of Château de Suronde matches generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, lean fish or fruity desserts such as recipes of chicken maffé (africa), fish paella or the coughing cat's apple crumble.
Details and technical informations about Château de Suronde's Quarts de Chaume.
Discover the grape variety: Chenin blanc
Chameleon whites with taut acidity, ranging from mineral dry (Savennières, Vouvray sec) to off-dry and medium-sweet (Vouvray, Montlouis), sumptuous botrytised sweet (Quarts-de-Chaume, Bonnezeaux, Coteaux du Layon) and brilliant sparkling (Crémant de Loire, Vouvray brut). Aromas of quince, apple, honey, white flowers, beeswax and flint. An Anjou variety, also star of South Africa's Western Cape.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Quarts de Chaume from Château de Suronde are 1996, 2006, 2009, 2005 and 1997.
Informations about the Château de Suronde
The Château de Suronde is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 11 wines for sale in the of Quarts de Chaume to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Quarts de Chaume
The only Grand Cru of the Loire Valley (2011, ~40 ha in Anjou-Layon): 100% Chenin as extraordinarily complex, multi-decade sweet wines. Golden to old-gold robe, aromas of candied fruit, honey, quince and saffron notes. Successive manual tries of botrytised bunches (Botrytis cinerea), minimum 298 g/L sugar before fermentation, maximum yield 20 hl/ha. South-facing slope above morning mists of the Layon river — exceptional botrytis on draining Brioverian schists.
The wine region of Loire Valley
Kingdom of lively, dry whites and fine sparklers. Mineral, taut Sauvignon Blanc (Sancerre, Pouilly-Fumé) with citrus and gunflint notes. Multiform Chenin Blanc (Vouvray, Savennières, Layon): straight dry, floral off-dry or noble sweet honey-quince. Saline, iodised Muscadet (Melon B.
The word of the wine: Cellar
A place for storing and ageing wines in bottles. This term designates both the cellar of a private individual and that of a restaurant. It is also a store dedicated to the retail sale of wine.
