Winery Terres de MuscatSelection Petit Grain Muscat de Saint Jean de Minervois
Natural sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with spicy food and sweet desserts.
The Selection Petit Grain Muscat de Saint Jean de Minervois of the Winery Terres de Muscat is in the top 5 of wines of Muscat de St. Jean de Minervois.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Selection Petit Grain Muscat de Saint Jean de Minervois of Winery Terres de Muscat in the region of Languedoc-Roussillon often reveals types of flavors of tropical, non oak or dried fruit and sometimes also flavors of floral, citrus fruit or tree fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Selection Petit Grain Muscat de Saint Jean de Minervois
Pairings that work perfectly with Selection Petit Grain Muscat de Saint Jean de Minervois
Original food and wine pairings with Selection Petit Grain Muscat de Saint Jean de Minervois
The Selection Petit Grain Muscat de Saint Jean de Minervois of Winery Terres de Muscat matches generally quite well with dishes of spicy food or sweet desserts such as recipes of californian sushi (reverse maki) or express cherry clafoutis.
Details and technical informations about Winery Terres de Muscat's Selection Petit Grain Muscat de Saint Jean de Minervois.
Discover the grape variety: Aurore
Interspecific cross between 788 Seibel x 29 Seibel - like 4638 white Seibel - obtained by Albert Seibel (1844-1936).
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Selection Petit Grain Muscat de Saint Jean de Minervois from Winery Terres de Muscat are 2016, 2014, 2012, 2015 and 2013.
Informations about the Winery Terres de Muscat
The Winery Terres de Muscat is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 1 wines for sale in the of Muscat de St. Jean de Minervois to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Muscat de St. Jean de Minervois
Muscat de Saint-Jean-de-Minervois is a Sweet, fortified, natural wine appellation from the Languedoc wine region in Southern France. The wines are based on the Muscat Blanc a Petits Grains Grape variety. Muscat de Saint-Jean-de-Minervois wines are produced using a traditional sweet winemaking process called Mutage, which involves adding Alcohol to the grape must to prematurely stop the Yeast">yeast and thus the Fermentation process. They generally have a residual sugar content of about 125 grams per litre and an alcohol content of about 15%.
The wine region of Languedoc-Roussillon
Languedoc (formerly Coteaux du Languedoc) is a key appellation used in the Languedoc-Roussillon wine region of southern France. It covers Dry table wines of all three colors (red, white and rosé) from the entire region, but leaves Sweet and Sparkling wines to other more specialized appellations. About 75% of all Languedoc wines are red, with the remaining 25% split roughly down the middle between whites and rosés. The appellation covers most of the Languedoc region and almost a third of all the vineyards in France.
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The word of the wine: Maceration
Prolonged contact and exchange between the juice and the grape solids, especially the skin. Not to be confused with the time of fermentation, which follows maceration. The juice becomes loaded with colouring matter and tannins, and acquires aromas. For a rosé, the maceration is short so that the colour does not "rise" too much. For white wines too, a "pellicular maceration" can be practised, which allows the wine to acquire more fat.
