The Winery Franck Despagne of Libournais of Bordeaux

Winery Franck Despagne
The winery offers 10 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 661 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Libournais in the region of Bordeaux

The Winery Franck Despagne is one of the best wineries to follow in Libournais.. It offers 10 wines for sale in of Libournais to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Franck Despagne wines

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

The top pink wines of Winery Franck Despagne

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Franck Despagne

How Winery Franck Despagne wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of aïoli, mushroom, bacon and gruyere quiche or quick coconut milk chicken.

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot

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 red wines of Winery Franck Despagne

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Franck Despagne

How Winery Franck Despagne wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef stew provencal style, blanquette of veal in the old way (self-cooker) or roast venison with green pepper sauce.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Franck Despagne

On the nose the red wine of Winery Franck Despagne. often reveals types of flavors of oaky, red fruit or vanilla and sometimes also flavors of leather, black fruits or cheese. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Franck Despagne. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Franck Despagne

  • 2017With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2006With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.89/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.85/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.84/5

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.

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Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). 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 to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

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The word of the wine: Cooperative cellar

A collective production structure to which winegrowers belong in order to pool their grapes, transform them into wine and ensure its marketing.