The Domaine François Buffet of Côte de Beaune of Burgundy

Domaine François Buffet - Bourgogne Aligoté 'Les Fâts'
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 698 of the estates of Burgundy.
It is located in Côte de Beaune in the region of Burgundy

The Domaine François Buffet is one of the best wineries to follow in Côte de Beaune.. It offers 19 wines for sale in of Côte de Beaune to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Domaine François Buffet wines

Looking for the best Domaine François Buffet wines in Côte de Beaune among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Domaine François Buffet 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 François Buffet wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Domaine François Buffet

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Domaine François Buffet

How Domaine François Buffet wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of wok of chinese noodles with vegetables, pan bagnat or mussels with bleu de bresse.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Domaine François Buffet

In the mouth the white wine of Domaine François Buffet. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Domaine François Buffet

  • 2011With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.50/5

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

  • Aligoté

Discovering the wine region of Côte de Beaune

The Côte de Burgundy/cote-de-beaune/beaune">Beaune is a key wine region in Burgundy, eastern France. It owes its name to its main town, Beaune - the epicentre of local wine production and trade. Renowned for producing some of the world's most expensive white wines (most of which bear the name Montrachet in one form or another), the region also produces a handful of Burgundy's finest red wines, including those from the premier crus Pommard and grand cru Corton. As with most Burgundy wines, the white wines are made from Hardonnay">Chardonnay, the reds from Pinot Noir.

The Côte de Beaune is a narrow strip of land less than 5 kilometers wide, extending 25 kilometers to the northeast. The main Vineyard of the Côte de Beaune is almost exactly the same Size and shape as its northern counterpart, the Côte de Nuits. Together, these two regions form the Côte d'Or, a region named after the Côte d'Or and characterized by the Côte d'Or limestone escarpment that forms its backbone. The importance of this escarpment to Côte de Beaune viticulture is hard to underestimate; not only does it protect the vineyards from the prevailing westerly winds, but it also provides gently sloping, free-draining vineyard sites with near-perfect South and southeast aspects.

The top red wines of Domaine François Buffet

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Domaine François Buffet

How Domaine François Buffet wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of veal shank with mushrooms, veal head with vinaigrette or duck fillets with honey.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Domaine François Buffet

On the nose the red wine of Domaine François Buffet. often reveals types of flavors of strawberries, red fruit or black fruit and sometimes also flavors of non oak, earth or cherry. In the mouth the red wine of Domaine François Buffet. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Domaine François Buffet

  • 2007With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 1994With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2013With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2016With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.99/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.95/5

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

  • Pinot Noir

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Pinot noir is an important red grape variety in Burgundy and Champagne, and its reputation is well known! Great wines such as the Domaine de la Romanée Conti elaborate their wines from this famous grape variety, and make it a great variety. When properly vinified, pinot noit produces red wines of great finesse, with a wide range of aromas depending on its advancement (fruit, undergrowth, leather). it is also the only red grape variety authorized in Alsace. Pinot Noir is not easily cultivated beyond our borders, although it has enjoyed some success in Oregon, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

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Discover the grape variety: Aligoté

Aligoté is an ancient Burgundian grape variety (it has different names depending on the region in which it is grown: griset blanc in Beaune, giboudot blanc in the Chalonnais or troyen blanc in the Aube), mainly used in the production of Bourgogne-Aligoté, Bouzeron and Crémant-de-Bourgogne.aligoté is a medium-fine white grape variety, quite productive, which gives clear, acidic, fresh and light white wines. An anecdote often says that it was a member of the clergy named Kir who gave it its letters of nobility by adding it to blackcurrant cream to prepare an aperitif.produced on more than 1,600 hectares in Burgundy, aligoté has also been exported. It is also cultivated in Eastern Europe (Ukraine, Romania), California, Canada and Chile, representing more than 20,000 hectares in the world.

News about Domaine François Buffet and wines from the region

Master Sommelier Larry Stone explains why he sold Lingua Franca to Constellation Brands

Stone will remain on board as a brand ambassador and adviser to the business he created back in 2012. The winemaking team, spearheaded by Thomas Savre and Burgundian consultant Dominique Lafon, is still in place too. ‘We’re all still there and we’re going to keep making great wine, but we will have better resources,’ Stone told Decanter.com. Stone, a Master Sommelier, purchased the 61 hectares Janzen Farm in Oregon’s Willamette Valley on December 31, 2012. He had been working at Evening Land’s a ...

Errazuriz wine photographer of the year revealed

Jon Wyand has been crowned Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Year after impressing the judges with his beautiful shot of a Burgundian vineyard worker gathering prunings. The photograph was taken on a crisp winter’s day at Montagne de Corton Hill in the Côte de Beaune. ‘The winning image evokes with stark beauty the reality of wine growing – you are always at the mercy of nature,’ said wine writer Joanna Simon, one of the judges. ‘But there’s an extra element here: is he scruti ...

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

The word of the wine: Pigeage

Operation consisting of a vertical treading to push the cap of marc into the wine, which promotes extraction. Pigeage can be carried out mechanically with jacks that plunge into the vat. Traditionally, it is the men who go down into the vats and push the cap by trampling it.