The Winery Francois de Nicolay is one of the best wineries to follow in Côte de Nuits.. It offers 28 wines for sale in of Côte de Nuits to come and discover on site or to buy online.
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How Winery Francois de Nicolay wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of tunisian molokheya, roast veal orloff with mushrooms or cassoulet of yesteryear.
On the nose the red wine of Winery Francois de Nicolay. often reveals types of flavors of earth, cherry or red fruit and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Francois de Nicolay. is a with a nice freshness.
The Côte de Nuits is the northern half of the Côte d'Or wine region in Burgundy (the Southern half being the Côte de Beaune). It specializes in red wines made from Pinot noir grapes, the most famous and expensive of which come from the grand crus of Vosne-Romanée and Chambolle-Musigny.
About 95% of all wines produced in the Côte de Nuits are made from a single grape variety: Pinot Noir. The district is widely regarded as the spiritual home of Pinot Noir, a reputation strongly reinforced by such high quality wines as the Grand Cru Romanée-Conti.
The remaining 5% of Côte de Nuits wines are white, made from Burgundy's other star grape, Chardonnay. The district is not known for its white wines - the Côte de Beaune is the white wine mecca of Burgundy - but the few wines that are produced there are generally of very high quality. The finest are produced under the Vougeot Premier Cru appellation, but a small number come from the Musigny Grand Cru Vineyard.
While the Côte de Beaune, to the south, is larger and more prolific, the Côte de Nuits favours quality over quantity.
It is home to some of the world's finest red wine vineyards and includes 24 of Burgundy's 33 Grand Crus.
The main town is Nuits-Saint-Georges, known as Nuits until it adopted the name of its most favoured vineyard, Les Saint-Georges, in the late 19th century. Although located at the southern end of the coast, Nuits-Saint-Georges is less than 16 km from the northernmost vineyard of the Côte de Nuits, at Marsannay, which demonstrates the small Size of the area in question. Tracing the limestone spine of the Côte d'Or escarpment, the Côte de Nuits is Long and thin, measuring only 24 km from end to end and 3.
How Winery Francois de Nicolay wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of ham lasagness, quick salmon and zucchini lasagna or spaghetti with clams.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Francois de Nicolay. often reveals types of flavors of green apple, minerality or lemon and sometimes also flavors of non oak, earth or tree fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Francois de Nicolay. is a powerful with a nice freshness.
The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). 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 bunches, and small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.
How Winery Francois de Nicolay wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of sauté of veal with the moulinex cookeo, boeuf en daube or rabbit in foil.
Aphid that came from America and ravaged European vineyards at the end of the 19th century. It lives on the roots of the vine, from which it pumps the sap. The only vines capable of resisting it had to be imported from the United States, and then grafted onto their root system the wood of traditional French grape varieties. Today, grafted vines are always planted.
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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.
