The Château Frere is one of the world's great estates. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Premières Côtes de Bordeaux to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Château Frere wines in Premières Côtes de Bordeaux among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Frere 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 Château Frere wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Château Frere wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of stuffed zucchini, alsatian wine pie or duck breast with pepper sauce.
On the nose the red wine of Château Frere. often reveals types of flavors of oaky, vanilla or plum and sometimes also flavors of chocolate, dark fruit or non oak. In the mouth the red wine of Château Frere. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
The wine region of Premières Côtes de Bordeaux is located in the region of Côtes de Bordeaux of Bordeaux of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Château Lafitte or the Château Peyruchet produce mainly wines red, white and sweet. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Premières Côtes de Bordeaux are Cabernet-Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet franc, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Premières Côtes de Bordeaux often reveals types of flavors of leather, melon or dried fruit and sometimes also flavors of peach, minerality or apricot.
In the mouth of Premières Côtes de Bordeaux is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 202 estates and châteaux in the of Premières Côtes de Bordeaux, producing 265 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Premières Côtes de Bordeaux go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison).
Planning a wine route in the of Premières Côtes de Bordeaux? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Frere.
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.
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 ...
Disconcerting: I couldn’t forget this bottle for days afterwards. Still can’t. Back in August, wine critic Lin Liu MW (together with her partner Philippe Lejeune of Château de Chambert in Cahors) came to dinner, en route to a short holiday in Provence. One of the bottles Lin brought for us to try together was the 2018 Les Rocheuses, Parcelles No 5 et 6, from Château Le Rey in Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux. It came in a slope-shouldered bottle, not a classic Bordeaux bottle. We tried it with some R ...
The Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux (CIVB) revealed that the Bordeaux 2021 vintage was 20% below the region’s 10-year average. Bud burst came earlier than usual amid very sunny weather in March, and many young buds were then destroyed by severe frosts, which hammered the region in early April. It means that producers will have just 503 million bottles from the 2021 vintage, which is significantly below average. The region’s sweet whites, including Sauternes, suffered the sharpest y ...
Qualifier of smells close to those of smoked food, characteristic, among other things, of the Sauvignon grape variety; hence the name of smoked white given to this variety.
