The Château Gasquet of Costières-de-Nîmes of Rhone Valley

Château Gasquet - Costières De Nîmes Vieilles Vignes
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 2.8.
It is ranked in the top 466 of the estates of Rhone Valley.
It is located in Costières-de-Nîmes in the region of Rhone Valley

The Château Gasquet is one of the best wineries to follow in Costières-de-Nîmes.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Costières-de-Nîmes to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Gasquet wines

Looking for the best Château Gasquet wines in Costières-de-Nîmes among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Gasquet 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 Gasquet wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château Gasquet

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Gasquet

How Château Gasquet wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of blanquette of veal in pickle sauce, traditional flemish carbonades or blanquette of rabbit with riesling and chanterelles.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Gasquet

  • 2013With an average score of 2.70/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Gasquet.

  • Pinot Noir

Discovering the wine region of Costières-de-Nîmes

The wine region of Costières-de-Nîmes is located in the region of Rhône méridional of Rhone Valley of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Scamandre or the Château d'Or et de Gueules produce mainly wines red, pink and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Costières-de-Nîmes are Mourvèdre, Roussanne and Viognier, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Costières-de-Nîmes often reveals types of flavors of non oak, thyme or raisin and sometimes also flavors of clove, cocoa or coffee.

In the mouth of Costières-de-Nîmes is a powerful with a nice freshness. We currently count 316 estates and châteaux in the of Costières-de-Nîmes, producing 875 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Costières-de-Nîmes go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Gasquet

Planning a wine route in the of Costières-de-Nîmes? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Gasquet.

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.

News about Château Gasquet and wines from the region

Walls’ hidden gems: Domaine La Ferme St-Martin, Beaumes de Venise

Onwards, upwards. The roads get narrower, the corners get tighter. I step out of the car when I finally reach the winery and the air is so much fresher here. I go to take a sip from my water bottle and a gust of wind makes it whistle. I stand with Thomas Jullien and we look over the vineyards. It’s not yet spring, and the vines look little more than sticks. ‘It’s a lunar landscape at the moment,’ he says, as a friend’s flock of 300 sheep has just passed through to graze on every scrap of green b ...

Buying wine en primeur: How to approach it

Colin Hay, a professor of political economy with a special interest in the Place de Bordeaux, considers the different ways of approaching en primeur purchasing, ahead of this year’s 2021 campaign. Buying en primeur wines is a rather strange and, arguably, arcane system of buying and selling in which the consumer purchases the wine typically in the early summer following the vintage even though it will not be bottled and delivered for a further 12-18 months. It is, in effect, a futures mark ...

LVMH buys Napa Valley’s Joseph Phelps Vineyards

Philippe Schaus, chairman and chief executive of the Moët Hennessy division of LVMH, called Joseph Phelps Vineyards ‘an iconic name and an iconic winery’. Joseph Phelps founded his eponymous winery on a 260ha former cattle ranch in Napa Valley in 1973. He turned it into one of California’s most prominent producers, famed for its flagship Insignia – a Bordeaux-style blend – and its pioneering use of Rhône varieties, which kick-started the ‘Rhône Rangers’ movement in the Golden State. The founder’ ...

The word of the wine: Botrytis

Fungus that causes grape rot.