The Winery Gatines of Vin de Pays

Winery Gatines - Anjou
The winery offers 5 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 3084 of the estates of Vin de Pays.
It is located in Vin de Pays

The Winery Gatines is one of the best wineries to follow in Vin de Pays.. It offers 5 wines for sale in of Vin de Pays to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Gatines wines

Looking for the best Winery Gatines wines in Vin de Pays among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Gatines 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 Gatines wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Gatines

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Gatines

How Winery Gatines wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of cabri en colombo with creole sauce, pasta "carbonara" à la française or duck with orange and honey.

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

  • Cabernet Franc
  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discovering the wine region of Vin de Pays

Vin de Pays (VDP), the French national equivalent of PGI (Protected Geographical Indication) at the European level, is a quality category of French wines, positioned between Vin de Table (VDT) and Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC). This layer of the French appellation system was initially introduced in September 1968 by the INAO, the official appellation authority. It underwent several early revisions in the 1970s, followed by substantial changes in September 2000 and again in 2009, when all existing VDT titles were automatically registered with the European Union as PGI. Producers retain the choice of using either the VDP or PGI titles on their labels, or both - in the form "IGP-Vin de Pays".

There are now more than 150 VDP/IGP titles, mainly covering the southern third of France. The "Vin de Pays" level is intended to benefit both consumers and wine producers. It allows consumers to know clearly where a wine comes from, while producers are empowered to produce wine outside the constraints of traditional AOC laws. The most obvious freedoms are the higher yields allowed and a more comprehensive list of permitted Grape varieties.

The top white wines of Winery Gatines

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Gatines

How Winery Gatines wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

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.

The top pink wines of Winery Gatines

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Gatines

How Winery Gatines wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The word of the wine: Golden

Brown colour with red and yellow reflections characteristic of evolved wines.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Gatines

Planning a wine route in the of Vin de Pays? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Gatines.

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon blanc

Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.

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The word of the wine: Golden

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