The Winery Gelas is one of the best wineries to follow in Sud-Ouest.. It offers 1 wines for sale in of South West to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Gelas wines in South West among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Gelas 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 Gelas wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Gelas wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of mature and hard cheese, fruity desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of shepherd's pie (potatoes, beef, carrots, bacon), grandma's cherry clafoutis or spätzle with roquefort cheese and bacon au gratin.
The South-West is a large territorial area of France, comprising the administrative regions of Aquitaine, Limousin and Midi-Pyrénées. However, as far as the French wine area is concerned, the South-West region is a little less clear-cut, as it excludes Bordeaux - a wine region so productive that it is de facto an area in its own right. The wines of the South West have a Long and eventful history. The local rivers play a key role, as they were the main trade routes to bring wines from traditional regions such as Cahors, Bergerac, Buzet and Gaillac to their markets.
The last Trading post before the wines left for the lucrative markets of Britain was the wine town and port of Bordeaux. Britain has been a historic trading partner for the region, which was nominally British for a period following the marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine to Henry II of Britain. However, Bordeaux businessmen saw the wines in transit as competition for their own local products and took strong measures to ensure their financial security. The result is the French wine map we know today, with Bordeaux being promoted and the other wine regions of the South West struggling to gain recognition for the diversity and Character of their wines.
This history also explains why the Bordeaux Grapes Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Sauvignon Blanc are now three of the best-known grape varieties in the world, while traditional South West grapes such as Fer Servadou, Len de l'El and Tannat are relatively unknown.
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This variety has been cultivated for a very long time in Italy - currently in second place - and is very well known in Piedmont. It is, however, little known in France and is registered in the Official Catalogue of Wine Grape Varieties, list A1. It is not related to the white barbera, which also comes from the same country and region. It should be noted that other Italian grape varieties, mainly black, bear the name barbera, which should not be confused with the black Barbera that can also be found in Eastern Europe, South Africa and America.
