Winery Gérard BertrandRéserve Spéciale Vieilles Vignes Carignan
Red wine
This wine generally goes well with beef and spicy food.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Réserve Spéciale Vieilles Vignes Carignan of Winery Gérard Bertrand in the region of Pays d'Oc often reveals types of flavors of oak, spices or red fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Réserve Spéciale Vieilles Vignes Carignan
Pairings that work perfectly with Réserve Spéciale Vieilles Vignes Carignan
Original food and wine pairings with Réserve Spéciale Vieilles Vignes Carignan
The Réserve Spéciale Vieilles Vignes Carignan of Winery Gérard Bertrand matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or spicy food such as recipes of korean bibimbap or coral lentil salad.
Details and technical informations about Winery Gérard Bertrand's Réserve Spéciale Vieilles Vignes Carignan.
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.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Réserve Spéciale Vieilles Vignes Carignan from Winery Gérard Bertrand are 2011, 2009, 2013, 2012 and 2010.
Informations about the Winery Gérard Bertrand
The Winery Gérard Bertrand is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 397 wines for sale in the of Pays d'Oc to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Pays d'Oc
Pays d'Oc is the PGI for red, white and rosé wines that are produced over a wide area of the southern coast of France. The PGI catchment area corresponds roughly to the Languedoc-roussillon">Languedoc-Roussillon wine region, one of the largest wine regions in France. The area covers all wines that are not produced under the strict laws that govern AOC-level appellations in the regions: among them, Corbières, Minervois and the Languedoc appellation itself. The Pays d'Oc PGI is arguably the most important in France, producing the majority of the country's PGI wines.
The word of the wine: Arching
A stage in the vegetative cycle of the vine that occurs after the leaves have fallen and is characterized by the drying out of the soft shoots, which are transformed into hard shoots by lignification.
