The Winery Gérard Millet of Loire Valley

Winery Gérard Millet - Chêne Marchand Sancerre
The winery offers 8 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.
It is ranked in the top 142 of the estates of Loire Valley.
It is located in Loire Valley
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The Winery Gérard Millet is one of the best wineries to follow in Vallée de la Loire.. It offers 8 wines for sale in of Loire Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Gérard Millet wines

Looking for the best Winery Gérard Millet wines in Loire Valley among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Gérard Millet 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 Gérard Millet wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Gérard Millet

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Gérard Millet

How Winery Gérard Millet wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, shellfish or spicy food such as recipes of spaghetti carbonara, brochette of scallops and prawns or traditional lamb couscous (from algeria).

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Gérard Millet

On the nose the white wine of Winery Gérard Millet. often reveals types of flavors of grapefruit, melon or citrus fruit and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, oak or vegetal. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Gérard Millet. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Gérard Millet

  • 2015With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2016With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2012With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.03/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.97/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Gérard Millet.

  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discovering the wine region of Loire Valley

The Loire Valley is a key wine region in western France. It follows the course of the Loire River on its Long journey through the heart of France, from the inland hills of the Auvergne to the plains of the French Atlantic coast near Nantes (Muscadet country). Important in terms of quantity and quality, the region produces large quantities (about 4 million h/l each year) of everyday wines, as well as some of France's greatest wines. Diversity is another of the region's major assets; the styles of wine produced here range from the light, tangy Muscadet to the Sweet, honeyed Bonnezeaux, the Sparkling whites of Vouvray and the juicy, Tannic reds of Chinon and Saumur.

It's quite telling that this brief overview of the region's wines doesn't even mention the Loire Valley's two most famous wines - Sancerre and Pouilly-Fume. White wines are clearly the strong point of the Loire Valley and represent the vast majority of production. A significant proportion of these are produced under PGI appellations, most commonly the IGP Loire (formerly Vin de Pays du Jardin de la France), which covers the whole region. The main white Grape varieties used for the production of white wines in the Loire Valley are Sauvignon Blanc, Chenin Blanc, Melon de Bourgogne and, more popular than the traditional, Chardonnay.

The top pink wines of Winery Gérard Millet

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Gérard Millet

How Winery Gérard Millet wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of guinea fowl with olives, potato and bacon omelette or potjevleesch (meat in a pot).

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Gérard Millet

  • 2017With an average score of 4.20/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Gérard Millet.

  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Pinot Noir

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon

Sauvignon Gris is a grape variety that originated in France (South-West). 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 bunches and small grapes. Sauvignon Gris can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Burgundy, Jura, Beaujolais, Armagnac, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey.

The top red wines of Winery Gérard Millet

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Gérard Millet

How Winery Gérard Millet wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, game (deer, venison) or poultry such as recipes of veal chop with mushrooms, stuffed cabbage leaves or chicken fillets with mustard and cream.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Gérard Millet

On the nose the red wine of Winery Gérard Millet. often reveals types of flavors of citrus, green apple or red fruit and sometimes also flavors of pear, earth or tree fruit.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Gérard Millet

  • 2015With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2019With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.80/5

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

  • Pinot Noir

The word of the wine: Mou

Said of a wine unbalanced by its lack of acidity.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Gérard Millet

Planning a wine route in the of Loire Valley? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Gérard Millet.

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 Winery Gérard Millet and wines from the region

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Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

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The word of the wine: Mou

Said of a wine unbalanced by its lack of acidity.

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