The Château Guittot Fellonneau of Médoc of Bordeaux

Château Guittot Fellonneau - Haut-Médoc
Only one wine is currently referenced in this domain
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.
It is ranked in the top 1022 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Médoc in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Guittot Fellonneau is one of the best wineries to follow in Médoc.. It offers 1 wines for sale in of Médoc to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Guittot Fellonneau wines

Looking for the best Château Guittot Fellonneau wines in Médoc among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Guittot Fellonneau 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 Guittot Fellonneau wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château Guittot Fellonneau

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Guittot Fellonneau

How Château Guittot Fellonneau wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of seven o'clock leg of lamb, mathieu's lamb tagine or rabbit socks in gibelotte.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Guittot Fellonneau

On the nose the red wine of Château Guittot Fellonneau. often reveals types of flavors of tobacco, non oak or earth and sometimes also flavors of oak, black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Château Guittot Fellonneau. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Guittot Fellonneau

  • 2005With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2000With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2004With an average score of 4.10/5

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

  • Merlot
  • Petit Verdot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Malbec

Discovering the wine region of Médoc

Bordeaux's Médoc is an area of coastal lagoons, sand dunes and pine forests located on the 45th parallel. It is also a global wine powerhouse, and home to four of the world's most prestigious wine villages: Pauillac, Margaux, Saint-Estèphe and Saint-Julien. The estates located in these villages produce some of the most expensive bottles in the world. The region has also provided all but one of the châteaux included in the official 1855 Bordeaux wine classification (Haut-Brion).

The Médoc vineyards cover about 16,000 hectares, including the various small appellations. Approximately 5500 hectares of vines are classified for the production of AOC/AOP Médoc wines. Wedged between the Atlantic coast and the wide Gironde estuary, the Médoc is in fact a peninsula. It stretches 80 kilometres (50 miles) to the northwest, from the city of Bordeaux to the Pointe de Grave.

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Discover the grape variety: Malbec

Malbec, a high-yielding red grape variety, produces tannic and colourful wines. It is produced in different wine-growing regions and changes its name according to the grape variety. Called Auxerrois in Cahors, Malbec in Bordeaux, it is also known as Côt. 6,000 hectares of the Malbec grape are grown in France (in decline since the 1950s). Malbec is also very successful in Argentina. The country has become the world's leading producer of Malbec and offers wines with great potential.

News about Château Guittot Fellonneau and wines from the region

Château Lafon-Rochet appoints Christophe Congé as MD

Having joined Domaine Barons de Rothschild in 1999, Congé has since held the role of oenologist and wine operations manager across Château Lafite Rothschild and Château Duhart Milon for over 22 years. He has now been appointed MD of  Saint-Estèphe fourth growth Château Lafon-Rochet. He takes on his new role with immediate effect. Congé will work closely with Emmanuel Cruse, director of Vignobles Cruse-Lorenzetti, which acquired Château Lafon-Rochet from the Tesseron family last year. The appoint ...

Bordeaux ‘Act for Change’ symposium

The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C  in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...

Decanter magazine latest issue: July 2022

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The word of the wine: Bright

Said of a wine whose acidity is the dominant characteristic, making it fresh and nervous.

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