The Winery Guy Bocard of Côte de Beaune of Burgundy

Winery Guy Bocard - Bourgogne Chardonnay
The winery offers 12 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 701 of the estates of Burgundy.
It is located in Côte de Beaune in the region of Burgundy

The Winery Guy Bocard is one of the best wineries to follow in Côte de Beaune.. It offers 12 wines for sale in of Côte de Beaune to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Guy Bocard wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Guy Bocard

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Guy Bocard

How Winery Guy Bocard wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of eggplant lasagna, fish pot or stuffed squid in the sétoise sauce.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Guy Bocard

On the nose the white wine of Winery Guy Bocard. often reveals types of flavors of citrus, non oak or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, citrus fruit or earth. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Guy Bocard. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Guy Bocard

  • 2001With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2007With an average score of 4.17/5
  • 2008With an average score of 4.14/5
  • 2012With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2005With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2002With an average score of 3.80/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Guy Bocard.

  • Chardonnay
  • Aligoté

Discovering the wine region of Côte de Beaune

The Côte de Burgundy/cote-de-beaune/beaune">Beaune is a key wine region in Burgundy, eastern France. It owes its name to its main town, Beaune - the epicentre of local wine production and trade. Renowned for producing some of the world's most expensive white wines (most of which bear the name Montrachet in one form or another), the region also produces a handful of Burgundy's finest red wines, including those from the premier crus Pommard and grand cru Corton. As with most Burgundy wines, the white wines are made from Hardonnay">Chardonnay, the reds from Pinot Noir.

The Côte de Beaune is a narrow strip of land less than 5 kilometers wide, extending 25 kilometers to the northeast. The main Vineyard of the Côte de Beaune is almost exactly the same Size and shape as its northern counterpart, the Côte de Nuits. Together, these two regions form the Côte d'Or, a region named after the Côte d'Or and characterized by the Côte d'Or limestone escarpment that forms its backbone. The importance of this escarpment to Côte de Beaune viticulture is hard to underestimate; not only does it protect the vineyards from the prevailing westerly winds, but it also provides gently sloping, free-draining vineyard sites with near-perfect South and southeast aspects.

The top red wines of Winery Guy Bocard

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Guy Bocard

How Winery Guy Bocard wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of home-made coq au vin, salted lentils or rabbit with beer and mustard.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Guy Bocard

  • 2011With an average score of 3.65/5

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

  • Pinot Noir

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Guy Bocard

Planning a wine route in the of Côte de Beaune? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Guy Bocard.

Discover the grape variety: Aligoté

Aligoté is an ancient Burgundian grape variety (it has different names depending on the region in which it is grown: griset blanc in Beaune, giboudot blanc in the Chalonnais or troyen blanc in the Aube), mainly used in the production of Bourgogne-Aligoté, Bouzeron and Crémant-de-Bourgogne.aligoté is a medium-fine white grape variety, quite productive, which gives clear, acidic, fresh and light white wines. An anecdote often says that it was a member of the clergy named Kir who gave it its letters of nobility by adding it to blackcurrant cream to prepare an aperitif.produced on more than 1,600 hectares in Burgundy, aligoté has also been exported. It is also cultivated in Eastern Europe (Ukraine, Romania), California, Canada and Chile, representing more than 20,000 hectares in the world.

News about Winery Guy Bocard and wines from the region

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

Louis-Fabrice Latour: Obituary

Latour was the 11th generation of his family to lead Maison Louis Latour (and the seventh named Louis Latour). The house of Latour was formally founded in 1797, although the roots go back to the first vineyards purchased in 1731 by Denis Latour. The Latour family originally worked as coopers, and Denis’ son Jean moved to Aloxe-Corton to set up an independent cooperage and later to found Maison Louis Latour, naming the business after his son. The house of Latour remains closely associated with th ...

An overview of the Rully appellation

The Bourgogne Wine Board (BIVB) invites you to a survey above the vineyard of Rully. Situated at the end of the Côte de Beaune region, it marks the begining of the côte chalonnaise with such a diversity of landscapes. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneWines/​​​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinsdebourgogne/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bivb​​​​ Find out more on our website: https://www.bourgogne-wines ...

The word of the wine: Douçâtre

Soft wine with a dominant sweetness at the expense of freshness.