Winery HarrodsSauternes
Sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with fruity desserts and blue cheese.
Food and wine pairings with Sauternes
Pairings that work perfectly with Sauternes
Original food and wine pairings with Sauternes
The Sauternes of Winery Harrods matches generally quite well with dishes of fruity desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of rice with milk or broccoli and roquefort quiche.
Details and technical informations about Winery Harrods's Sauternes.
Discover the grape variety: Muscadine
Sweet and liqueur wines with a highly distinctive foxy, musky character, amber to golden colour, lush palate, showing powerful signature aromas of wild muscat (foxy signature), exotic fruits, flowers and earthy notes. Distinctly southern American identity. Grown in the south-eastern United States (Carolinas, Florida), resistant to phylloxera and disease, used in modern hybridisation programmes. Family of American varieties of the Vitis rotundifolia species.
Informations about the Winery Harrods
The Winery Harrods is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 39 wines for sale in the of Sauternes to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Sauternes
Iconic Bordeaux AOC for noble sweet wines, left bank of the Garonne. Golden whites with signature notes of honey, candied apricot, exotic fruit, orange peel, saffron and a finish tightened by chiselled acidity, opulent yet nervy palate — a great age-worthy wine of emotion. Botrytised Semillon dominates (Ciron 'noble rot') concentrating sugars, Sauvignon Blanc adds vivacity, Muscadelle perfume. ~1,416 ha across 5 villages.
The wine region of Bordeaux
World-renowned age-worthy reds, led by round Merlot (plum, black fruit) or firm Cabernet Sauvignon (blackcurrant, cedar, graphite), blended with Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot for tannic structure. Structured Médoc and Graves, velvety Saint-Émilion and Pomerol. Also crisp dry whites (Sauvignon/Sémillon) and opulent sweet Sauternes with honey and candied fruit. A 110,000 ha Gironde vineyard, 65 appellations, cradle of the 1855 classified growths.
The word of the wine: Discharge
In the traditional method, elimination of the yeast deposit formed during the second fermentation in the bottle.
