Château Haut-CanteloupMerlot - Cabernet Sauvignon Bordeaux Rosé
Pink wine
This wine is a blend of 3 varietals which are the Cabernet franc, the Cabernet-Sauvignon and the Merlot.
This wine generally goes well with pork, poultry or beef.
Food and wine pairings with Merlot - Cabernet Sauvignon Bordeaux Rosé
Pairings that work perfectly with Merlot - Cabernet Sauvignon Bordeaux Rosé
Original food and wine pairings with Merlot - Cabernet Sauvignon Bordeaux Rosé
The Merlot - Cabernet Sauvignon Bordeaux Rosé of Château Haut-Canteloup matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of spit-turned boar leg (oven) with "automatic watering"., lamb confit with new potatoes or homemade pork curry.
Details and technical informations about Château Haut-Canteloup's Merlot - Cabernet Sauvignon Bordeaux Rosé.
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 Merlot - Cabernet Sauvignon Bordeaux Rosé from Château Haut-Canteloup are 2009
Informations about the Château Haut-Canteloup
The Château Haut-Canteloup is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 12 wines for sale in the of Bordeaux to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Bordeaux
Bordeaux, in southwestern France, is one of the most famous, prestigious and prolific wine regions in the world. The majority of Bordeaux wines (nearly 90% of the production Volume) are the Dry, medium and Full-bodied red Bordeaux blends for which it is famous. The finest (and most expensive) are the wines of the great châteaux of Haut-Médoc and the right bank appellations of Saint-Émilion and Pomerol. The former focuses (at the highest level) on Cabernet Sauvignon, the latter on Merlot.
The word of the wine: White winemaking
White wines are obtained by fermentation of the juice after pressing. A pre-fermentation maceration is sometimes practiced to extract the aromatic substances from the skins. White wines are normally made from white grapes, but can also be made from red grapes (blanc de noirs). The grapes are then pressed as soon as they arrive at the vat house without maceration in order to prevent the colouring matter contained in the skins from "staining" the wine.
