The Château Haut Grignon of Médoc of Bordeaux

Château Haut Grignon
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 909 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Médoc in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Haut Grignon is one of the best wineries to follow in Médoc.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Médoc to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Haut Grignon wines

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

The top red wines of Château Haut Grignon

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Haut Grignon

How Château Haut Grignon wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef goulash, couscous chicken and merguez or veal blanquette à l'ancienne.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Haut Grignon

On the nose the red wine of Château Haut Grignon. often reveals types of flavors of oak, black fruits or spices and sometimes also flavors of microbio, earth or non oak. In the mouth the red wine of Château Haut Grignon. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Haut Grignon

  • 2013With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.71/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.66/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.63/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.12/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Haut Grignon.

  • Petit Verdot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Franc

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Haut Grignon

Planning a wine route in the of Médoc? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Haut Grignon.

Discover the grape variety: Petit Verdot

Petit Verdot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (southwest). 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. Petit Verdot noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Armagnac.

News about Château Haut Grignon and wines from the region

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 ...

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Bordeaux 2021 harvest was 20% below 10-year average following spring frosts

The Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux (CIVB) revealed that the Bordeaux 2021 vintage was 20% below the region’s 10-year average. Bud burst came earlier than usual amid very sunny weather in March, and many young buds were then destroyed by severe frosts, which hammered the region in early April. It means that producers will have just 503 million bottles from the 2021 vintage, which is significantly below average. The region’s sweet whites, including Sauternes, suffered the sharpest y ...

The word of the wine: R-M (champagne)

Harvesting and handling. It is the artisan winemaker. He elaborates his own champagne, often a monocru representative of the village or the surrounding villages.