The Château Hountic of Moulis-en-Médoc of Bordeaux

Château Hountic - Moulis-en-Médoc
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is ranked in the top 72 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Moulis-en-Médoc in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Hountic is one of the world's great estates. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Moulis-en-Médoc to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Hountic wines

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

The top red wines of Château Hountic

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Hountic

How Château Hountic wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of braised beef with carrots, lamb with coconut milk or duck legs with cider and small onions.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Hountic

  • 2012With an average score of 3.60/5

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

  • Pinot Noir

Discovering the wine region of Moulis-en-Médoc

The wine region of Moulis-en-Médoc is located in the region of Médoc of Bordeaux of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Château Branas Grand Poujeaux or the Château Chasse-Spleen produce mainly wines red and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Moulis-en-Médoc are Cabernet-Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet franc, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Moulis-en-Médoc often reveals types of flavors of cherry, fig or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of oil, banana or walnut.

In the mouth of Moulis-en-Médoc is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 75 estates and châteaux in the of Moulis-en-Médoc, producing 117 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Moulis-en-Médoc go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Hountic

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

Discover the grape variety: Siegerrebe

An intraspecific cross between the Madeleine angevine and the Gewurztraminer obtained in 1929 by Georg Scheu at the Alzey testing station (Germany). Almost unknown in France, it can be found in Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, England, the United States, Canada, etc.

News about Château Hountic and wines from the region

Anthony Barton: tributes paid to Bordeaux wine great

The Barton family announced yesterday (19 January), ‘We have the immense sadness to inform you that our beloved Anthony Barton passed away at the age of 91 years old.’ Known as the ‘gentleman’ of Bordeaux wine and admired for his sense of humour and charisma, Anthony Barton was also widely respected for modernising family estates Léoville Barton and Langoa Barton – the respective 1855 second and third growth châteaux in the St-Julien appellation. Barton was credited, too, with maintaining ...

Anthony Barton: tributes paid to Bordeaux wine great

The Barton family announced yesterday (19 January), ‘We have the immense sadness to inform you that our beloved Anthony Barton passed away at the age of 91 years old.’ Known as the ‘gentleman’ of Bordeaux wine and admired for his sense of humour and charisma, Anthony Barton was also widely respected for modernising family estates Léoville Barton and Langoa Barton – the respective 1855 second and third growth châteaux in the St-Julien appellation. Barton was credited, too, with maintaining ...

Join us for our first Decanter Taste With The Experts event

For the first time ever, Decanter is offering readers and wine lovers alike the chance to see behind the scenes of our renowned panel tastings and experience first hand what it means to taste like an expert. Decanter’s panel tastings are one of the most rigorous exercises in blind tasting, where a panel of three experts taste and score up to 100 wines a day, based on criteria set by the Decanter editorial team. We’re delighted to announced that this autumn will see the start of our n ...

The word of the wine: Vaccaresis

Black grape variety, one of the 13 of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, which can be used in a blend in this appellation and other neighbouring AOCs (Côtes-du-Rhône, Gigondas...). It produces a floral, elegant and fresh wine, which balances the warmth of the Grenache. It is rare.