The Château Les Grandes Mottes of Bordeaux

Château Les Grandes Mottes - Blaye - Côtes de Bordeaux
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 6318 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Bordeaux

The Château Les Grandes Mottes is one of the best wineries to follow in Bordeaux.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Bordeaux to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Les Grandes Mottes wines

Looking for the best Château Les Grandes Mottes wines in Bordeaux among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Les Grandes Mottes 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 Les Grandes Mottes wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château Les Grandes Mottes

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Les Grandes Mottes

How Château Les Grandes Mottes wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of roast monkfish with bacon, veal meatballs with curry or potjevleesch (meat in a pot).

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Les Grandes Mottes

On the nose the red wine of Château Les Grandes Mottes. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, earthy or mushroom and sometimes also flavors of non oak, earth or microbio. In the mouth the red wine of Château Les Grandes Mottes. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Les Grandes Mottes

  • 2015With an average score of 3.64/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.47/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.20/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Les Grandes Mottes.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Malbec
  • Merlot
  • Petit Verdot

Discovering 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 legendary reds are complemented by high-quality white wines made from Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc. These range from dry whites that challenge the best of Burgundy (Pessac-Léognan is particularly renowned) to the Sweet, botrytised nectars of Sauternes. Although Bordeaux is most famous for its wines produced in specific districts or communes, many of its wines fall under other, broader appellations. These include AOC Bordeaux, Bordeaux Supérieur and Crémant de Bordeaux.

The Bordeaux Red appellation represents more than a third of the total production. The official Bordeaux wine region extends 130 kilometres inland from the Atlantic coast. 111,000 hectares of vineyards were registered in 2018, a figure that has remained largely constant over the previous decade. However, the number of winegrowers has consolidated; in 2018 there were around 6,000, compared to 9,000 a decade earlier.

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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 Les Grandes Mottes and wines from the region

Pomerol granted permission for ‘exceptional’ irrigation

‘Climatic conditions’ and the requests of a ‘certain number of winegrowers’ were cited as the reasons for Jean-Marie Garde, president of the Pomerol appellation, to ask regulatory body Institut National de l’Origine et de la Qualité (INAO) to temporarily reverse the long-standing ban on irrigation. The favourable news was shared via emails seen by Decanter, with an accompanying letter from the INAO dated July 20, 2022. The letter, translated from French, states that after ...

Bordeaux 2021 en primeur campaign delivered ‘predictable chaos’ and ‘pitiful revenues’

Anecdotal evidence suggests that sales decreased significantly compared to the previous year, with volume and value sales down by as much as 60% in a few cases. In some instances, sales of usually bankable wines crashed to almost zero, according to the merchants that Liv-Ex polled. ‘Yet again, many buyers and collectors have had to ask what purpose the time-consuming event serves when it delivers such pitiful revenue, and who precisely it is for when it offers little compelling value,’ said Liv- ...

Rare Lafite 1887 magnum tops £22,000 in Sotheby’s auction

A magnum of Lafite Rothschild 1887 sold for £22,500 ($28,300) at a Sotheby’s auction of ‘vinous treasures’ spanning nearly 200 years. The wine, held in storage with Octavian group in Wiltshire, had a pre-sale high estimate of £18,000. A single bottle of Château d’Yquem 1831 sold for £27,500 (pre-sale high estimate: £20,000). Another bottle of Yquem, from the 1896 vintage, sold for £15,000, tripling its pre-sale high estimate. ‘An extraordinary wine from a very great Sauternes vintage,’ said Sere ...

The word of the wine: Private cellar

A term that designates an estate or a château belonging to a winegrower or a family, as opposed to a cooperative cellar that brings together member winegrowers.