Winery Jean-Maurice RaffaultChinon Clos de L'Hospice
Red wine
This wine generally goes well with pork, poultry or beef.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Chinon Clos de L'Hospice of Winery Jean-Maurice Raffault in the region of Loire Valley often reveals types of flavors of cherry, oaky or blackberry and sometimes also flavors of minerality, red fruit or tobacco.
Food and wine pairings with Chinon Clos de L'Hospice
Pairings that work perfectly with Chinon Clos de L'Hospice
Original food and wine pairings with Chinon Clos de L'Hospice
The Chinon Clos de L'Hospice of Winery Jean-Maurice Raffault matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of millet with gruyere cheese, leeks with ham and béchamel sauce or duck breast with spices, roasted figs with honey and port.
Details and technical informations about Winery Jean-Maurice Raffault's Chinon Clos de L'Hospice.
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 Chinon Clos de L'Hospice from Winery Jean-Maurice Raffault are 2011, 2016, 2014, 2015 and 2013.
Informations about the Winery Jean-Maurice Raffault
The Winery Jean-Maurice Raffault is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 19 wines for sale in the of Chinon to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Chinon
The wine region of Chinon is located in the region of Touraine of Loire Valley of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Marc Brédif or the Château de Saint Louans produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Chinon are Cabernet franc, Chenin blanc and Cabernet-Sauvignon, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Chinon often reveals types of flavors of cherry, eucalyptus or orange and sometimes also flavors of cola, fig or game.
The wine region of Loire Valley
The Loire Valley is a key wine region in western France. It follows the course of the Loire River on its Long journey through the heart of France, from the inland hills of the Auvergne to the plains of the French Atlantic coast near Nantes (Muscadet country). Important in terms of quantity and quality, the region produces large quantities (about 4 million h/l each year) of everyday wines, as well as some of France's greatest wines. Diversity is another of the region's major assets; the styles of wine produced here range from the light, tangy Muscadet to the Sweet, honeyed Bonnezeaux, the Sparkling whites of Vouvray and the juicy, Tannic reds of Chinon and Saumur.
The word of the wine: White Grenache
White grape variety cultivated mainly in Spain and a little in the south of France (southern Rhône valley, Languedoc-Roussillon). It is the white variety of Grenache noir. It is used in the blending of several white wines (dry wines or natural sweet wines) to which it gives richness, fatness and floral notes.
