Winery Joel Taluau - La Grotte Rouge Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil

Winery Joel TaluauLa Grotte Rouge Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil

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(Average of the reviews for all vintages combined and from several consumer review sources)
Tasters generally liked this wine.
The La Grotte Rouge Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil of Winery Joel Taluau is a red wine from the region of Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil of Loire Valley.
This wine generally goes well with pork, poultry or beef.

Details and technical informations about Winery Joel Taluau's La Grotte Rouge Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil.

Winemaker
Thierry Foltzenlogel
Grape varieties
Region/Great wine region
Great wine region
Country
Style of wine
Allergens
Contains sulfites

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

La Grotte Rouge Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil - 2018
In the top 100 of of Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil wines
Average rating: 3.81110.50
La Grotte Rouge Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil - 2017
In the top 100 of of Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil wines
Average rating: 4.211110

The best vintages of La Grotte Rouge Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil from Winery Joel Taluau are 2017, 2018

Informations about the Winery Joel Taluau

The winery offers 19 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is in the top 10 of the best estates in the region
It is located in Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil in the region of Loire Valley

The Winery Joel Taluau is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 19 wines for sale in the of Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Loire Valley
In the top 60000 of of France wines
In the top 900 of of Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil wines
In the top 150000 of red wines
In the top 250000 wines of the world

The wine region of Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil

The wine region of Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil is located in the region of Touraine of Loire Valley of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Yannick Amirault or the Domaine Sebastien David produce mainly wines red, pink and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil are Cabernet franc, Pinot noir and Cabernet-Sauvignon, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil often reveals types of flavors of cherry, stone or grass and sometimes also flavors of game, cheese or graphite.


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.

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The word of the wine: Destemming

Action consisting in separating the grapes from the stalk before vinification. The stalk, the woody part of the bunch, may give the wine an unpleasant vegetal character.

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