Winery Johanès BoubéeChâteau le Pape Sauternes
Sweet wine
In the mouth this sweet wine is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.
This wine generally goes well with fruity desserts and blue cheese.
Taste structure of the Château le Pape Sauternes from the Winery Johanès Boubée
Light | Bold | |
Dry | Sweet | |
Soft | Acidic |
In the mouth the Château le Pape Sauternes of Winery Johanès Boubée in the region of Bordeaux is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.
Food and wine pairings with Château le Pape Sauternes
Pairings that work perfectly with Château le Pape Sauternes
Original food and wine pairings with Château le Pape Sauternes
The Château le Pape Sauternes of Winery Johanès Boubée matches generally quite well with dishes of fruity desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of rice with milk or blue cheese and walnut cake.
Details and technical informations about Winery Johanès Boubée's Château le Pape Sauternes.
Discover the grape variety: Limnio
Certainly the oldest of the Greek grape varieties, it is given as having its first origins on the island of Lemnos or Limnos in the northern Aegean Sea, today much more cultivated in the northern part of Greece. It should not be confused with limniona, also of Greek origin, and to aggravate the confusion has as synonym limnio. Limnio can also be found in Romania, Italy, Germany, ... in France almost unknown.
Informations about the Winery Johanès Boubée
The Winery Johanès Boubée is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 163 wines for sale in the of Sauternes to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Sauternes
Sauternes, 65 km South of Bordeaux, is a Village renowned for its high quality Sweet wines. Although some wineries produce Dry wines, they sell them under other appellations than Sauternes, which is specific to sweet wines. The village is surrounded on all sides by vineyards, the best of which produce some of the most prestigious, long-lasting and expensive dessert wines in the world. A half bottle of premium, aged Sauternes from a good Vintage can sell for over $1,000.
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 word of the wine: Liquid
Sweet wine containing more than 50 grams of residual sugar per liter. Sweet wines are made from grapes often affected by botrytis cinerea and concentrated either by passerillage (drying of the grapes on the vine stock), or after the harvest (straw wines), or by the cold (ice wines).
