The Château Kalian of Monbazillac of South West

Château Kalian - Bergerac Blanc Sec
The winery offers 8 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 10 of the estates of South West.
It is located in Monbazillac in the region of South West

The Château Kalian is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 8 wines for sale in of Monbazillac to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Kalian wines

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

The top white wines of Château Kalian

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Château Kalian

How Château Kalian wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or sweet desserts such as recipes of cod brandade, phad thai (thai style fried noodles) or yoghurt cake.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Château Kalian.

  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Sémillon

Discovering the wine region of Monbazillac

The wine region of Monbazillac is located in the region of Guyenne of South West of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Tirecul la Gravière or the Grande Maison produce mainly wines sweet, white and red. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Monbazillac are Muscadelle, Pinot noir and Malbec, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Monbazillac often reveals types of flavors of honey, elderflower or cream and sometimes also flavors of tropical, pear or white peach.

We currently count 195 estates and châteaux in the of Monbazillac, producing 334 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Monbazillac go well with generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or sweet desserts.

The top red wines of Château Kalian

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Kalian

How Château Kalian wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of ramen burger, lamb mouse confit in wine or ham and cheese macaroni gratin.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Kalian

  • 2013With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.80/5

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot

Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). 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 to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

The top sweet wines of Château Kalian

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Château Kalian

How Château Kalian wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or sweet desserts such as recipes of spinach, smoked salmon and ricotta lasagne, seafood pie or brownies with nuts.

Organoleptic analysis of sweet wines of Château Kalian

On the nose the sweet wine of Château Kalian. often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, apples or honey and sometimes also flavors of passion fruit, earth or oak.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Château Kalian

  • 2011With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.04/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.31/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Château Kalian.

  • Muscadelle
  • Sémillon
  • Sauvignon Blanc

The word of the wine: Côte des Blancs

One of the most famous terroirs of the Champagne region, from Épernay to Vertus, mainly devoted to Chardonnay, hence its name. The villages of Chouilly, Cramant, Cuis, Mesnil-sur-Oger, Avize, etc., lying on the chalk, are in a way to Champagne what Meursault, Chablis and Puligny are to Burgundy.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Kalian

Planning a wine route in the of Monbazillac? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Kalian.

Discover the grape variety: Sémillon

Sémillon blanc is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. Note that this grape variety can also be used for the elaboration of eaux de vie. This variety of vine is characterized by large bunches of grapes, and grapes of large size. Sémillon Blanc can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Armagnac, Provence & Corsica, Loire Valley, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

News about Château Kalian and wines from the region

Bordeaux ‘Act for Change’ symposium

The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C  in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘Arresting and generous, but without vulgarity or excess’

Layers of colour in the sky before me: indigo, peach, salmon. In the rear-view mirror, the gold was catching fire. As I drove down through the lonely, Mistral-chilled vines of Babeau-Bouldoux towards nearby St-Chinian, I was thinking about what Christine Deleuze of Clos Bagatelle had just said. ‘When you came to visit 10 years ago,’ she reminded me, ‘you said we needed to wait another decade for a market breakthrough. Today you’ve said we need to wait another decade or two. So when, exactly, wil ...

Ukrainian wine, hanging in the balance

Since February 24th 2022 the world has quickly learned a great deal more about Europe’s second-largest country, Ukraine. Most notably will be our profound admiration for the Ukrainians’ continued resistance to the invading Russian Army. This is but one item on a long list that includes such things as Ukraine being one of the world’s top exporters of wheat, barley and sunflower seeds. However, many people are also now learning that Ukraine not only has a thriving winemaking sect ...

The word of the wine: Côte des Blancs

One of the most famous terroirs of the Champagne region, from Épernay to Vertus, mainly devoted to Chardonnay, hence its name. The villages of Chouilly, Cramant, Cuis, Mesnil-sur-Oger, Avize, etc., lying on the chalk, are in a way to Champagne what Meursault, Chablis and Puligny are to Burgundy.