The Winery l'Esprit Couvent of Bordeaux

Winery l'Esprit Couvent - 100 Pur Cent
The winery offers 11 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Bordeaux.
It is located in Bordeaux
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The Winery l'Esprit Couvent is one of the best wineries to follow in Bordeaux.. It offers 11 wines for sale in of Bordeaux to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery l'Esprit Couvent wines

Looking for the best Winery l'Esprit Couvent wines in Bordeaux among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery l'Esprit Couvent 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 Winery l'Esprit Couvent wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery l'Esprit Couvent

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery l'Esprit Couvent

How Winery l'Esprit Couvent wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of homemade italian lasagna, pljeskavica (balkan hamburger) or aiguillettes of duck with paprika and pan-fried ceps.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery l'Esprit Couvent

In the mouth the red wine of Winery l'Esprit Couvent. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery l'Esprit Couvent

  • 2012With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.61/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.45/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery l'Esprit Couvent.

  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc

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.

The top white wines of Winery l'Esprit Couvent

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery l'Esprit Couvent

How Winery l'Esprit Couvent wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of rougail sausage, quiche without eggs or gratin of coquillettes with ham.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery l'Esprit Couvent

  • 2013With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.10/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery l'Esprit Couvent.

  • Sémillon
  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Sauvignon Gris

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon

Sauvignon Gris is a grape variety that originated in France (South-West). 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. Sauvignon Gris can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Burgundy, Jura, Beaujolais, Armagnac, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey.

The top sparkling wines of Winery l'Esprit Couvent

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery l'Esprit Couvent

How Winery l'Esprit Couvent wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, poultry or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of fondue with lao sukiyaki sauce (laos), korean bibimbap or samossa (india).

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery l'Esprit Couvent.

  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot

The word of the wine: Fermentation

The process by which grape juice becomes wine, thanks to the action of yeasts that transform sugar into alcohol.

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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.

News about Winery l'Esprit Couvent and wines from the region

Cape Winemakers Guild 2022 auction: all the lots to bid on

The 38th annual Cape Winemakers Guild Auction is back on home soil in South Africa this year. Auction house Strauss & Co will host the sale, sponsored by Nedbank, live and online from 5pm to 8pm on Friday 30 September and 9am to 3pm on Saturday 1 October. Bidders can attend the auction in person at the Lord Charles Hotel in Somerset West, bid by telephone, or online. They can also leave a commission bid in advance of the sale. Bonhams auction house held the auction in London in 2020 and 2021 ...

Behind LVMH’s Himalayan wine project: the villages of Ao Yun

It’s no easy task to establish a super-premium wine in an entirely new region, particularly when inviting potential retail partners or distributors to the vineyard involves journeying to a distant corner of the Himalayas in the outer reaches of the Yunnan province, southwestern China. For my journey, after four flights from Bordeaux to Shanghai, Chengdu then Shangri-La, it was a four-hour drive up through stunning mountain passes to the foothills (here, that means 2,200m above sea level) of the ...

Plans to rebuild after wildfire damages rare vines in Crete

Growers in the village of Melambes in Crete saw devastating wildfires cause ‘complete damage to 300 acres (121.4 hectares) of old pre-phylloxera vines’ in July, according to an online crowdfunding page created to support viticulture in the area and help those affected. Although fire burned 90% of the vineyard, it’s hoped some damaged vines can be rescued, said winemaker Iliana Malihin, of her namesake winery and who has spearheaded a community project to revive the site in recent years. Ye ...

The word of the wine: Fermentation

The process by which grape juice becomes wine, thanks to the action of yeasts that transform sugar into alcohol.