The Château La Bonnelle of Saint-Émilion Grand Cru of Bordeaux

Château La Bonnelle - Millésime Réservé Saint-Émilion Grand Cru
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.
It is ranked in the top 212 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Saint-Émilion Grand Cru in the region of Bordeaux

The Château La Bonnelle is one of the best wineries to follow in Saint-Émilion Grand Cru.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Saint-Émilion Grand Cru to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château La Bonnelle wines

Looking for the best Château La Bonnelle wines in Saint-Émilion Grand Cru among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château La Bonnelle 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 La Bonnelle wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château La Bonnelle

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château La Bonnelle

How Château La Bonnelle wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of cicadas at the chib, lamb with coconut milk or duck parmentier with ceps.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château La Bonnelle

On the nose the red wine of Château La Bonnelle. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, cheese or black fruit and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, spices or oak. In the mouth the red wine of Château La Bonnelle. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château La Bonnelle

  • 2008With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2005With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2010With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2001With an average score of 4.00/5

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

  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Petit Verdot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Malbec

Discovering the wine region of Saint-Émilion Grand Cru

The wine region of Saint-Émilion Grand Cru is located in the region of Saint-Émilion of Bordeaux of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Château Cheval Blanc or the Château Ausone produce mainly wines red. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Saint-Émilion Grand Cru are Merlot, Cabernet franc and Cabernet-Sauvignon, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Saint-Émilion Grand Cru often reveals types of flavors of cherry, dill or tropical fruit and sometimes also flavors of aniseed, hay or honey.

In the mouth of Saint-Émilion Grand Cru is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 849 estates and châteaux in the of Saint-Émilion Grand Cru, producing 1323 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Saint-Émilion Grand Cru go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château La Bonnelle

Planning a wine route in the of Saint-Émilion Grand Cru? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château La Bonnelle.

Discover the grape variety: Petit Verdot

Petit Verdot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (southwest). 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. Petit Verdot noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Armagnac.

News about Château La Bonnelle and wines from the region

Best in Show: The top 50 wines of DWWA 2022

The 0.27% of entries awarded Best in Show at this year’s Decanter World Wine Awards reflect the inspiring world of wine and quest for quality among winemakers globally, with 50 wines expressing the best of their categories. An all-time record for wines tasted at the world’s largest wine competition, it’s quite possible that Decanter World Wine Awards 2022 marks the largest-ever wine competition to be held in history. And of the record-breaking 18,244 wines tasted, just 50 were ...

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

Stephen Brook: ‘It is astonishing how rapidly changes can take place in the Bordeaux region’

My book The Complete Bordeaux, which has been revised every five years, is soon to be published in its fourth edition. This may seem like excessive haste, given the scope of the book, but it is astonishing how rapidly changes can take place in the region. Burgundy, in contrast, is relatively stable, since most properties are family-owned and tend to stay that way. But not so in Bordeaux, where there are ample opportunities for newcomers to acquire established properties, as they have been doing ...

The word of the wine: Pigeage

Operation consisting of a vertical treading to push the cap of marc into the wine, which promotes extraction. Pigeage can be carried out mechanically with jacks that plunge into the vat. Traditionally, it is the men who go down into the vats and push the cap by trampling it.