The Winery La Croix Laroque of Libournais of Bordeaux

Winery La Croix Laroque
The winery offers 7 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 1169 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Libournais in the region of Bordeaux

The Winery La Croix Laroque is one of the best wineries to follow in Libournais.. It offers 7 wines for sale in of Libournais to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery La Croix Laroque wines

Looking for the best Winery La Croix Laroque wines in Libournais among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery La Croix Laroque 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 La Croix Laroque wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery La Croix Laroque

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery La Croix Laroque

How Winery La Croix Laroque wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of sauté of lamb with curry, shoulder of lamb in a crust or casserons in the country style.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery La Croix Laroque

On the nose the red wine of Winery La Croix Laroque. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit, non oak or oak and sometimes also flavors of black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery La Croix Laroque. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery La Croix Laroque

  • 2008With an average score of 4.50/5
  • 2006With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2010With an average score of 4.04/5
  • 2009With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2005With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.80/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery La Croix Laroque.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Malbec

Discovering the wine region of Libournais

Rich in world-renowned wines, such as Saint-Emilion Grands Crus and Bordeaux/libournais/pomerol">Pomerol, the Libourne region Lies on the right bank of the Dordogne, on the edge of the Périgord. The region takes its name from the port city of Libourne, where many merchants from the Correze settled in the early 19th century. But its jewel is the small medieval city of Saint-Emilion, listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site and one of the most famous showcases of the Bordeaux wine region. The region is very homogeneous due to its hilly landscapes, its geology (predominantly limestone subsoil), the concentration of vineyards and the importance of family-run, small or medium-sized estates, which contrast with the large Medoc-type estates.

The Libournais is also Distinguished by its Grape variety dominated by Merlot, which gives Finesse, roundness and fruitiness to the red wines and allows them to age well, even if they generally Open up more quickly than those of appellations dominated by Cabernet Sauvignon. .

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Discover the grape variety: Malbec

Malbec, a high-yielding red grape variety, produces tannic and colourful wines. It is produced in different wine-growing regions and changes its name according to the grape variety. Called Auxerrois in Cahors, Malbec in Bordeaux, it is also known as Côt. 6,000 hectares of the Malbec grape are grown in France (in decline since the 1950s). Malbec is also very successful in Argentina. The country has become the world's leading producer of Malbec and offers wines with great potential.

News about Winery La Croix Laroque and wines from the region

Decanter magazine latest issue: April 2022

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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 ...

Rethinking the wine bottle for the future

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The word of the wine: Harmonious

Balance of the different organoleptic elements of a wine. This harmony is linked to the typicity of each wine. The sweetness of a sweet wine is an element of its balance, whereas a Sancerre or a Chablis will be asked to be lively and dry.