The Winery La Forêt Hilaire of Bordeaux

Winery La Forêt Hilaire - Bordeaux
The winery offers 4 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.1.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Bordeaux.
It is located in Bordeaux

The Winery La Forêt Hilaire is one of the best wineries to follow in Bordeaux.. It offers 4 wines for sale in of Bordeaux to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery La Forêt Hilaire wines

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

The top red wines of Winery La Forêt Hilaire

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery La Forêt Hilaire

How Winery La Forêt Hilaire wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef with onions chinese style, roast veal with black olives or duck breast in a crust.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery La Forêt Hilaire

On the nose the red wine of Winery La Forêt Hilaire. often reveals types of flavors of plum, black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery La Forêt Hilaire. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery La Forêt Hilaire

  • 2013With an average score of 2.90/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery La Forêt Hilaire.

  • 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.

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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 La Forêt Hilaire and wines from the region

Decanter at Home: Château Angélus masterclass – a philosophy of excellence

Last chance: You can still buy tickets to watch this Château Angélus virtual masterclass and taste the wines, via the Decanter at Home series – book here Guiding us through this tasting was estate co-owner and CEO Stéphanie de Boüard-Rivoal, the eighth generation of the de Boüard family at Angélus. After a first career in London in the financial industry, de Boüard came back to St-Emilion, and the estate where she grew up, in 2012, and told us, ‘it is now my turn to write a new chapter in ...

Bordeaux 2022 harvest: Vintage looks ‘very promising’

A ‘very promising’ vintage is expected, said the regional wine council (CIVB), as the Bordeaux 2022 harvest gets underway for reds. It’s still too early to judge fully and yields will be lower in some cases following heat, drought and also hailstorms during the growing season, yet the CIVB cited ‘attractive but small berries’ and healthy vineyard conditions during the crucial flowering period and for harvest. Europe has seen early starts to wine harvests in 2022 and the C ...

St-Emilion council defends classification after Angélus withdrawal

Château Angélus’ announcement that it is withdrawing from the process to create the 2022 St-Emilion Classification has sent shockwaves through the region and raised questions about the ranking’s future form.  With Châteaux Ausone and Cheval Blanc having announced their withdrawal last year, three of the top-ranking ‘Premier Grand Cru Classé A’ estates from the last edition of the St-Emilion Classification in 2012 will not be candidates for the revised ranking, due this ye ...

The word of the wine: Terroir

Strictly speaking, the notion of terroir corresponds to the geological characteristics of a vineyard. However, when we talk about terroir, we take into account the soil, the climate (even the microclimate), the flora, the fauna, and the human factor that characterizes the practices that make up the art of the craft.