The Winery La Picoutine of Vin de France

Winery La Picoutine - Cuvée Especial Carignan - Grenache
The winery offers 4 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.4.
It is ranked in the top 1198 of the estates of Vin de France.
It is located in Vin de France

The Winery La Picoutine is one of the best wineries to follow in Vin de France.. It offers 4 wines for sale in of Vin de France to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery La Picoutine wines

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

The top red wines of Winery La Picoutine

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery La Picoutine

How Winery La Picoutine wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, spicy food or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of romazava (madagascar), beef fajitas or beet greens and black sesame seeds pie.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery La Picoutine

On the nose the red wine of Winery La Picoutine. often reveals types of flavors of vanilla, non oak or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, red fruit.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery La Picoutine

  • 2015With an average score of 3.30/5

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

  • Carignan
  • Grenache

Discovering the wine region of Vin de France

Vin de France is the most basic level of quality for wines from France. These are generally uncomplicated everyday drinks - most often blends, but perhaps also Varietal wines based on a well-known Grape variety such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Chardonnay or Sauvignon Blanc. Wines from France are those that do not meet the criteria stipulated by the Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) or Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) laws (see information on French wine labels). This may be because the vineyards are outside the delimited production areas or because the grape varieties or winemaking techniques used do not conform to the rules of the local appellations.

Although there are some notable exceptions to the rule, most Vin de France wines are produced from high-yielding vines in the South of France (particularly Languedoc-Roussillon), most often from widely planted traditional grape varieties such as Carignan or Merlot. These are light, Fruity wines, intended for early consumption. Many of the wines of France are "bag-in-box" or "box wine" wines, as the economies of scale of cheaper packaging are an attractive option for producers and consumers. There are, however, wines from France of exceptional interest and quality.

The top pink wines of Winery La Picoutine

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery La Picoutine

How Winery La Picoutine wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of barbecue burger or phonsounette (potatoes with melted saint nectaire cheese).

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery La Picoutine.

  • Grenache
  • Cinsault

Discover the grape variety: Carignan

Mainly cultivated in the Languedoc region, carignan originates from Spain. Because of its very resistant branches, it is often called hardwood. Its bunches are quite large. They are compact and winged with a lignified stalk. The berries are spherical in shape and take on a bluish-black colour. Carignan has a total of 25 approved clones, the best known of which are 274, 65 and 9. The carignan buds at the beginning of June and is protected from spring frosts. It does not reach maturity until the third period. Also, this grape variety needs warmth and sunshine. It appreciates dry and not very fertile soils. Carignan vines can live for more than 100 years. Those that are more than 30 years old produce a better wine. This wine is well coloured. It is generous and powerful at the same time. Pepper, cherry, blackberry, banana, raspberry, almond, prune and violet are some of the aromas that this grape variety gives off.

The top white wines of Winery La Picoutine

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery La Picoutine

How Winery La Picoutine wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery La Picoutine

  • 2017With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.00/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery La Picoutine.

  • Colombard
  • Ugni blanc

The word of the wine: Nervous

Said of a wine that leaves its mark on the palate with its strong characters and a hint of acidity, but without excess.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery La Picoutine

Planning a wine route in the of Vin de France? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery La Picoutine.

Discover the grape variety: Ugni

Ugni blanc is a grape variety originating from Italy. It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by large bunches and small to medium sized grapes. Ugni blanc can be found in many vineyards: South West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Rhone valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Armagnac, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

News about Winery La Picoutine and wines from the region

EU grants member states the right to use resistant hybrid varieties in appellation wines

Following a recent modification of EU rules, member states are now allowed to employ resistant varieties in the production of wines with protected denominations of origin (PDO). The decision, published last week in the Official Journal of the European Union, is part of a wider revision of previous regulations that established common quality schemes, organisation of the market, definitions, descriptions, presentations, and labelling of European agricultural products and foodstuffs. Before the ann ...

Cheval Blanc 2021 released en primeur: ‘an obvious buy’

Cheval Blanc 2021 was released en primeur this morning (19 May) at €390 per bottle ex-Bordeaux, up by around 3% on the 202o-vintage opening price last year. Liv-ex said the new release was still cheaper on the market than the well-regarded vintage trio of 2018, 2019 and 2020. UK merchants offered the 2021 wine at £4,740 (12x75cl in bond), it said. It marks another relatively early release for Cheval Blanc, with this year’s Bordeaux en primeur campaign just getting started. Cheval Blanc 202 ...

Walls: top northern Rhône reds under £30

In preparation for this column I tasted 46 reds in total, and – taking both quality and value into account – I can recommend 33 of them. Overall, the reds were less consistent than the whites, and although the lows were lower, the highs were higher. This tasting confirmed that it’s still possible to buy genuinely excellent northern Rhône reds for under £30 in the UK. That being said, it’s virtually impossible to find any Cornas, Côte-Rôtie or Hermitage for under £30 a bottle these days, but ther ...

The word of the wine: Nervous

Said of a wine that leaves its mark on the palate with its strong characters and a hint of acidity, but without excess.