Domaine La Tour VieillePuig Ambeille Collioure
Red wine
This wine is a blend of 3 varietals which are the Carignan, the Mourvèdre and the Grenache noir.
This wine generally goes well with beef, veal or pasta.
The Puig Ambeille Collioure of the Domaine La Tour Vieille is in the top 10 of wines of Collioure.
Food and wine pairings with Puig Ambeille Collioure
Pairings that work perfectly with Puig Ambeille Collioure
Original food and wine pairings with Puig Ambeille Collioure
The Puig Ambeille Collioure of Domaine La Tour Vieille matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or pasta such as recipes of pork tongue with bacon and onions, veal tagine with preserved lemons and saffron or chicken and mushroom risotto.
Details and technical informations about Domaine La Tour Vieille's Puig Ambeille Collioure.
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.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Puig Ambeille Collioure from Domaine La Tour Vieille are 2015, 2020, 2014, 0 and 2018.
Informations about the Domaine La Tour Vieille
The Domaine La Tour Vieille is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 15 wines for sale in the of Collioure to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Collioure
Collioure is a very small appellation in the Roussillon region (also known as French Catalonia) in southeastern France, near the border with Spain on the Mediterranean coast, about 30 kilometers southwest of Perpignan. It produces PowerfulDry red and white wines from France's southernmost Vineyard. The appellation comprises four communes, including the one from which it takes its name, plus Cerbère, Port-Vendres and Banyuls. Collioure wines are the dry table wines of the region, while those bearing the name Banyuls are the Sweet wines produced in exactly the same vineyards.
The wine region of Languedoc-Roussillon
Languedoc (formerly Coteaux du Languedoc) is a key appellation used in the Languedoc-Roussillon wine region of southern France. It covers Dry table wines of all three colors (red, white and rosé) from the entire region, but leaves Sweet and Sparkling wines to other more specialized appellations. About 75% of all Languedoc wines are red, with the remaining 25% split roughly down the middle between whites and rosés. The appellation covers most of the Languedoc region and almost a third of all the vineyards in France.
The word of the wine: Table wine
Everything that is not VQPRD (European designation for all appellation wines: quality wine produced in a specific region). In principle, the bottom of the ladder. But, as in Italy a decade ago (Vino da Tavola), this category is also a refuge for wines that are out of the ordinary, whose producers refuse to accept certain grape variety or vinification dictates.
