The Château Le Vieux Serestin of Médoc of Bordeaux

Château Le Vieux Serestin - Cuvée Tradition Médoc
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is ranked in the top 1079 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Médoc in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Le Vieux Serestin is one of the best wineries to follow in Médoc.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Médoc to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Le Vieux Serestin wines

Looking for the best Château Le Vieux Serestin wines in Médoc among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Le Vieux Serestin 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 Le Vieux Serestin wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château Le Vieux Serestin

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Le Vieux Serestin

How Château Le Vieux Serestin wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of autumn beef bourguignon, original mafé with okra or duck breast with orange sauce.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Le Vieux Serestin

On the nose the red wine of Château Le Vieux Serestin. often reveals types of flavors of oaky, blackberry or tobacco and sometimes also flavors of leather, cocoa or cheese. In the mouth the red wine of Château Le Vieux Serestin. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Le Vieux Serestin

  • 2007With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2006With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Le Vieux Serestin.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot
  • Petit Verdot

Discovering the wine region of Médoc

Bordeaux's Médoc is an area of coastal lagoons, sand dunes and pine forests located on the 45th parallel. It is also a global wine powerhouse, and home to four of the world's most prestigious wine villages: Pauillac, Margaux, Saint-Estèphe and Saint-Julien. The estates located in these villages produce some of the most expensive bottles in the world. The region has also provided all but one of the châteaux included in the official 1855 Bordeaux wine classification (Haut-Brion).

The Médoc vineyards cover about 16,000 hectares, including the various small appellations. Approximately 5500 hectares of vines are classified for the production of AOC/AOP Médoc wines. Wedged between the Atlantic coast and the wide Gironde estuary, the Médoc is in fact a peninsula. It stretches 80 kilometres (50 miles) to the northwest, from the city of Bordeaux to the Pointe de Grave.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Le Vieux Serestin

Planning a wine route in the of Médoc? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Le Vieux Serestin.

Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). 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 to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

News about Château Le Vieux Serestin and wines from the region

Decanter magazine latest issue: July 2022

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Penfolds doubles production capacity in France following Château Lanessan acquisition

The deal includes 390ha of land in the Haut-Médoc appellation, of which 80ha is currently planted with Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Petit Verdot, along with the winery. It will allow TWE’s flagship brand, Penfolds, to increase its focus on creating blends featuring grapes from Bordeaux and Barossa. Earlier this year, chief winemaker Peter Gago unveiled Penfolds II, a Cabernet-Shiraz-Merlot blend created in partnership with Dourthe Bordeaux. The wine featured 71% grapes grown in Bordeaux and 29 ...

Bordeaux ‘Act for Change’ symposium

The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C  in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...

The word of the wine: Varietal

Said of wine aromas that are reminiscent of fresh grapes. The most demonstrative example is certainly that of wines made from the Muscat grape variety.