Chateau LaFayette ReneauDry Riesling
White wine
This wine is composed of 100% of the grape variety Riesling.
This wine generally goes well with pork, vegetarian or poultry.
The Dry Riesling of the Chateau LaFayette Reneau is in the top 70 of wines of Finger Lakes.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Dry Riesling of Chateau LaFayette Reneau in the region of New York often reveals types of flavors of earth, microbio or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit, tropical fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Dry Riesling
Pairings that work perfectly with Dry Riesling
Original food and wine pairings with Dry Riesling
The Dry Riesling of Chateau LaFayette Reneau matches generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food such as recipes of pork chops with mustard, salmon with sorrel or korma chicken (india).
Details and technical informations about Chateau LaFayette Reneau's Dry Riesling.
Discover the grape variety: Riesling
Crystalline, taut whites with vibrant acidity and aromas of citrus, green apple, white flowers, vineyard peach and mineral/petrol notes with age. Made as dry (Trocken, Alsace), off-dry (Kabinett, Spätlese) and sweet (Auslese, Beerenauslese, Trockenbeerenauslese, late harvest). Star of the Moselle, Rheingau, Alsace AOC and Wachau. Also exported to Clare Valley and Finger Lakes.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Dry Riesling from Chateau LaFayette Reneau are 2015, 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2012.
Informations about the Chateau LaFayette Reneau
The Chateau LaFayette Reneau is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 35 wines for sale in the of Finger Lakes to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Finger Lakes
Quality hub of the American northeast, signature Riesling: dry, lively, mineral whites with notes of green apple, lemon, white peach and wet stone, sharp acidity comparable to the best Germans. Also off-dry and sweet botrytised versions. Precise Chardonnay, fine, fresh Pinot Noir (red fruits), peppery Cabernet Franc. Continental climate tempered by 11 glacial lakes (Cayuga, Seneca).
The wine region of New York
America's 3rd wine state by volume, striking diversity. Finger Lakes the signature: cool-climate Riesling, dry to off-dry, mineral and lively with notes of lime, apple, evolving petrol and white flowers — a US benchmark. Warmer Long Island for peppery Cabernet Franc and supple Merlot. Hudson Valley (Seyval, Vidal).
The word of the wine: Grand Cru
In Burgundy, the fourth and final level of classification (above the regional, communal and premier cru appellations), designating the wines produced on delimited plots of land (the climats) whose name alone constitutes the appellation. The climats classified as Grand Cru are 32 in the Côte d'Or plus one in Chablis which is divided into 7 distinct climats. Representing barely 1.5% of the production, the Grand Crus are the aristocracy of Burgundy wines.
