Château Lahonade-PeyragueySauternas
Sweet wine
In the mouth this sweet wine is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.
This wine generally goes well with fruity desserts and blue cheese.
Taste structure of the Sauternas from the Château Lahonade-Peyraguey
Light | Bold | |
Dry | Sweet | |
Soft | Acidic |
In the mouth the Sauternas of Château Lahonade-Peyraguey in the region of Bordeaux is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.
Food and wine pairings with Sauternas
Pairings that work perfectly with Sauternas
Original food and wine pairings with Sauternas
The Sauternas of Château Lahonade-Peyraguey matches generally quite well with dishes of fruity desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of yoghurt cake or pumpkin and blueberry no-dough pie in the microwave.
Details and technical informations about Château Lahonade-Peyraguey's Sauternas.
Discover the grape variety: Garganega
Very old vine cultivated in Italy, in Sicily it would carry the name of grecanico dorato and in Spain would be the malvasia mauresa... . It can be found in the United States, but in France it is almost unknown. It should be noted that its bunches resemble somewhat those of the ugni blanc or trebbiano toscano and it would be related to the verdicchio blanco.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Sauternas from Château Lahonade-Peyraguey are 2003, 2001
Informations about the Château Lahonade-Peyraguey
The Château Lahonade-Peyraguey is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 1 wines for sale in the of Sauternes to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Sauternes
Sauternes, 65 km South of Bordeaux, is a Village renowned for its high quality Sweet wines. Although some wineries produce Dry wines, they sell them under other appellations than Sauternes, which is specific to sweet wines. The village is surrounded on all sides by vineyards, the best of which produce some of the most prestigious, long-lasting and expensive dessert wines in the world. A half bottle of premium, aged Sauternes from a good Vintage can sell for over $1,000.
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 word of the wine: Liquid
Sweet wine containing more than 50 grams of residual sugar per liter. Sweet wines are made from grapes often affected by botrytis cinerea and concentrated either by passerillage (drying of the grapes on the vine stock), or after the harvest (straw wines), or by the cold (ice wines).
