The Château Lamargue of Rhône méridional of Rhone Valley

Château Lamargue - Costières de Nîmes Rouge
The winery offers 13 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 1488 of the estates of Rhone Valley.
It is located in Rhône méridional in the region of Rhone Valley

The Château Lamargue is one of the best wineries to follow in Rhône méridional.. It offers 13 wines for sale in of Rhône méridional to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Lamargue wines

Looking for the best Château Lamargue wines in Rhône méridional among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Lamargue 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 Lamargue wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château Lamargue

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Lamargue

How Château Lamargue wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of venison stew with red wine, seven o'clock leg of lamb or duck stew with cahors wine.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Lamargue

On the nose the red wine of Château Lamargue. often reveals types of flavors of blackberry, red fruit or non oak and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or red fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Château Lamargue. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Lamargue

  • 2001With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.53/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.52/5
  • 2008With an average score of 3.35/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Lamargue.

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Grenache
  • Mourvedre

Discovering the wine region of Rhône méridional

Côtes du Rhône is a regional appellation in the Rhône Valley in eastern France. It applies to red, rosé and white wines, and includes more than 170 villages. The area follows the course of the Rhône southward for 125 miles (200 km) from Saint-Cyr-sur-le-Rhône to Avignon. A small portion of the wines in the appellation are white wines.

However, the classic Côtes du Rhône wine is a blend of Fruity, medium-weight reds made from Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre. The Côtes du Rhône appellation was introduced in November 1937. Its purpose was to give a general title to good quality Rhone wines from the lesser known and less prestigious wine producing areas of the valley. Côtes du Rhône The landscape of the Côtes du Rhône.

The top white wines of Château Lamargue

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Château Lamargue

How Château Lamargue wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of whiskey paupiettes, quebec style barbecued salmon or endive and beetroot salad with lemon cream.

The best vintages in the white wines of Château Lamargue

  • 2010With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.20/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Château Lamargue.

  • Viognier
  • Roussanne

Discover the grape variety: Roussanne

Roussane is a white grape variety, planted on an area of more than 700 ha. Originally from Montélimar, it is also found in Savoie, Languedoc and Roussillon, and grows very well in calcareous, poor, stony soil. It prefers to be pruned short. Roussane is also called fromenteau, barbin or bergeron. The young leaves are bubbled with fine down. When adult, they become thicker. It flowers in June and matures in mid-September. The grapes are cylindrical in shape, the berries are small and turn red when ripe, and the wine produced from pure Roussane is of extraordinary quality. It has a delicate aroma reminiscent of coffee, honeysuckle, iris and peony. The taste of this wine improves with age. It is part of the blend of the appellations Vin-de-Savoie, Côtes-du-Vallée du Rhône or Châteauneuf-du-Pape.

The top pink wines of Château Lamargue

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Château Lamargue

How Château Lamargue wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of creole chipolatas, salmon cannelloni or chinese fondue.

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Château Lamargue.

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Grenache

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Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Lamargue

Planning a wine route in the of Rhône méridional? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Lamargue.

Discover the grape variety: Grenache

Grenache noir is a grape variety that originated in Spain. 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 medium to large bunches, and grapes of medium size. Grenache noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Languedoc & Roussillon, Rhone Valley, Loire Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

News about Château Lamargue and wines from the region

Buying wine en primeur: How to approach it

Colin Hay, a professor of political economy with a special interest in the Place de Bordeaux, considers the different ways of approaching en primeur purchasing, ahead of this year’s 2021 campaign. Buying en primeur wines is a rather strange and, arguably, arcane system of buying and selling in which the consumer purchases the wine typically in the early summer following the vintage even though it will not be bottled and delivered for a further 12-18 months. It is, in effect, a futures mark ...

Walls and Barnes reach André Simon Food & Drink Book Awards shortlist

The final 11-strong shortlist includes four drink books – Wines of the Rhône by Matt Walls; The South America Wine Guide by Amanda Barnes; Inside Burgundy by Jasper Morris MW and Foot Trodden by Simon J Woolf & Ryan Opaz.    Commenting on the shortlist, Nicholas Lander, chair of the André Simon Memorial Fund, said: ‘A number of this year’s food and drink nominees, including Wines of the Rhône, address the urgent environmental and global issues of today in ways that are original, inspiring an ...

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

The word of the wine: SR

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