Château LaribotteLa Gravière du Château Laribotte Sauternes
Sweet wine
In the mouth this sweet wine is a powerful mainly marked by the residual sugar.
This wine generally goes well with fruity desserts and blue cheese.
Taste structure of the La Gravière du Château Laribotte Sauternes from the Château Laribotte
Light | Bold | |
Dry | Sweet | |
Soft | Acidic |
In the mouth the La Gravière du Château Laribotte Sauternes of Château Laribotte in the region of Bordeaux is a powerful mainly marked by the residual sugar.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
Food and wine pairings with La Gravière du Château Laribotte Sauternes
Pairings that work perfectly with La Gravière du Château Laribotte Sauternes
Original food and wine pairings with La Gravière du Château Laribotte Sauternes
The La Gravière du Château Laribotte Sauternes of Château Laribotte matches generally quite well with dishes of fruity desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of tarte tatin or fennel tatin with blue cheese.
Details and technical informations about Château Laribotte's La Gravière du Château Laribotte Sauternes.
Discover the grape variety: Nebbiolo
A very old grape variety grown in the Italian Piedmont. It has a great resemblance with the Freisa, which also comes from the same Italian region. Among the various massal selections made in Italy, we find lampia, michet and rosé. It can be found in Italy, Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Mexico, the United States (California), Australia, etc. In France, it is practically unknown, perhaps because it is a delicate and demanding grape variety with, among other things, a fairly long phenological cycle.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of La Gravière du Château Laribotte Sauternes from Château Laribotte are 2010
Informations about the Château Laribotte
The Château Laribotte is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 7 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: Chaptalization
The addition of sugar at the time of fermentation of the must, an ancient practice, but theorized by Jean-Antoine Chaptal at the dawn of the 19th century. The sugar is transformed into alcohol and allows the natural degree of the wine to be raised in a weak or cold year, or - more questionably - when the winegrower has a harvest that is too large to obtain good maturity.
