The Château Laroche Bel Air of Côte de Beaune of Burgundy

Château Laroche Bel Air
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is ranked in the top 6130 of the estates of Burgundy.
It is located in Côte de Beaune in the region of Burgundy

The Château Laroche Bel Air is one of the best wineries to follow in Côte de Beaune.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Côte de Beaune to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Laroche Bel Air wines

Looking for the best Château Laroche Bel Air wines in Côte de Beaune among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Laroche Bel Air 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 Laroche Bel Air wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château Laroche Bel Air

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Laroche Bel Air

How Château Laroche Bel Air wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of quick and easy monkfish tail, curried veal roulades or duck confit (canned).

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Laroche Bel Air

In the mouth the red wine of Château Laroche Bel Air. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Laroche Bel Air

  • 2009With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2005With an average score of 3.30/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Laroche Bel Air.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Côte de Beaune

The Côte de Burgundy/cote-de-beaune/beaune">Beaune is a key wine region in Burgundy, eastern France. It owes its name to its main town, Beaune - the epicentre of local wine production and trade. Renowned for producing some of the world's most expensive white wines (most of which bear the name Montrachet in one form or another), the region also produces a handful of Burgundy's finest red wines, including those from the premier crus Pommard and grand cru Corton. As with most Burgundy wines, the white wines are made from Hardonnay">Chardonnay, the reds from Pinot Noir.

The Côte de Beaune is a narrow strip of land less than 5 kilometers wide, extending 25 kilometers to the northeast. The main Vineyard of the Côte de Beaune is almost exactly the same Size and shape as its northern counterpart, the Côte de Nuits. Together, these two regions form the Côte d'Or, a region named after the Côte d'Or and characterized by the Côte d'Or limestone escarpment that forms its backbone. The importance of this escarpment to Côte de Beaune viticulture is hard to underestimate; not only does it protect the vineyards from the prevailing westerly winds, but it also provides gently sloping, free-draining vineyard sites with near-perfect South and southeast aspects.

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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 Laroche Bel Air and wines from the region

Louis-Fabrice Latour: Obituary

Latour was the 11th generation of his family to lead Maison Louis Latour (and the seventh named Louis Latour). The house of Latour was formally founded in 1797, although the roots go back to the first vineyards purchased in 1731 by Denis Latour. The Latour family originally worked as coopers, and Denis’ son Jean moved to Aloxe-Corton to set up an independent cooperage and later to found Maison Louis Latour, naming the business after his son. The house of Latour remains closely associated with th ...

Parts of Pouilly-Loché and Pouilly-Vinzelles set to obtain premier cru status

French national appellation authority (INAO) representative Alexis Sannier told decanter.com that a committee had ‘validated’ in September their ‘admissibility as premier cru climats and commissioned a group of experts to determine their delimitation’. Official recognition for 2024 ‘seems realistic’, he said. The request for the four climats – Les Mûres in Pouilly-Loché and Les Quarts, Les Longeays, and Les Pétaux in Pouilly-Vinzelles, which account for about one-third of 84 hectares from the tw ...

Master Sommelier Larry Stone explains why he sold Lingua Franca to Constellation Brands

Stone will remain on board as a brand ambassador and adviser to the business he created back in 2012. The winemaking team, spearheaded by Thomas Savre and Burgundian consultant Dominique Lafon, is still in place too. ‘We’re all still there and we’re going to keep making great wine, but we will have better resources,’ Stone told Decanter.com. Stone, a Master Sommelier, purchased the 61 hectares Janzen Farm in Oregon’s Willamette Valley on December 31, 2012. He had been working at Evening Land’s a ...

The word of the wine: Gout (wine of)

In red wine making, the wine comes directly from the vat after devatting (see press).