The Winery Laroche-Clauzet of Médoc of Bordeaux

Winery Laroche-Clauzet
Only one wine is currently referenced in this domain
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 842 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Médoc in the region of Bordeaux

The Winery Laroche-Clauzet is one of the best wineries to follow in Médoc.. It offers 1 wines for sale in of Médoc to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Laroche-Clauzet wines

Looking for the best Winery Laroche-Clauzet wines in Médoc among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Laroche-Clauzet 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 Winery Laroche-Clauzet wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Laroche-Clauzet

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Laroche-Clauzet

How Winery Laroche-Clauzet wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef tournedos with boursin, couscous of meat and fish or paella valenciana (without seafood).

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Laroche-Clauzet

On the nose the red wine of Winery Laroche-Clauzet. often reveals types of flavors of oaky, blackberry or vanilla and sometimes also flavors of non oak, oak or spices. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Laroche-Clauzet. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Laroche-Clauzet

  • 2016With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2007With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Laroche-Clauzet.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Médoc

Bordeaux's Médoc is an area of coastal lagoons, sand dunes and pine forests located on the 45th parallel. It is also a global wine powerhouse, and home to four of the world's most prestigious wine villages: Pauillac, Margaux, Saint-Estèphe and Saint-Julien. The estates located in these villages produce some of the most expensive bottles in the world. The region has also provided all but one of the châteaux included in the official 1855 Bordeaux wine classification (Haut-Brion).

The Médoc vineyards cover about 16,000 hectares, including the various small appellations. Approximately 5500 hectares of vines are classified for the production of AOC/AOP Médoc wines. Wedged between the Atlantic coast and the wide Gironde estuary, the Médoc is in fact a peninsula. It stretches 80 kilometres (50 miles) to the northwest, from the city of Bordeaux to the Pointe de Grave.

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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 Winery Laroche-Clauzet and wines from the region

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 ...

Bordeaux ‘Act for Change’ symposium

The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C  in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...

Domaines Henri Martin – the spirit of family and terroir

The story of Domaines Henri Martin is that of a family business founded on a shared commitment, across generations, to produce wines with character, true to the quality of the exceptional vineyards and the history of the iconic estates they hail from. Descending from a family rooted in the Médoc for more than 300 years, Henri Martin was well aware of the potential of some of the region’s finest parcels. Motivated by this belief and by a vibrant entrepreneurial spirit, he accomplished something q ...

The word of the wine: Merrain

Oak wood split into planks used to make the barrel.