The Winery Le Challier of Morgon of Beaujolais

Winery Le Challier
Only one wine is currently referenced in this domain
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Its wines get an average rating of 2.9.
It is ranked in the top 413 of the estates of Beaujolais.
It is located in Morgon in the region of Beaujolais

The Winery Le Challier is one of the best wineries to follow in Morgon.. It offers 1 wines for sale in of Morgon to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Le Challier wines

Looking for the best Winery Le Challier wines in Morgon among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Le Challier 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 Le Challier wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Le Challier

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Le Challier

How Winery Le Challier wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of roast beef in a foie gras and chanterelle crust, roast veal grand-mère madou or pork roll with tomato sauce.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Le Challier

  • 2016With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2013With an average score of 2.90/5
  • 2012With an average score of 2.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Le Challier.

  • Gamay

Discovering the wine region of Morgon

Morgon is one of the ten Beaujolais crus located on the slopes of the Beaujolais hills, on the west bank of the Saône. The appellation applies only to red wines made from the Gamay Grape. Some white grapes are allowed in the Final blend: Chardonnay, Aligoté and Melon de Bourgogne. Although there are no officially defined quantities for these varieties, Morgon's blend is controlled by limiting the proportion of these varieties that are allowed in the Vineyard to a maximum of 15%.

The wines produced here tend to be denser than those produced in most other regions of Beaujolais. They often have cherry and black fruit characters and a Fleshy, juicy Texture that is not common in Beaujolais wines. Morgon wines age so distinctly and consistently that the name of the region is often used as a verb to describe this: "il morgonne" ("it morgons"). As with most other Beaujolais crus, the wines are generally made using the traditional method of semi-carbonic Maceration known as "macération traditionelle".

Discover the grape variety: Chenin

Chenin, also known as pinot de la Loire Valley (pineau), is the flagship grape variety of the Loire Valley. It would have found its first origins in Anjou where it would have been cultivated by the monks of the Abbey of Saint-Maur located between Angers and Saumur since the 6th century. chenin is a great white grape variety which likes particularly the chalky soils called here stones of tufa which were used for the construction of the castles of the Loire Valley. Its bunches are medium-sized, fairly compact and its berries are more or less small. It is an early variety, which resists well to diseases. Chenin has the particularity of being able to participate as well in the elaboration of dry white wines as of sweet white wines or sparkling wines. Perfectly structured by the acidity, elegant, with a complex nose and aromas of yellow fruits, dry fruits, citrus fruits, white flowers, honey... the wine resulting from the chenin is rather lively and nervous, which allows him a good potential of guard. Chenin covers about 10,000 hectares in France, and is very productive in South Africa where it covers more than 26,000 hectares.