The Château Le Gardera of Bordeaux Supérieur of Bordeaux

Château Le Gardera
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 105 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Bordeaux Supérieur in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Le Gardera is one of the best wineries to follow in Bordeaux Supérieur.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Bordeaux Supérieur to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Le Gardera wines

Looking for the best Château Le Gardera wines in Bordeaux Supérieur among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Le Gardera 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 Le Gardera wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top pink wines of Château Le Gardera

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Château Le Gardera

How Château Le Gardera wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of beef tenderloin wellington, royal couscous (lamb, chicken, merguez) or stuffed pumpkin.

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Bordeaux Supérieur

Bordeaux Supérieur is an appellation level applied to wines produced in the Generic area of the Bordeaux PDO. They are produced from the classic Bordeaux Grape varieties. The reds are, as the name suggests, intended to be a slightly "superior" form of the standard Bordeaux AOC wines. They are therefore heavily based on Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, with smaller amounts of Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot and Malbec.

Some wines may feature the "lost child" of Bordeaux, Carménère. Small quantities of white wine are produced. However, as the wines must be Sweet, this does not represent a level of quality as is the case for the red designation. These wines are generally made from Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon.

Some blends may include Muscadelle, Ugni Blanc and Merlot Blanc. Similarly, the Graves Supérieures appellation is specific to sweet white wines. Only two French wine regions have adopted the concept of having a "superior" level for their appellations. The other is Beaujolais.

The top red wines of Château Le Gardera

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Le Gardera

How Château Le Gardera wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of roast beef with caramelized onion, sauté of veal with olives (corsica) or watercress salad with vitamins.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Le Gardera

On the nose the red wine of Château Le Gardera. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, cassis or red fruit and sometimes also flavors of spices, oak or earth. In the mouth the red wine of Château Le Gardera. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Le Gardera

  • 2016With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.50/5

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon blanc

Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.

The top white wines of Château Le Gardera

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Château Le Gardera

How Château Le Gardera wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of tagliatelle with carbonara, light tuna-tomato quiche (without cream) or spaetzle.

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

  • Sauvignon Blanc

The word of the wine: Texture

In tasting, the equivalent of touch. It is the set of tactile sensations perceived by the mucous membranes of the mouth: silky, velvety, sticky, fatty, astringent, pasty, etc.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Le Gardera

Planning a wine route in the of Bordeaux Supérieur? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Le Gardera.

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 Le Gardera and wines from the region

Bordeaux château to ‘simulate’ 2050 vintage climate

Château La Tour Carnet said it will expose an experimental vineyard to artificially higher temperatures to replicate some of the conditions the Bordeaux 2050 vintage may face due to climate change. It’s part of the ‘Oracle’ project at the fourth growth estate, which is among those in Bordeaux seeking to understand how well classic grape varieties like Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot can adapt to climate change. At La Tour Carnet, warming cables more commonly used in aeroplanes will be employed thi ...

Are Bordeaux and Napa close to ‘tipping point’ on global warming? – Study

Writing in the Oeno One journal, researchers said climate data showed a significant increase in average growing season temperatures in both Napa and Bordeaux, particularly since the 1980s. So far the warmer conditions have generally contributed to better average wine quality, noted the authors, from the University of Bordeaux’s ISVV Institut des Sciences de la Vigne et du Vin and UC Davis. Yet, they questioned how long this would continue. The authors said: ‘In Napa and Bordeaux, viticulture has ...

Château Peyrabon in Bordeaux gets new owner

BCAP, a group controlled by the Castéja family, has agreed to acquire Château Peyrabon and Château La Fleur Peyrabon from Millésima, a subsidiary of the Bernard family, a joint-statement by both families said. Financial details weren’t disclosed. Peyrabon, in Haut-Médoc, was ranked as a ‘Supérieur’ estate in the Cru Bourgeois 2020 classification, which saw the ranking return to a three-tier system. ‘Supérieur’ is above standard Cru Bourgeois level but below ‘Exceptionnel’. Millésima and the Bern ...

The word of the wine: Texture

In tasting, the equivalent of touch. It is the set of tactile sensations perceived by the mucous membranes of the mouth: silky, velvety, sticky, fatty, astringent, pasty, etc.