The Winery Le Heron of Gascogne of South West

Winery Le Heron - Chardonnay
The winery offers 9 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is ranked in the top 65 of the estates of South West.
It is located in Gascogne in the region of South West

The Winery Le Heron is one of the world's great estates. It offers 9 wines for sale in of Gascogne to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Le Heron wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Le Heron

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Le Heron

How Winery Le Heron wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of rabbit in white wine (casserole), potato and tuna gratin or leek, goat cheese and bacon quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Le Heron

On the nose the white wine of Winery Le Heron. often reveals types of flavors of citrus, oak or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit, tropical fruit or grapefruit.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Le Heron

  • 2017With an average score of 3.78/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.66/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.64/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.59/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.56/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.38/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Le Heron.

  • Gros Manseng
  • Colombard
  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Chardonnay
  • Ugni blanc
  • Sauvignon Gris

Discovering the wine region of Gascogne

Between the Landes forest, the Garonne and the Pyrenees, the Gascony hillsides cover the Gers dePartment and part of the Landes and Lot-et-Garonne departments. The vineyards occupy the same area as Armagnac, a brandy still produced in the region, but whose volumes have declined in favour of vins de pays (now PGI). Under the influence of a mild oceanic Climate, it is fairly wet in the west, drier in the east, especially in summer. In the west, the subsoil of tawny sands is of marine origin, covered with boulbènes; in the east, it gradually gives way to molasse, a rock resulting from the erosion of the Pyrenees.

The soils are either stony and chalky (peyrusquets) or clayey and Deep (terrefort), retaining water well. The Condom region, the driest, has its own name (Condomois). The main Grape varieties cultivated are white: Colombard and Ugni blanc, the varieties of armagnac. Generally associated, sometimes completed by Sauvignon and Chardonnay, they give lively white wines with an exuberant fruitiness.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Le Heron

Planning a wine route in the of Gascogne? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Le Heron.

Discover the grape variety: Ugni

Ugni blanc is a grape variety originating from Italy. It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by large bunches and small to medium sized grapes. Ugni blanc can be found in many vineyards: South West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Rhone valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Armagnac, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

News about Winery Le Heron and wines from the region

Michelin Guide 2022: UK & Ireland winners announced

Every year the hospitality industry holds its breath as the revised line up of the Michelin Guide is announced. A star won – or lost – is often a pivotal moment in the consolidation of a venue’s name and the reputation of the chef, sommelier and restaurateurs behind it. Yesterday, February 16th, the Michelin Stars were unveiled for this year’s Michelin Great Britain & Ireland Guide, with 19 restaurants having been newly awarded a star, bringing the total number of one starred restaurants in ...

Canada’s Okanagan Valley approves six new sub-appellations

Canada’s western province of British Columbia (BC), has approved six new sub-appellations for its most famous wine-growing region of Okanagan Valley. The Okanagan Valley is BC’s largest appellation – called Geographical Indications (GIs) in Canada. And from a standing start in 2015, it now has 11 sub-GIs following the recent ratification. The six new sub-GIs are: Summerland Valleys, Summerland Lakefront, Summerland Bench, East Kelowna Slopes, South Kelowna Slopes and Lake Country. They are now l ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘2021 has been the year of all the miseries’

How’s the weather been this year? Awful. ‘La nature m’écoeure’, one of my wine-growing friends posted on Facebook on 8 April, having been out to look at the frost-crippled shoots on his vines that morning: ‘Nature disgusts me’. It takes a lot to make a wine-grower feel that. He wasn’t alone. Jeremiads echo around the northern hemisphere as 2021 closes. It’s been the year of all the miseries. None suffered more horribly than the growers of Germany’s Ahr valley, where floodwaters caused by the fou ...

The word of the wine: Sulphating

Treatment, formerly practiced with copper sulfate, applied to the vine to prevent cryptogamic diseases.