The Winery Le Marques Du Grand Barrail of Médoc of Bordeaux

Winery Le Marques Du Grand Barrail
Only one wine is currently referenced in this domain
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 1606 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Médoc in the region of Bordeaux

The Winery Le Marques Du Grand Barrail 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 Le Marques Du Grand Barrail wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Le Marques Du Grand Barrail

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Le Marques Du Grand Barrail

How Winery Le Marques Du Grand Barrail wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of caramelized beef with onions, leg or shoulder of lamb with honey and thyme or rabbit with prunes.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Le Marques Du Grand Barrail

  • 2012With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.70/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Le Marques Du Grand Barrail.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • 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 Le Marques Du Grand Barrail and wines from the region

Photo Highlights: Decanter Taste With The Experts featuring Médoc Grand Cru Classé 2017

Decanter hosted its first tasting for the monthly event series Taste with the Experts last month at its very own Tasting Suite in London’s Paddington. Host Andy Howard MW guided 12 guests through an exclusive blind tasting of the Médoc Grand Cru Classé 2017, often described as a ‘forgotten vintage’ but one that produced a wonderful array of wines that are already approachable and more than deserve their place on tables and in cellars. The event was a very special evening giving Decan ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘Drinking cheap wine need not be a cheap experience’

Annual domestic gas bills in the UK threaten to rival, in craziness, the price of a box of Bordeaux first growths. Those energy costs have sent the price of almost everything else ripping up after them. Is there, um, anything to be said for cheap wine? There is. First, though, we must sip the bitter harvest of alcohol taxes. These are high in the UK and higher still in Scandinavia, Australia, New Zealand and India; they tend to vary by state in the US and by province in Canada, and in general th ...

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 ...

The word of the wine: Tressallier

White grape variety from the Allier region, identical to the Sacy variety grown in Burgundy. Rarely vinified on its own, it is used in the blending of Saint-Pourçain white wines, associated with chardonnay, the main grape variety of the appellation. Syn.: sacy.

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