The Winery Le Vieux Murier of Rhone Valley

Winery Le Vieux Murier - Les Saviaux Crozes-Hermitage
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.5.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Rhone Valley.
It is located in Rhone Valley
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The Winery Le Vieux Murier is one of the best wineries to follow in Côtes du Rhône.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Rhone Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Le Vieux Murier wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Le Vieux Murier

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Le Vieux Murier

How Winery Le Vieux Murier wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef tongue with vegetables and madeira sauce, lamb mouse with onions and red wine or duck leg confit in white wine.

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

  • Shiraz/Syrah

Discovering the wine region of Rhone Valley

The Rhone Valley is a key wine-producing region in Southeastern France. It follows the North-south course of the Rhône for nearly 240 km, from Lyon to the Rhône delta (Bouches-du-Rhône), near the Mediterranean coast. The Length of the valley means that Rhône wines are the product of a wide variety of soil types and mesoclimates. The viticultural areas of the region cover such a distance that there is a widely accepted division between its northern and southern parts.

They are separated quite clearly by a 40 km gap between the towns of Valance and Montélimar, where vines are hardly ever grown. This division is reflected not only in the geography and preferred Grape varieties, but also in the quality and quantity of the wines produced. The smaller, more quality-oriented north focuses almost entirely on Syrah for red wines and Viognier, Marsanne and Roussanne for whites, while the larger, more prolific south employs a much longer list of grape varieties. Most notable are the red varieties Grenache and Mourvèdre, which are combined with Syrah to produce the "GSM" blend so characteristic of the southern Rhône.

The top white wines of Winery Le Vieux Murier

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Le Vieux Murier

How Winery Le Vieux Murier wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of salty crumble with courgettes, goat cheese and bacon, pan-fried salmon with lemon and dill sauce or cod and zucchini crumble.

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

  • Roussanne
  • Marsanne

Discover the grape variety: Roussanne

Roussane is a white grape variety, planted on an area of more than 700 ha. Originally from Montélimar, it is also found in Savoie, Languedoc and Roussillon, and grows very well in calcareous, poor, stony soil. It prefers to be pruned short. Roussane is also called fromenteau, barbin or bergeron. The young leaves are bubbled with fine down. When adult, they become thicker. It flowers in June and matures in mid-September. The grapes are cylindrical in shape, the berries are small and turn red when ripe, and the wine produced from pure Roussane is of extraordinary quality. It has a delicate aroma reminiscent of coffee, honeysuckle, iris and peony. The taste of this wine improves with age. It is part of the blend of the appellations Vin-de-Savoie, Côtes-du-Vallée du Rhône or Châteauneuf-du-Pape.

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Discover the grape variety: Marsanne

Marsanne is a white grape variety that originated in Montélimar in the Drôme, several centuries ago. Marsanne is also found in Cassis, Savoie, Languedoc-Roussillon and Saint-Péray in the Ardèche, where it produces remarkable sparkling wines. The warm, sunny climate of the Rhone Valley, Languedoc-Roussillon and Provence, as well as the dry, stony soil, are ideal conditions for its development. Its bunches are quite large and provide small, juicy berries that are sensitive to grey rot and strong winds. These two grape varieties complement each other perfectly: together they give light wines with little acidity, aromas of yellow fruit, white fruit and flowers with notes of honey and liquorice. This is for example what the appellations Saint-Péray, Hermitage, Crozes-Hermitage, Saint-Joseph, Côtes-du-Vallée du Rhône, Corbières, or Cassis express... which represent about 700 hectares.

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The word of the wine: Chai

Place where the wine-making process takes place.

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