The Winery Le Vieux Pigeonnier of Libournais of Bordeaux

Winery Le Vieux Pigeonnier - Bordeaux
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is ranked in the top 4214 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Libournais in the region of Bordeaux

The Winery Le Vieux Pigeonnier is one of the best wineries to follow in Libournais.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Libournais to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Le Vieux Pigeonnier wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Le Vieux Pigeonnier

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

How Winery Le Vieux Pigeonnier wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of roast beef in a crust (onions & mustard), sot- l- leaves or rabbit with prunes in my grandmother's style.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Le Vieux Pigeonnier

  • 2009With an average score of 3.50/5

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot
  • Malbec

Discovering the wine region of Libournais

Rich in world-renowned wines, such as Saint-Emilion Grands Crus and Bordeaux/libournais/pomerol">Pomerol, the Libourne region Lies on the right bank of the Dordogne, on the edge of the Périgord. The region takes its name from the port city of Libourne, where many merchants from the Correze settled in the early 19th century. But its jewel is the small medieval city of Saint-Emilion, listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site and one of the most famous showcases of the Bordeaux wine region. The region is very homogeneous due to its hilly landscapes, its geology (predominantly limestone subsoil), the concentration of vineyards and the importance of family-run, small or medium-sized estates, which contrast with the large Medoc-type estates.

The Libournais is also Distinguished by its Grape variety dominated by Merlot, which gives Finesse, roundness and fruitiness to the red wines and allows them to age well, even if they generally Open up more quickly than those of appellations dominated by Cabernet Sauvignon. .

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Discover the grape variety: Malbec

Malbec, a high-yielding red grape variety, produces tannic and colourful wines. It is produced in different wine-growing regions and changes its name according to the grape variety. Called Auxerrois in Cahors, Malbec in Bordeaux, it is also known as Côt. 6,000 hectares of the Malbec grape are grown in France (in decline since the 1950s). Malbec is also very successful in Argentina. The country has become the world's leading producer of Malbec and offers wines with great potential.

News about Winery Le Vieux Pigeonnier and wines from the region

Rethinking the wine bottle for the future

There’s been a focus on making wine production less energy intensive as well as environmentally friendly in order to address climate change. The efforts continue but, as is the case for electric cars where it’s the battery technology that needs innovating, it’s in wine bottles where we’re seeing rapid change. It comes in a two-pronged attack to reduce energy use in manufacturing and then an even bigger emphasis on reducing bottle weight for shipping to reduce fuel usage and thus CO2 production. ...

Sotheby’s hits record wine and spirits auction sales in 2021

Sotheby’s said wine and spirits auction sales rose by around 44% to $132m (£99.6m) in 2021, boosted by record prices, fresh partnerships and a wave of new buyers. Its figures also offered more evidence of a strong fine wine market this year. Wine represented $111m of Sotheby’s 2021 auction sales, with famous Burgundy labels dominating a list of best-selling lots. Other highlights included a recent sale of Châteaux Rauzan-Ségla and Canon wines, sourced direct from the Chanel-owned estates in Bord ...

Australian wine exports fall as China tariffs bite  

Australian wine exports dropped by 19% to A$2.08bn in the year to 30 June, said trade body Wine Australia this week. While exports to some countries rose, notably the US, the group’s report for the 2021-22 financial year offered fresh insight into a slide in shipments to China. Mainland China imposed varying import tariffs ranging from 116% to more than 200% on Australian bottled wines from late 2020 onwards. Exports to China, including Hong Kong and Macau, dropped by 74% in the 12 months to 30 ...

The word of the wine: Reasoned (agriculture)

Conventional agriculture but concerned with limiting synthetic treatments as much as possible.