The Winery Les Courlandes of Châteauneuf-du-Pape of Rhone Valley

Winery Les Courlandes - Châteauneuf-du-Pape
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 171 of the estates of Rhone Valley.
It is located in Châteauneuf-du-Pape in the region of Rhone Valley

The Winery Les Courlandes is one of the best wineries to follow in Châteauneuf-du-Pape.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Châteauneuf-du-Pape to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Les Courlandes wines

Looking for the best Winery Les Courlandes wines in Châteauneuf-du-Pape among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Les Courlandes 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 Les Courlandes wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Les Courlandes

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Les Courlandes

How Winery Les Courlandes wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of lamb, pork or poultry such as recipes of couscous of meat and fish, pork chops with curry and honey or moist parmesan steak.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Les Courlandes

On the nose the red wine of Winery Les Courlandes. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, dark fruit or black licorice and sometimes also flavors of black cherries, smoke or aniseed. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Les Courlandes. is a powerful.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Les Courlandes

  • 2011With an average score of 4.60/5
  • 2012With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.95/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.82/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.82/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Les Courlandes.

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Grenache
  • Mourvedre
  • Carignan

Discovering the wine region of Châteauneuf-du-Pape

The wine region of Châteauneuf-du-Pape is located in the region of Rhône méridional of Rhone Valley of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Pegau or the Château Rayas produce mainly wines red and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Châteauneuf-du-Pape are Mourvèdre, Roussanne and Clairette, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Châteauneuf-du-Pape often reveals types of flavors of iron, chestnut or red licorice and sometimes also flavors of tarragon, pencil shavings or cured meat.

In the mouth of Châteauneuf-du-Pape is a powerful with a nice freshness. We currently count 704 estates and châteaux in the of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, producing 1551 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Châteauneuf-du-Pape go well with generally quite well with dishes of lamb, pork or poultry.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Les Courlandes

Planning a wine route in the of Châteauneuf-du-Pape? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Les Courlandes.

Discover the grape variety: Carignan

Mainly cultivated in the Languedoc region, carignan originates from Spain. Because of its very resistant branches, it is often called hardwood. Its bunches are quite large. They are compact and winged with a lignified stalk. The berries are spherical in shape and take on a bluish-black colour. Carignan has a total of 25 approved clones, the best known of which are 274, 65 and 9. The carignan buds at the beginning of June and is protected from spring frosts. It does not reach maturity until the third period. Also, this grape variety needs warmth and sunshine. It appreciates dry and not very fertile soils. Carignan vines can live for more than 100 years. Those that are more than 30 years old produce a better wine. This wine is well coloured. It is generous and powerful at the same time. Pepper, cherry, blackberry, banana, raspberry, almond, prune and violet are some of the aromas that this grape variety gives off.

News about Winery Les Courlandes and wines from the region

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 ...

Walls: Domaine de la Janasse, Vieilles Vignes 2011-2000 vertical

Some Châteauneufs are more reliable than others. When I visit the region to taste the new vintage every year, Domaine de la Janasse’s cuvée Vieilles Vignes regularly features among the best. It’s a particularly dense and concentrated wine when young, and it always strikes me that, even for Châteauneuf, it’s a wine that needs extended ageing to show its best. I was keen to acquire a more complete understanding of how this cuvée develops, so I visited brother-and-sister team Isabelle and Christoph ...

Christie’s 2021 DWWA charity wine auction sets new record

A total of £72,600 was raised from 79 lots at the sixteenth DWWA wine auction hosted by Christie’s on 2 December – beating a record set in 2018. This total excludes Christie’s buyer’s premium. All proceeds will be added to funds raised by Decanter throughout the DWWA this year. Charities supported include The Drinks Trust, WaterAid, Cancer Research UK, Change Please, Decanter Apprenticeships and more. Over the past 12 months, Decanter has donated in excess of £100,000 to these charities. T ...

The word of the wine: Color

The colour of wines is characterized by its intensity and its nuances of hue. The intensity is specific to each grape variety, while the nuances of colour are linked to the evolution of the wine over time.