The Château Les Graves La Valade of Bordeaux

Château Les Graves La Valade - Blaye - Côtes de Bordeaux
The winery offers 6 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.4.
It is ranked in the top 6656 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Bordeaux
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The Château Les Graves La Valade is one of the best wineries to follow in Bordeaux.. It offers 6 wines for sale in of Bordeaux to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Les Graves La Valade wines

Looking for the best Château Les Graves La Valade wines in Bordeaux among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Les Graves La Valade 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 Château Les Graves La Valade wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château Les Graves La Valade

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Les Graves La Valade

How Château Les Graves La Valade wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of german recipe for marinated meat: sauerbraten, paupiettes in a casserole with cream or rabbit italian style.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Les Graves La Valade

On the nose the red wine of Château Les Graves La Valade. often reveals types of flavors of earthy, cheese or earth and sometimes also flavors of microbio. In the mouth the red wine of Château Les Graves La Valade. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Les Graves La Valade

  • 2015With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2011With an average score of 2.80/5
  • 2013With an average score of 2.40/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Les Graves La Valade.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Malbec
  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Franc

Discovering the wine region of Bordeaux

Bordeaux, in southwestern France, is one of the most famous, prestigious and prolific wine regions in the world. The majority of Bordeaux wines (nearly 90% of the production Volume) are the Dry, medium and Full-bodied red Bordeaux blends for which it is famous. The finest (and most expensive) are the wines of the great châteaux of Haut-Médoc and the right bank appellations of Saint-Émilion and Pomerol. The former focuses (at the highest level) on Cabernet Sauvignon, the latter on Merlot.

The legendary reds are complemented by high-quality white wines made from Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc. These range from dry whites that challenge the best of Burgundy (Pessac-Léognan is particularly renowned) to the Sweet, botrytised nectars of Sauternes. Although Bordeaux is most famous for its wines produced in specific districts or communes, many of its wines fall under other, broader appellations. These include AOC Bordeaux, Bordeaux Supérieur and Crémant de Bordeaux.

The Bordeaux Red appellation represents more than a third of the total production. The official Bordeaux wine region extends 130 kilometres inland from the Atlantic coast. 111,000 hectares of vineyards were registered in 2018, a figure that has remained largely constant over the previous decade. However, the number of winegrowers has consolidated; in 2018 there were around 6,000, compared to 9,000 a decade earlier.

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Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.

News about Château Les Graves La Valade and wines from the region

Fine wine market breaks records in 2021, says Liv-ex

Prices in the fine wine market have been increasing across all major regions in 2021, according to a new report by Liv-ex, a global marketplace for the trade. Its Liv-ex 1000 index, tracking some of the world’s most sought-after wines, rose by 2.4% in November to reach a new all-time high. The index, seen as an important bellwether for secondary market trading, has been rising consistently for about 18 months. ‘All previous records set in 2020 have been broken and surpassed in 2021, markin ...

Auction of Washington Wines raises $4m

‘Thanks to our incredibly generous wineries, donors, and sponsors, the AWW can continue its mission to uplift the Washington wine industry and grow its efforts to support healthy communities and healthy land in Washington state’, said Jamie Peha, executive director of the Auction of Washington Wines. ‘Together with our philanthropic partners, Seattle Children’s, WSU Viticulture & Enology Research, and Industry Grant Partner Vital Wines, we ensure that our charitable efforts ...

Pomerol granted permission for ‘exceptional’ irrigation

‘Climatic conditions’ and the requests of a ‘certain number of winegrowers’ were cited as the reasons for Jean-Marie Garde, president of the Pomerol appellation, to ask regulatory body Institut National de l’Origine et de la Qualité (INAO) to temporarily reverse the long-standing ban on irrigation. The favourable news was shared via emails seen by Decanter, with an accompanying letter from the INAO dated July 20, 2022. The letter, translated from French, states that after ...

The word of the wine: Fleshy

Said of a wine that gives the impression of being dense and smooth, a bit like biting into the flesh of a ripe fruit.

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