The Château Les Hivers Grillet of Bordeaux

Château Les Hivers Grillet - Blaye Côtes de Bordeaux
The winery offers 10 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is ranked in the top 4937 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Bordeaux

The Château Les Hivers Grillet is one of the best wineries to follow in Bordeaux.. It offers 10 wines for sale in of Bordeaux to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Les Hivers Grillet wines

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

The top red wines of Château Les Hivers Grillet

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Les Hivers Grillet

How Château Les Hivers Grillet wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of daube niçoise, mouse of lamb with thyme or duck breast with spices, roasted figs with honey and port.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Les Hivers Grillet

On the nose the red wine of Château Les Hivers Grillet. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, oak. In the mouth the red wine of Château Les Hivers Grillet. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Les Hivers Grillet

  • 2006With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.62/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.51/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.45/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.36/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.30/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Les Hivers Grillet.

  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Petit Verdot
  • Malbec

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.

The top white wines of Château Les Hivers Grillet

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Château Les Hivers Grillet

How Château Les Hivers Grillet wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of quiche with bacon and gruyère cheese, quiche without pastry or chicken chawarma.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Château Les Hivers Grillet.

  • Sauvignon Blanc

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Les Hivers Grillet

Planning a wine route in the of Bordeaux? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Les Hivers Grillet.

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 Hivers Grillet and wines from the region

DBR Lafite CEO Jean-Guillaume Prats to step down

Jean-Guillaume Prats is set to leave the business around four years after being appointed CEO and president of Domaines Barons de Rothschild (DBR Lafite). A DBR Lafite spokesperson said Prats would leave before the end of the year, in order to ‘devote himself to his family business and to consulting’. Group chairwoman Saskia de Rothschild will take over the executive management of DBR Lafite as of December. Prats’ arrival at DBR Lafite was announced in November 2017 as part of a leadership ...

Bordeaux château to ‘simulate’ 2050 vintage climate

Château La Tour Carnet said it will expose an experimental vineyard to artificially higher temperatures to replicate some of the conditions the Bordeaux 2050 vintage may face due to climate change. It’s part of the ‘Oracle’ project at the fourth growth estate, which is among those in Bordeaux seeking to understand how well classic grape varieties like Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot can adapt to climate change. At La Tour Carnet, warming cables more commonly used in aeroplanes will be employed thi ...

Top DWWA award-winning wines on show at Decanter Fine Wine Encounter NYC

At the 2021 Decanter World Wine Awards, the world’s largest wine competition saw its biggest year to date, with 18,094 wines tasted from 56 countries. Over 15 consecutive days in June 2021, almost 170 expert wine judges, including 44 Masters of Wine and 11 Master Sommeliers, awarded 50 Best in Show, 179 Platinum, 635 Gold, 5,607 Silver and 8,332 Bronze medals. Join Decanter at our Fine Wine Encounter NYC this June, where you will have the opportunity to sample 23 of these top awarded Gold, Plati ...

The word of the wine: Climate

Term used in Burgundy to designate a locality. The most famous climats are subject to specific recognition and constitute the first growths.