The Winery Les Sommets of Rhône méridional of Rhone Valley

Winery Les Sommets
The winery offers 11 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is ranked in the top 8816 of the estates of Rhone Valley.
It is located in Rhône méridional in the region of Rhone Valley

The Winery Les Sommets is one of the best wineries to follow in Rhône méridional.. It offers 11 wines for sale in of Rhône méridional to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Les Sommets wines

Looking for the best Winery Les Sommets wines in Rhône méridional among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Les Sommets 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 Sommets wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Les Sommets

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Les Sommets

How Winery Les Sommets wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of guinea fowl with cabbage, barbecued mackerel papillotes or quiche with leeks and fresh salmon from flo.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Les Sommets

  • 2014With an average score of 3.80/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Les Sommets.

  • Chardonnay
  • Viognier

Discovering the wine region of Rhône méridional

Côtes du Rhône is a regional appellation in the Rhône Valley in eastern France. It applies to red, rosé and white wines, and includes more than 170 villages. The area follows the course of the Rhône southward for 125 miles (200 km) from Saint-Cyr-sur-le-Rhône to Avignon. A small portion of the wines in the appellation are white wines.

However, the classic Côtes du Rhône wine is a blend of Fruity, medium-weight reds made from Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre. The Côtes du Rhône appellation was introduced in November 1937. Its purpose was to give a general title to good quality Rhone wines from the lesser known and less prestigious wine producing areas of the valley. Côtes du Rhône The landscape of the Côtes du Rhône.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Les Sommets

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Les Sommets

How Winery Les Sommets wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

Discover the grape variety: Viognier

White Viognier is a grape variety that originated in France (Rhone Valley). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and grapes of small size. White Viognier can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone Valley, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Savoie & Bugey, Provence & Corsica, Loire Valley, Beaujolais.

The top red wines of Winery Les Sommets

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

How Winery Les Sommets wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of roasted fillet of beef with parsley, lamb sweetbreads with white wine and sorrel cream or alsatian wine pie.

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

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Grenache
  • Mourvedre

The word of the wine: Pitting (acetic)

Synonymous with acescence.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Les Sommets

Planning a wine route in the of Rhône méridional? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Les Sommets.

Discover the grape variety: Grenache

Grenache noir is a grape variety that originated in Spain. It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by medium to large bunches, and grapes of medium size. Grenache noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Languedoc & Roussillon, Rhone Valley, Loire Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

News about Winery Les Sommets and wines from the region

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Decanter World Wine Awards winners available at Marks & Spencer

Marks & Spencer is no stranger to achieving top scores at the Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA), and to celebrate its results the leading retailer has selected its favourite award-winning wines from this year’s awards, for customers to purchase exclusively on marksandspencer.com. Customers can choose from a carefully selected mix of six delicious winter-warming reds; an irresistible mix of crisp, refreshing, complex white wines from the Old and New World; a mix of both red and white wi ...

Rhône 2021: best value wines

Severe frost in early April wreaked havoc across both the northern and southern appellations of the Rhône Valley in 2021, with many producers losing a large majority of their crop. The reds that did materialise tend towards lean, green flavours, because grapes struggled to ripen. A few producers struck lucky, with late-budding varieties or pockets of vineyard less affected by frost. But overall, it is the whites that really shine, showing freshness, precision and longevity. St-Joseph, Vacqueyras ...

The word of the wine: Pitting (acetic)

Synonymous with acescence.