The Winery Les Terrasses du Calvaire of Hermitage of Rhone Valley

Winery Les Terrasses du Calvaire - Hermitage
Only one wine is currently referenced in this domain
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 12 of the estates of Rhone Valley.
It is located in Hermitage in the region of Rhone Valley

The Winery Les Terrasses du Calvaire is one of the world's great estates. It offers 1 wines for sale in of Hermitage to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Les Terrasses du Calvaire wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Les Terrasses du Calvaire

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Les Terrasses du Calvaire

How Winery Les Terrasses du Calvaire wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of pork colombo, codfish portuguese style or jack be little in a hat ....

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Les Terrasses du Calvaire

  • 2014With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Les Terrasses du Calvaire.

  • Marsanne

Discovering the wine region of Hermitage

The wine region of Hermitage is located in the region of Rhône septentrional of Rhone Valley of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Jean-Louis Chave or the Domaine Jean-Louis Chave produce mainly wines red, white and sweet. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Hermitage are Marsanne, Roussanne and Mourvèdre, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Hermitage often reveals types of flavors of cherry, lavender or marzipan and sometimes also flavors of biscuits, yellow apple or petroleum.

In the mouth of Hermitage is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 84 estates and châteaux in the of Hermitage, producing 177 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Hermitage go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Les Terrasses du Calvaire

Planning a wine route in the of Hermitage? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Les Terrasses du Calvaire.

Discover the grape variety: Ugni

Ugni blanc is a grape variety originating from Italy. 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 large bunches and small to medium sized grapes. Ugni blanc can be found in many vineyards: South West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Rhone valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Armagnac, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

News about Winery Les Terrasses du Calvaire 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 ...

Crozes-Hermitage 2020: report and top-scoring wines

Despite the very dry conditions, this feels like a more naturally balanced vintage than 2017, 2018 and 2019. Scroll down for tasting notes and scores for the top-scoring Crozes-Hermitage 2020 wines {"content":"PHA+VGhlIHdpbmVzIGFyZSBqdWljeSBhbmQgY29uY2VudHJhdGVkIHdpdGhvdXQgZmVlbGluZyBoZWF2eS48L3A+CjxwPjxkaXYgY2xhc3M9ImFkLWNvbnRhaW5lciBhZC1jb250YWluZXItLW1vYmlsZSI+PGRpdiBpZD0icG9zdC1pbmxpbmUtMSIgY2xhc3M9ImlwYy1hZHZlcnQiPjwvZGl2PjwvZGl2PjwvcD4KPHA+U29tZSBoYXZlIGEgZ3JlZW4gc3RyZWFrIGR ...

Wartime Cognac

The French shipment of 600 bottles of De Haartman & Co Cognac – plus 15 boxes of Bénédictine liqueur – is believed to have been destined for Tsar Nicholas II, but was intercepted in the Baltic Sea and sunk by a German submarine in May 1917. Now Cognac house Birkedal Hartmann has refilled 300 of the recovered bottles with Cognac dating from the early 1900s, using packaging identical to the original, and is selling them for €9,000 each. The wreck of the SS Kyros was discovered by Swedish explo ...

The word of the wine: Thinning out

Operation consisting in eliminating the suckers that grow on the vine stocks.

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