Winery Les Vignerons de Saint Jean de MinervoisVendanges d’Automne
Natural sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with spicy food and sweet desserts.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Vendanges d’Automne of Winery Les Vignerons de Saint Jean de Minervois in the region of Languedoc-Roussillon often reveals types of flavors of honey, earth or citrus fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Vendanges d’Automne
Pairings that work perfectly with Vendanges d’Automne
Original food and wine pairings with Vendanges d’Automne
The Vendanges d’Automne of Winery Les Vignerons de Saint Jean de Minervois matches generally quite well with dishes of spicy food or sweet desserts such as recipes of pad thai or express cherry clafoutis.
Details and technical informations about Winery Les Vignerons de Saint Jean de Minervois's Vendanges d’Automne.
Discover the grape variety: Crescent
A direct-producer hybrid of American origin resulting from an interspecific cross between Saint Pepin and Elmer Swenson 6-8-25 (vitis riparia X Hamburg muscatel) obtained in 1988 by Peter Hemstad and James Luby at the University of Minnesota Research Center (United States). It can also be found in Canada, Ukraine, Russia, etc. and is virtually unknown in France.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Vendanges d’Automne from Winery Les Vignerons de Saint Jean de Minervois are 2005
Informations about the Winery Les Vignerons de Saint Jean de Minervois
The Winery Les Vignerons de Saint Jean de Minervois is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 14 wines for sale in the of Muscat de St. Jean de Minervois to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Muscat de St. Jean de Minervois
Muscat de Saint-Jean-de-Minervois is a Sweet, fortified, natural wine appellation from the Languedoc wine region in Southern France. The wines are based on the Muscat Blanc a Petits Grains Grape variety. Muscat de Saint-Jean-de-Minervois wines are produced using a traditional sweet winemaking process called Mutage, which involves adding Alcohol to the grape must to prematurely stop the Yeast">yeast and thus the Fermentation process. They generally have a residual sugar content of about 125 grams per litre and an alcohol content of about 15%.
The wine region of Languedoc-Roussillon
Languedoc (formerly Coteaux du Languedoc) is a key appellation used in the Languedoc-Roussillon wine region of southern France. It covers Dry table wines of all three colors (red, white and rosé) from the entire region, but leaves Sweet and Sparkling wines to other more specialized appellations. About 75% of all Languedoc wines are red, with the remaining 25% split roughly down the middle between whites and rosés. The appellation covers most of the Languedoc region and almost a third of all the vineyards in France.
The word of the wine: Second fermentation
In the making of champagne, fermentation of the base wine to which is added the liqueur de tirage and which takes place in the bottle. This second fermentation produces the carbon dioxide, and therefore the bubbles that make up the effervescence of the wine.
