The Les Vignobles Monroux of Côtes de Provence of Provence

Les Vignobles Monroux
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 758 of the estates of Provence.
It is located in Côtes de Provence in the region of Provence

The Les Vignobles Monroux is one of the best wineries to follow in Côtes de Provence.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Côtes de Provence to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Les Vignobles Monroux wines

Looking for the best Les Vignobles Monroux wines in Côtes de Provence among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Les Vignobles Monroux 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 Les Vignobles Monroux wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Les Vignobles Monroux

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Les Vignobles Monroux

How Les Vignobles Monroux wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of hungarian goulash, leg of lamb brissac (leftover leg of lamb) or wild boar stew.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Les Vignobles Monroux

On the nose the red wine of Les Vignobles Monroux. often reveals types of flavors of leather, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Les Vignobles Monroux. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Les Vignobles Monroux

  • 2009With an average score of 3.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Les Vignobles Monroux.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Côtes de Provence

The AOC Côtes de Provence is the largest appellation in the Provence wine region of southeastern France. It covers about 20,000 hectares of vineyards, which produce the vast majority of Provence's rosé wine. This appellation includes most of the vineyards in the Var department - essentially the eastern half of the Provence wine region - with the exception of 2,250 hectares North of Toulon which are reserved for the Côteaux Varois en Provence appellation. Although it also covers red and white wine, about 80% of Côtes de Provence production is rosé.

This wine is mainly made from the Grenache, Syrah, Mourvèdre and Cinsaut grapes, as well as the quintessential Provence red Tibouren. Although clearly a minority, the Volume of red wine produced under this title (and elsewhere in Provence) is increasing and currently represents about 15% of the total. Grapes such as the three key Rhone varieties mentioned above and Cabernet Sauvignon (introduced here in the 1960s) are being used by a New wave of winemakers eager to demonstrate that rosé is not the only interesting wine in the region. Only about five percent of Côtes de Provence wines are made from white grapes, particularly Rolle (Vermentino).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Les Vignobles Monroux

Planning a wine route in the of Côtes de Provence? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Les Vignobles Monroux.

Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). 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 to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

News about Les Vignobles Monroux and wines from the region

Brad Pitt’s Rosé Champagne chosen for Oscars 2022

Fleur de Miraval will be poured at the Dolby Theatre during the Oscars (27 March), as well as during the Governors Ball – the Academy’s official afterparty – and at other Oscars-related events in Los Angeles, New York City, and London, including the Oscars Nominees Luncheon on 7 March. Serving Fleur de Miraval Rosé Champagne, best known for its association with Pitt, was a ‘natural choice’, the champagne brand said in a statement announcing the news. ‘Fleur de Miraval will now ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘Rosé, for the time being, is a pretty babble’

Many wine styles can seem perplexing at first: imagine the first bottle of Barolo if you only know Barossa Shiraz, or the first bottle of Jura Savagnin if you were brought up on California Chardonnay. With time, thought and repeated tasting, though, comes understanding. You learn each wine’s syntax and lexicon, its hints and inferences. You grasp the ways in which each style communicates. Its beauty dawns, then grows. Rosé wine sales grew 23% worldwide between 2002 and 2019. Its fuel has come fr ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘A wine’s visual cues shout, stamp, whistle and roar’

Disconcerting: I couldn’t forget this bottle for days afterwards. Still can’t. Back in August, wine critic Lin Liu MW (together with her partner Philippe Lejeune of Château de Chambert in Cahors) came to dinner, en route to a short holiday in Provence. One of the bottles Lin brought for us to try together was the 2018 Les Rocheuses, Parcelles No 5 et 6, from Château Le Rey in Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux. It came in a slope-shouldered bottle, not a classic Bordeaux bottle. We tried it with some R ...

The word of the wine: Effervescent

Any wine loaded with CO2 (carbon dioxide), which is revealed in the form of bubbles, reinforcing the freshness effect in the mouth. This gas production is the result of what is called the second fermentation in the bottle. It occurs in champagnes and sparkling wines such as crémants.