The Winery Les Vins Contes of Touraine of Loire Valley

Winery Les Vins Contes
The winery offers 21 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 43 of the estates of Loire Valley.
It is located in Touraine in the region of Loire Valley

The Winery Les Vins Contes is one of the world's great estates. It offers 21 wines for sale in of Touraine to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Les Vins Contes wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Les Vins Contes

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Les Vins Contes

How Winery Les Vins Contes wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, lean fish or fruity desserts such as recipes of marmite dieppoise, back of cod with old-fashioned mustard or apple pie.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Les Vins Contes

On the nose the white wine of Winery Les Vins Contes. often reveals types of flavors of green apple, straw or yellow apple and sometimes also flavors of floral, red fruit or spices.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Les Vins Contes

  • 2017With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.99/5
  • 2001With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.76/5
  • 2008With an average score of 3.71/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.66/5

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

  • Menu Pineau
  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Aligoté
  • Chenin Blanc
  • Chardonnay
  • Baco Blanc

Discovering the wine region of Touraine

The wine region of Touraine is located in the region of Centre Loire of Loire Valley of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Famille Bougrier or the Domaine Joel Delaunay produce mainly wines white, red and sparkling. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Touraine are Cabernet franc, Gamay noir and Chenin blanc, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Touraine often reveals types of flavors of grapefruit, tar or kiwi and sometimes also flavors of lime zest, lychee or asparagus.

In the mouth of Touraine is a with a nice freshness. We currently count 638 estates and châteaux in the of Touraine, producing 1688 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Touraine go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish.

The top red wines of Winery Les Vins Contes

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Les Vins Contes

How Winery Les Vins Contes wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, spicy food or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of barbecue burger, creole chipolatas or comté cheese and cream soufflé.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Les Vins Contes

On the nose the red wine of Winery Les Vins Contes. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, tree fruit or oaky and sometimes also flavors of blueberry, minerality or sour cherry.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Les Vins Contes

  • 2019With an average score of 4.08/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.98/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.95/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.83/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.78/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.69/5

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

  • Gamay
  • Pineau D'Aunis
  • Malbec
  • Pinot Noir
  • Grolleau
  • Cabernet Franc

Discover the grape variety: Menu Pineau

The top pink wines of Winery Les Vins Contes

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Les Vins Contes

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

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Winery Les Vins Contes

On the nose the pink wine of Winery Les Vins Contes. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, strawberries or cranberry and sometimes also flavors of rhubarb, yeast or earth.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Les Vins Contes

  • 2008With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.90/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Les Vins Contes.

  • Grolleau
  • Pineau D'Aunis

The word of the wine: Budding

Phase of the vegetative cycle of the vine corresponding to the bursting of the buds and the appearance of the first leaves.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Les Vins Contes

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

Discover the grape variety: Aligoté

Aligoté is an ancient Burgundian grape variety (it has different names depending on the region in which it is grown: griset blanc in Beaune, giboudot blanc in the Chalonnais or troyen blanc in the Aube), mainly used in the production of Bourgogne-Aligoté, Bouzeron and Crémant-de-Bourgogne.aligoté is a medium-fine white grape variety, quite productive, which gives clear, acidic, fresh and light white wines. An anecdote often says that it was a member of the clergy named Kir who gave it its letters of nobility by adding it to blackcurrant cream to prepare an aperitif.produced on more than 1,600 hectares in Burgundy, aligoté has also been exported. It is also cultivated in Eastern Europe (Ukraine, Romania), California, Canada and Chile, representing more than 20,000 hectares in the world.

News about Winery Les Vins Contes and wines from the region

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Vergisson

Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Vergisson, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are available in French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneW ...

The Mâcon plus appellation investigated through its geology and geography

The Bourgogne Wine Board (BIVB) invites you to enjoy this video in which Jean-Pierre Renard, Expert Instructor at the Ecole des Vins de Bourgogne, explains the topographical and geological characteristics of the appellation Mâcon plus geographical denomination . The tectonics and the very different nature of the rocks that make up the subsoil of this region explain the great variety of soils found in this part fo Bourgogne. It also explains why each wine offers a different personnality. This vid ...

An overview of Morey Saint Denis appellation

The Bourgogne Wine Board (BIVB) invites you to a survey above the vineyard of Morey-Saint-Denis, typical of the côte de Nuits region. Situated at the center of this region, the vineyard neighbours the appellation Gevrey-Chambertin to the north and Chambolle-Musigny to the south. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneWines/​​​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinsdebourgogne/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bivb ...

The word of the wine: Budding

Phase of the vegetative cycle of the vine corresponding to the bursting of the buds and the appearance of the first leaves.