The Château Lestours Clocher of Rhône méridional of Rhone Valley

Château Lestours Clocher
The winery offers 10 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.2.
This estate is part of the Arnoux & Fils.
It is ranked in the top 838 of the estates of Rhone Valley.
It is located in Rhône méridional in the region of Rhone Valley

The Château Lestours Clocher is one of the best wineries to follow in Rhône méridional.. It offers 10 wines for sale in of Rhône méridional to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Lestours Clocher wines

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

The top red wines of Château Lestours Clocher

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Lestours Clocher

How Château Lestours Clocher wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of lamb, pork or poultry such as recipes of lamb roast with lavender, italian pasta or turkey blanquette with mushrooms.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Lestours Clocher

On the nose the red wine of Château Lestours Clocher. often reveals types of flavors of earth, spices or black fruit and sometimes also flavors of oaky, blackberry or tobacco. In the mouth the red wine of Château Lestours Clocher. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Lestours Clocher

  • 2012With an average score of 4.04/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.83/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.82/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Lestours Clocher.

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Grenache
  • Mourvedre
  • Carignan
  • Cinsault

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 white wines of Château Lestours Clocher

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Château Lestours Clocher

How Château Lestours Clocher 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 leek, goat cheese and bacon quiche, sea bass in mustard and rosemary wrappers or gratin in pink and blue.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Château Lestours Clocher.

  • Viognier
  • Roussanne
  • Marsanne

Discover the grape variety: Roussanne

Roussane is a white grape variety, planted on an area of more than 700 ha. Originally from Montélimar, it is also found in Savoie, Languedoc and Roussillon, and grows very well in calcareous, poor, stony soil. It prefers to be pruned short. Roussane is also called fromenteau, barbin or bergeron. The young leaves are bubbled with fine down. When adult, they become thicker. It flowers in June and matures in mid-September. The grapes are cylindrical in shape, the berries are small and turn red when ripe, and the wine produced from pure Roussane is of extraordinary quality. It has a delicate aroma reminiscent of coffee, honeysuckle, iris and peony. The taste of this wine improves with age. It is part of the blend of the appellations Vin-de-Savoie, Côtes-du-Vallée du Rhône or Châteauneuf-du-Pape.

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Discover the grape variety: Cinsault

Cinsaut noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Provence). 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 large bunches and large grapes. Cinsaut noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Rhône valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Armagnac.

News about Château Lestours Clocher and wines from the region

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At the heart of the Mâcon terroir

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The word of the wine: Sweet

Wine with a slightly sickening sweetness.

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