The Maison Angelot of Bugey of Savoie

Maison Angelot - Bugey Brut
The winery offers 17 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 8 of the estates of Savoie.
It is located in Bugey in the region of Savoie

The Maison Angelot is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 17 wines for sale in of Bugey to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Maison Angelot wines

Looking for the best Maison Angelot wines in Bugey among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Maison Angelot 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 Maison Angelot wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top sparkling wines of Maison Angelot

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Maison Angelot

How Maison Angelot wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of veal chop with mushrooms, pork colombo or rabbit with mushrooms.

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Maison Angelot.

  • Chardonnay
  • Pinot Noir
  • Gamay

Discovering the wine region of Bugey

Bugey is a wine region in the Ain department of eastern France. The Bugey appellation covers red, white, rosé and Sparkling wines from a range of Grape varieties. The more specific Roussette du Bugey appellation applies to the Rich white wines produced in the region from the Altesse grape. The area covers the Southern limits of the Jura mountain range, which also includes the Jura wine region to the North.

The Rhône River loops around the southern end of Bugey, before flowing south to join the famous Rhône vineyards. Lyon is some 50 kilometres to the west, and the Alpine vineyards of Savoy are directly to the east. Although not technically linked to French wine law, Bugey is often grouped with Savoie. They are close both geographically and in terms of the styles of wine produced.

The top white wines of Maison Angelot

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Maison Angelot

How Maison Angelot wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of country cabbage, papillotes of mackerel or broccoli and blue cheese quiche without pastry.

The best vintages in the white wines of Maison Angelot

  • 2013With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.87/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.65/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Maison Angelot.

  • Chardonnay
  • Altesse

Discover the grape variety: Altesse

The Altesse white grape variety is French in origin, but its ancestors were brought from Cyprus. It then developed in the vineyards of the southeast of the country. The Montagnieu fusette or arbane, as it is also called, buds early in the year. A cottony veil covers the first buds. The involuted blade and the U-shaped petiolar sinus distinguish the adult, three-lobed leaves. During, sometimes for late vengeance, the clusters of medium or small size are winged, compact and cylindrical.the fruits reveal a melting pulp under a film of variable color. The pink-tan colour replaces the early reddish yellow when the berries ripen. If they persist, the berries take on a lilac hue. The vinification promises sparkling, aromatic and elegant sweet whites, or dry whites. Altesse is a grape variety to be carefully maintained against acariosis and erinosis.

The top red wines of Maison Angelot

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Maison Angelot

How Maison Angelot wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or pork such as recipes of vegetable noddles, old-fashioned pork roll or roast pork with milk.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Maison Angelot

On the nose the red wine of Maison Angelot. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit, strawberries or raspberry and sometimes also flavors of non oak, earth or oak.

The best vintages in the red wines of Maison Angelot

  • 2018With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.67/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.66/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.64/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.56/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.55/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Maison Angelot.

  • Gamay
  • Mondeuse Noire
  • Pinot Noir

The word of the wine: Tasting

Sensory analysis of the wine according to a precise procedure and steps, using an appropriate vocabulary.

The top sweet wines of Maison Angelot

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Maison Angelot

How Maison Angelot wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Pinot noir is an important red grape variety in Burgundy and Champagne, and its reputation is well known! Great wines such as the Domaine de la Romanée Conti elaborate their wines from this famous grape variety, and make it a great variety. When properly vinified, pinot noit produces red wines of great finesse, with a wide range of aromas depending on its advancement (fruit, undergrowth, leather). it is also the only red grape variety authorized in Alsace. Pinot Noir is not easily cultivated beyond our borders, although it has enjoyed some success in Oregon, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Maison Angelot

Planning a wine route in the of Bugey? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Maison Angelot.

Discover the grape variety: Mondeuse noire

Cultivated for a very long time in Savoie, it is not the black form of mondeuse blanche and Mondeuse grise is a natural mutation of mondeuse noire. According to Thierry Lacombe (I.N.R.A./Montpellier), the latter is the result of a natural intraspecific crossing between the black tressot and the white mondeuse. Mondeuse grise and Mondeuse noire are both registered in the official catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A1.

News about Maison Angelot and wines from the region

Remembering Clive Coates MW, an authority on Burgundy and Bordeaux

The world of fine wine was saddened this weekend at the news of the passing of the widely loved wine authority Clive Coates MW. Few, if any, Masters of Wine exhibited the spontaneous generosity and amiable disposition that Clive Coates displayed throughout his long and illustrious career. His generosity with his time was remarkable given the breadth of his activities. Personally, I will always be grateful for his encouragement while I was preparing for the MW exam and again when publishing my fi ...

Remembering Clive Coates MW, an authority on Burgundy and Bordeaux

The world of fine wine was saddened this weekend at the news of the passing of the widely loved wine authority Clive Coates MW. Few, if any, Masters of Wine exhibited the spontaneous generosity and amiable disposition that Clive Coates displayed throughout his long and illustrious career. His generosity with his time was remarkable given the breadth of his activities. Personally, I will always be grateful for his encouragement while I was preparing for the MW exam and again when publishing my fi ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘2021 has been the year of all the miseries’

How’s the weather been this year? Awful. ‘La nature m’écoeure’, one of my wine-growing friends posted on Facebook on 8 April, having been out to look at the frost-crippled shoots on his vines that morning: ‘Nature disgusts me’. It takes a lot to make a wine-grower feel that. He wasn’t alone. Jeremiads echo around the northern hemisphere as 2021 closes. It’s been the year of all the miseries. None suffered more horribly than the growers of Germany’s Ahr valley, where floodwaters caused by the fou ...

The word of the wine: Tasting

Sensory analysis of the wine according to a precise procedure and steps, using an appropriate vocabulary.