The Maison d'Orsay is one of the best wineries to follow in Pays d'Oc.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Pays d'Oc to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Maison d'Orsay wines in Pays d'Oc among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Maison d'Orsay 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 d'Orsay wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Maison d'Orsay wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of chicken bonne femme, quebec style barbecued salmon or quiche without eggs.
On the nose the sparkling wine of Maison d'Orsay. often reveals types of flavors of earth, microbio or tree fruit.
Pays d'Oc is the PGI for red, white and rosé wines that are produced over a wide area of the southern coast of France. The PGI catchment area corresponds roughly to the Languedoc-roussillon">Languedoc-Roussillon wine region, one of the largest wine regions in France. The area covers all wines that are not produced under the strict laws that govern AOC-level appellations in the regions: among them, Corbières, Minervois and the Languedoc appellation itself. The Pays d'Oc PGI is arguably the most important in France, producing the majority of the country's PGI wines.
Five separate departments fall under the PGI (Hérault, Aude, Gard, Pyrénées-Orientales and six communes in southern Lozère), which is delimited by administrative rather than geographical boundaries. The name therefore covers a wide variety of terrain, from the mountain ranges of the southern Massif Central to the coastal plains of the Camargue crossed by rivers. Vineyards jostle for position in the Garrigue landscape. The Pays d'Oc has a MediterraneanClimate with hot, Dry summers and mild winters.
How Maison d'Orsay wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of express seafood spaghetti, quiche with bacon and gruyère cheese or fricadella.
On the nose the white wine of Maison d'Orsay. often reveals types of flavors of oaky, microbio or oak and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit.
This variety is the result of an intraspecific cross between Pinot Noir and Pirovano 1 (Chasselas rose x Hamburg Muscat), obtained in 1939 by Heinrich Birk at the Geinsenheim Research Station (Germany). It can be found not only in Germany but also in Great Britain, Belgium, Italy, the Czech Republic, Brazil, South Africa, Australia, the United States, Canada, etc. In France, it is almost unknown.
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A cross obtained in 1958 between Dabouki and Hamburg Muscat, it has been listed in the Official Catalogue of Vine Varieties, list A1, since 1981. Little cultivated in France, it can be found in Portugal where a few plantations have been carried out.
