The Château de la Marjolière of Cahors of South West

Château de la Marjolière
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 174 of the estates of South West.
It is located in Cahors in the region of South West

The Château de la Marjolière is one of the best wineries to follow in Cahors.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Cahors to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château de la Marjolière wines

Looking for the best Château de la Marjolière wines in Cahors among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château de la Marjolière 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 de la Marjolière wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château de la Marjolière

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château de la Marjolière

How Château de la Marjolière wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, game (deer, venison) or spicy food such as recipes of beef stew express, magret stuffed with foie gras or tuscan linguine.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château de la Marjolière

On the nose the red wine of Château de la Marjolière. often reveals types of flavors of earthy, earth or black fruit.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château de la Marjolière

  • 2011With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2008With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.55/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.25/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château de la Marjolière.

  • Malbec
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Cahors

The wine region of Cahors is located in the region of Haut-Pays of South West of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Château Lagrézette or the Château Lagrézette produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Cahors are Malbec, Merlot and Tannat, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Cahors often reveals types of flavors of cherry, tomatoes or toasty and sometimes also flavors of apples, citrus or tropical fruit.

In the mouth of Cahors is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 308 estates and châteaux in the of Cahors, producing 922 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Cahors go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château de la Marjolière

Planning a wine route in the of Cahors? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château de la Marjolière.

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 Château de la Marjolière and wines from the region

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 ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘Arresting and generous, but without vulgarity or excess’

Layers of colour in the sky before me: indigo, peach, salmon. In the rear-view mirror, the gold was catching fire. As I drove down through the lonely, Mistral-chilled vines of Babeau-Bouldoux towards nearby St-Chinian, I was thinking about what Christine Deleuze of Clos Bagatelle had just said. ‘When you came to visit 10 years ago,’ she reminded me, ‘you said we needed to wait another decade for a market breakthrough. Today you’ve said we need to wait another decade or two. So when, exactly, wil ...

Best organic and biodynamic spirits: 10 to try

With climate change becoming an increasingly serious topic for the spirits industry to tackle, so too comes a greater level of awareness amongst consumers that brands should be doing more in relation to the environmental footprints they leave behind globally. Every element, from the cultivation of raw materials, to the composition and distribution of finished glass bottles is now under tighter scrutiny. This year’s Earth Day, a celebration of climate awareness, held on 22 April (founded back in ...

The word of the wine: Heavy

Said of a thick, rustic wine that lacks finesse.