The Château Mauras of Sauternes of Bordeaux

Château Mauras
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 131 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Sauternes in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Mauras is one of the best wineries to follow in Sauternes.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Sauternes to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Mauras wines

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

The top sweet wines of Château Mauras

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Château Mauras

How Château Mauras wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of fruity desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of apple pie or scallops with auvergne blue cheese sauce.

Organoleptic analysis of sweet wines of Château Mauras

On the nose the sweet wine of Château Mauras. often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, peach or vanilla and sometimes also flavors of apricot, orange or honey. In the mouth the sweet wine of Château Mauras. is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Château Mauras

  • 2011With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2005With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2007With an average score of 3.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Château Mauras.

  • Sémillon

Discovering the wine region of Sauternes

Sauternes, 65 km South of Bordeaux, is a Village renowned for its high quality Sweet wines. Although some wineries produce Dry wines, they sell them under other appellations than Sauternes, which is specific to sweet wines. The village is surrounded on all sides by vineyards, the best of which produce some of the most prestigious, long-lasting and expensive dessert wines in the world. A half bottle of premium, aged Sauternes from a good Vintage can sell for over $1,000.

Classic Sauternes has a DeepGoldenColor (darker than most other dessert wines), which turns a deep amber color with bottle age. Its aromas include flower and stone fruit, with a hint of honeysuckle - the hallmark of botrytized wines. The best wines balance sweetness with acidity, concentration with freshness and power with elegance. Sauternes wines are primarily made from the Sémillon grape, which accounts for about eight out of every ten vines in the local vineyard.

Sauvignon Blanc accounts for most of the remaining vineyard and is the dominant grape in a small handful of Sauternes wines. Semillon forms a broad, well-structured base with aromas of beeswax and apricot, while Sauvignon Blanc contributes its characteristic herbal aromas and enough acidity to keep the resulting wine fresh rather than mouthwatering. These two varieties (sometimes supplemented by a small amount of Muscadelle and Sauvignon Gris) have become the preferred varieties here, not only because they are also used to make dry white Bordeaux wines, but also because of their susceptibility to a particular type of fungus, Botrytis cinerea (often just botrytis). Apart from yeast, without which the grape juice cannot ferment into wine, one would not expect a fungus to play a key role in winemaking.

The top white wines of Château Mauras

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Château Mauras

How Château Mauras wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of capellini with prosciutto, magic cake cheese quiche or coconut chicken à la bellevilloise.

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

  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discover the grape variety: Sémillon

Sémillon blanc 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. Note that this grape variety can also be used for the elaboration of eaux de vie. This variety of vine is characterized by large bunches of grapes, and grapes of large size. Sémillon Blanc can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Armagnac, Provence & Corsica, Loire Valley, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Mauras

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

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon blanc

Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.

News about Château Mauras and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Flavours

There are generally four so-called fundamental flavours: acidity, bitterness, sweetness and saltiness. The first three are considered to be the building blocks of the structure of wines. They are perceived by the taste buds that cover the surface of the tongue.