The Winery Menard of Cognac

Winery Menard - Pineau des Charentes Blanc
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 25 of the estates of Cognac.
It is located in Cognac

The Winery Menard is one of the world's great estates. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Cognac to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Menard wines

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

The top sweet wines of Winery Menard

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Menard

How Winery Menard wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or sweet desserts such as recipes of pasta with tuna and cream, fried rice with shrimp and chicken or real chocolate cake.

Organoleptic analysis of sweet wines of Winery Menard

On the nose the sweet wine of Winery Menard. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, oak or dried fruit.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Winery Menard

  • 2008With an average score of 3.90/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Winery Menard.

  • Sémillon
  • Ugni blanc
  • Montils
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Cognac

Cognac is the most famous brandy in the world, more famous even than its OldGascon cousin, Armagnac. It comes from the Charentais, a vast region of western France immediately North of Bordeaux, and takes its name from the historic town of Cognac - the long-standing epicentre of local brandy production. In French, cognac is technically classified as an eau-de-vie de vin - a category that covers all spirits distilled from wine. The Full and official name of the brandy is actually "Eau-de-Vie de Cognac" or "Eau-de-Vie des Charentes", but the Short version has become so common that these longer versions almost never appear on labels.

Although little known, the Charentais is one of the largest vineyards in France. It is made up of two administrative departments (Charente and Charente-Maritime), each of which produces more wine per year than the whole of Burgundy. While some of this wine is basic table wine (sold as IGP / Vin de Pays or Vin de France), the vast majority is produced specifically for distillation into Cognac. Legally protected and regulated since May 1936, Cognac was among the very first AOC titles confirmed when the INAO was created in the mid 1930s.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Menard

Planning a wine route in the of Cognac? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Menard.

Discover the grape variety: Montils

Montils blanc is a grape variety that originated in France (Charente). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. It should be noted that this grape variety can also be used for the elaboration of eaux de vie. This variety of vine is characterized by bunches of medium size, and grapes of medium size. Montils blanc can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

News about Winery Menard and wines from the region

Decanter magazine latest issue: May 2022

Inside the May 2022 issue of Decanter Magazine: FEATURES: The new ‘Super-Italians’ Michaela Morris, Richard Baudains, Aldo Fiordelli and Susan Hulme MW highlight 12 innovative wines opening the door to Italy’s future Campania: 20 top Fiano & Greco dry whites selected by James Button Sicily: sustainability driving change Filippo Bartolotta Brunello di Montalcino latest releases: 2017 and Riserva 2016 Michaela Morris Regional profile: Lugana Richard Baudains California: the Italian influence C ...

The Last Drop Distillers unveils trio of new releases

The launch of the 2022 Collection takes the total number of Last Drop releases to 27 since the company was founded by drinks industry veterans Tom Jago and James Espey in 2008. Tom’s daughter Rebecca Jago is now the company’s MD. This year’s releases include The Last Drop’s first Japanese whisky: a blended malt that includes whisky from the fabled Hanyu distillery, taken from the beginning and end of its brief lifespan (1980-2000), as well as malts from other unidentified Japanese distilleries. ...

Wartime Cognac

The French shipment of 600 bottles of De Haartman & Co Cognac – plus 15 boxes of Bénédictine liqueur – is believed to have been destined for Tsar Nicholas II, but was intercepted in the Baltic Sea and sunk by a German submarine in May 1917. Now Cognac house Birkedal Hartmann has refilled 300 of the recovered bottles with Cognac dating from the early 1900s, using packaging identical to the original, and is selling them for €9,000 each. The wreck of the SS Kyros was discovered by Swedish explo ...

The word of the wine: Breeding

It can last for several years. The bottles are stacked in the cellars and waited for the light and heat. The yeasts gradually give the wine compounds that enrich it. A long maturation is a guarantee of quality.

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