Château Bel-AirVieilles Vignes Saint-Croix-du-Mont
Sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with poultry, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish.
The Vieilles Vignes Saint-Croix-du-Mont of the Château Bel-Air is in the top 5 of wines of Entre-deux-Mers.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Vieilles Vignes Saint-Croix-du-Mont of Château Bel-Air in the region of Bordeaux often reveals types of flavors of honey, earth or tropical fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Vieilles Vignes Saint-Croix-du-Mont
Pairings that work perfectly with Vieilles Vignes Saint-Croix-du-Mont
Original food and wine pairings with Vieilles Vignes Saint-Croix-du-Mont
The Vieilles Vignes Saint-Croix-du-Mont of Château Bel-Air matches generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or sweet desserts such as recipes of spaghetti with tuna (real italian recipe), waterzooï of the sea or real chocolate cake.
Details and technical informations about Château Bel-Air's Vieilles Vignes Saint-Croix-du-Mont.
Discover the grape variety: Carla
Intraspecific crossing between the Cardinal and the Alphonse Lavallée obtained in 1958, variety registered in 1989 in the Official Catalogue of table grape varieties list A1.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Vieilles Vignes Saint-Croix-du-Mont from Château Bel-Air are 2010, 2016, 2014, 2015 and 2012.
Informations about the Château Bel-Air
The Château Bel-Air is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 8 wines for sale in the of Entre-deux-Mers to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Entre-deux-Mers
Entre-deux-Mers is a large wine-growing sub-region of the Bordeaux region in southwestern France. Its name literally translates as "between two seas", although the seas in question are actually rivers - the Garonne and the Dordogne, which form the southern and northern boundaries of the region respectively. The Entre-deux-Mers is home to a variety of appellations, producing wines in styles ranging from the Sweet botrytised whites of Cadillac, Loupiac and Sainte-Croix-du-Mont - all close to the northeast bank of the Garonne - to the Dry table wines of Sainte-Foy and Graves de Vayres, closer to the Dordogne. The region stretching along the Garonne from the group of sweet white wine appellations to the area east of the city of Bordeaux is the red wine appellation Côtes de Bordeaux - until 2009 called Premières Côtes de Bordeaux, a title now reserved for sweet whites.
The wine region of Bordeaux
Bordeaux, in southwestern France, is one of the most famous, prestigious and prolific wine regions in the world. The majority of Bordeaux wines (nearly 90% of the production Volume) are the Dry, medium and Full-bodied red Bordeaux blends for which it is famous. The finest (and most expensive) are the wines of the great châteaux of Haut-Médoc and the right bank appellations of Saint-Émilion and Pomerol. The former focuses (at the highest level) on Cabernet Sauvignon, the latter on Merlot.
The word of the wine: Tanin
A natural compound contained in the skin of the grape, the seed or the woody part of the bunch, the stalk. The maceration of red wines allows the extraction of tannins, which give the texture, the solidity and also the mellowness when the tannins are "ripe". The winemaker seeks above all to extract the tannins from the skin, the ripest and most noble. The tannins of the seed or stalk, which are "greener", especially in average years, give the wine hardness and astringency. The wines of Bordeaux (based on Cabernet and Merlot) are full of tannins, those of Burgundy much less so, with Pinot Noir containing little.
