The Winery Mont Gravet is one of the world's great estates. It offers 19 wines for sale in of Gascogne to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Mont Gravet wines in Gascogne among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Mont Gravet 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 Mont Gravet wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Mont Gravet wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of oxtail with seed sauce, fried vegetables with merguez and chipo or oven roasted rabbit with mustard.
On the nose the red wine of Winery Mont Gravet. often reveals types of flavors of butter, blackberry or strawberries and sometimes also flavors of leather, cheese or earth. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Mont Gravet. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
Between the Landes forest, the Garonne and the Pyrenees, the Gascony hillsides cover the Gers dePartment and part of the Landes and Lot-et-Garonne departments. The vineyards occupy the same area as Armagnac, a brandy still produced in the region, but whose volumes have declined in favour of vins de pays (now PGI). Under the influence of a mild oceanic Climate, it is fairly wet in the west, drier in the east, especially in summer. In the west, the subsoil of tawny sands is of marine origin, covered with boulbènes; in the east, it gradually gives way to molasse, a rock resulting from the erosion of the Pyrenees.
The soils are either stony and chalky (peyrusquets) or clayey and Deep (terrefort), retaining water well. The Condom region, the driest, has its own name (Condomois). The main Grape varieties cultivated are white: Colombard and Ugni blanc, the varieties of armagnac. Generally associated, sometimes completed by Sauvignon and Chardonnay, they give lively white wines with an exuberant fruitiness.
How Winery Mont Gravet wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of pasta with ham and tomato, tuna, pepper and tomato quiche or wild asparagus omelette.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Mont Gravet. often reveals types of flavors of green apple, minerality or earth and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, microbio or citrus fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Mont Gravet. is a .
Mainly cultivated in the Languedoc region, carignan originates from Spain. Because of its very resistant branches, it is often called hardwood. Its bunches are quite large. They are compact and winged with a lignified stalk. The berries are spherical in shape and take on a bluish-black colour. Carignan has a total of 25 approved clones, the best known of which are 274, 65 and 9. The carignan buds at the beginning of June and is protected from spring frosts. It does not reach maturity until the third period. Also, this grape variety needs warmth and sunshine. It appreciates dry and not very fertile soils. Carignan vines can live for more than 100 years. Those that are more than 30 years old produce a better wine. This wine is well coloured. It is generous and powerful at the same time. Pepper, cherry, blackberry, banana, raspberry, almond, prune and violet are some of the aromas that this grape variety gives off.
How Winery Mont Gravet wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, mature and hard cheese or pasta such as recipes of beef colombo bourguignon style, burgers with duck confit or tagliatelle with mushrooms.
On the nose the pink wine of Winery Mont Gravet. often reveals types of flavors of strawberries, earth or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, cream or cherry. In the mouth the pink wine of Winery Mont Gravet. is a powerful with a nice freshness.
Removal of the right to the appellation of origin of a wine; it is then marketed as Vin de France.
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Cinsaut noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Provence). 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 large bunches and large grapes. Cinsaut noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Rhône valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Armagnac.
