The Winery Nicolas Guillet is one of the world's great estates. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Brouilly to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Nicolas Guillet wines in Brouilly among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Nicolas Guillet 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 Nicolas Guillet wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Nicolas Guillet wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of zucchini and goat cheese lasagna, ardéchoise fly or rabbit in white wine (casserole).
Brouilly is an appellation for red wines produced from Vineyards in north-central Beaujolais. The lower slopes of Mont Brouilly and the surrounding countryside contain large plantings of the Gamay Grape. The wines produced here are relatively robust and Full-bodied, in contrast to the light, fresh wines of Beaujolais Nouveau. The wines are fruitier than many of the other Beaujolais crus, with plum and berry flavors overpowering the traditional Floral">floralCharacter of Gamay.
The appellation was officially delimited along with most other Beaujolais crus in the 1930s. While the appellation applies only to red wines, the white varieties Chardonnay, Aligoté and Melon de Bourgogne can account for 15% of the vineyard area. They are also authorised as a minor component of the blend in Brouilly wines. The Brouilly wine area covers six communes around Mont Brouilly, none of which bears the name Brouilly, which is unusual for a Beaujolais cru.
How Winery Nicolas Guillet wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef such as recipes of beef tongue with pickle sauce.
Originally from the Charentes region, it is now endangered. It is still found in isolated stocks, most often in old ugni blanc plantations. This variety is said to be the result of a natural cross between folle blanche and ugni blanc. It is registered in the Official Catalogue of Vine Varieties, list A1. - Synonyms: frontignan des Charentes, aramon blanc by mistake in the Var, gros montils on the island of Oléron, ugni de Montpellier, burger (not to be confused with elbling and gouais blanc which have the same synonym), auba, meslier d'Orléans (not to be confused with meslier saint François) (for all the synonyms of the grape varieties, click here!)
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Petit Meslier blanc is a grape variety that originated in France (Champagne). 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. Petit Meslier blanc can be found in many vineyards: South West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Champagne, Jura, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Loire Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.
