The Nicolas Pointeau - Le Domaine de La Sablière of Loire Valley

Nicolas Pointeau - Le Domaine de La Sablière
The winery offers 11 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 4600 of the estates of Loire Valley.
It is located in Loire Valley
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The Nicolas Pointeau - Le Domaine de La Sablière is one of the best wineries to follow in Vallée de la Loire.. It offers 11 wines for sale in of Loire Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Nicolas Pointeau - Le Domaine de La Sablière wines

Looking for the best Nicolas Pointeau - Le Domaine de La Sablière wines in Loire Valley among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Nicolas Pointeau - Le Domaine de La Sablière 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 Nicolas Pointeau - Le Domaine de La Sablière wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Nicolas Pointeau - Le Domaine de La Sablière

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Nicolas Pointeau - Le Domaine de La Sablière

How Nicolas Pointeau - Le Domaine de La Sablière wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef with onions chinese style, quiche with mixed vegetables or duck and peach brochettes.

The best vintages in the red wines of Nicolas Pointeau - Le Domaine de La Sablière

  • 2018With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.68/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.62/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Nicolas Pointeau - Le Domaine de La Sablière.

  • Cabernet Franc

Discovering the wine region of Loire Valley

The Loire Valley is a key wine region in western France. It follows the course of the Loire River on its Long journey through the heart of France, from the inland hills of the Auvergne to the plains of the French Atlantic coast near Nantes (Muscadet country). Important in terms of quantity and quality, the region produces large quantities (about 4 million h/l each year) of everyday wines, as well as some of France's greatest wines. Diversity is another of the region's major assets; the styles of wine produced here range from the light, tangy Muscadet to the Sweet, honeyed Bonnezeaux, the Sparkling whites of Vouvray and the juicy, Tannic reds of Chinon and Saumur.

It's quite telling that this brief overview of the region's wines doesn't even mention the Loire Valley's two most famous wines - Sancerre and Pouilly-Fume. White wines are clearly the strong point of the Loire Valley and represent the vast majority of production. A significant proportion of these are produced under PGI appellations, most commonly the IGP Loire (formerly Vin de Pays du Jardin de la France), which covers the whole region. The main white Grape varieties used for the production of white wines in the Loire Valley are Sauvignon Blanc, Chenin Blanc, Melon de Bourgogne and, more popular than the traditional, Chardonnay.

The top pink wines of Nicolas Pointeau - Le Domaine de La Sablière

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Nicolas Pointeau - Le Domaine de La Sablière

How Nicolas Pointeau - Le Domaine de La Sablière wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

Discover the grape variety: Chenin blanc

It most certainly originates from the Anjou region and is registered in the official catalogue of wine grape varieties on the A1 list. It can also be found in South Africa, Australia, Argentina, Chile, the United States (California), New Zealand, etc. It is said to be a descendant of Savagnin and to have sauvignonasse as its second parent (Jean-Michel Boursiquot 2019). On the other hand, Chenin blanc is the half-brother of verdelho and sauvignon blanc and is the father of colombard.

The top white wines of Nicolas Pointeau - Le Domaine de La Sablière

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Nicolas Pointeau - Le Domaine de La Sablière

How Nicolas Pointeau - Le Domaine de La Sablière wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of tuna with tomatoes in the oven, vegan leek and tofu quiche or genuine chicken tagine olive and lemon confit tagine with argan oil.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Nicolas Pointeau - Le Domaine de La Sablière

In the mouth the white wine of Nicolas Pointeau - Le Domaine de La Sablière. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Nicolas Pointeau - Le Domaine de La Sablière

  • 2017With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.70/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Nicolas Pointeau - Le Domaine de La Sablière.

  • Chenin Blanc

The word of the wine: Bitter

Normal for certain young red wines rich in tannin, bitterness is in other cases a defect due to a bacterial disease.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Nicolas Pointeau - Le Domaine de La Sablière

Planning a wine route in the of Loire Valley? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Nicolas Pointeau - Le Domaine de La Sablière.

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.

News about Nicolas Pointeau - Le Domaine de La Sablière and wines from the region

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

Família Torres establishes new base in Galicia

Torres is best known for producing wines across Spanish regions including Catalunya, Rioja and Ribera del Duero. It also has an international presence with Miguel Torres in Chile and Marimar in Sonoma, California, but for more than a decade it has been producing wines in Galicia too. This aspect of its portfolio started with the purchase of a 6ha vineyard in the Salnés subregion, producing the upmarket wine Blanco Granito based on Rías Baixas’ star variety, Albariño. The wine is made from a uniq ...

The rise of California Cabernet Franc plus 20 top wines worth seeking out

In the wake of the second destructive wave of the phylloxera bug in California in the 1980s and 1990s, Cabernet Sauvignon rose to such prominence and dominance (especially in Napa Valley) that I, like most people, assumed it must now be the most expensive grape variety in the state. Wrong. That would be Cabernet Franc. Top 20 California Cabernet Franc wines Slowly, steadily and quietly, Cabernet Sauvignon’s father has displaced its son* as the priciest grape to buy and the grape that is generati ...

The word of the wine: Bitter

Normal for certain young red wines rich in tannin, bitterness is in other cases a defect due to a bacterial disease.

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