The Château Gilbert is one of the world's great estates. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Limburg to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Château Gilbert wines in Limburg among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Gilbert 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 Château Gilbert wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Château Gilbert wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of veal fillet stroganoff, sauerkraut (with tips so to do!!!) or cassoulet of yesteryear.
The Netherlands is a country in Northern Europe, often referred to as "Holland". The latter is the name of the former county in the western Netherlands where the key cities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague are located.
Holland is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which includes Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten, its overseas island territories in the Caribbean. To complicate matters further, the demonym for the Netherlands is "Dutch".
The country is bordered by Belgium to the South, Germany to the east and the Nordzee (North Sea) to the north and west.
Historically, the Dutch produced very little wine - the conditions were simply too cool and wet. A few pioneers established vineyards in the 1970s, and were generally regarded as eccentrics, both at home and abroad.
But viticulture has become increasingly viable due to Climate change.
The hot summer of 2018 produced the best wines produced to date, with record yields.
Today, the wines are gaining recognition at international wine shows. The most successful estates, such as Apostelhoeve in Limburg (one of the pioneers), are selling their wines rapidly. The sector benefits from a strong demand for cool climate wines.
Planning a wine route in the of Limburg? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Gilbert.
A very ancient table grape, it is mentioned in the Bible. Luigi and Alberto Pirovano of Vaprio d'Adda used it in many of their crosses. - Synonyms: neg(u)elescol, giant of Palestine, white grape of Jerusalem, eparce or eparse, yellow olivette with small berries, grape of Jericho (for all the synonyms of the grape varieties, click here!)
