The Château d'Ourbenac of Cahors of South West

Château d'Ourbenac - Cahors Malbec
Only one wine is currently referenced in this domain
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.1.
It is ranked in the top 389 of the estates of South West.
It is located in Cahors in the region of South West

The Château d'Ourbenac is one of the best wineries to follow in Cahors.. It offers 1 wines for sale in of Cahors to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château d'Ourbenac wines

Looking for the best Château d'Ourbenac wines in Cahors among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château d'Ourbenac 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 d'Ourbenac wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château d'Ourbenac

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château d'Ourbenac

How Château d'Ourbenac wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry such as recipes of couscous without couscous maker, marinated shoulder of lamb or chicken sautéed with cashew nuts (chinese).

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château d'Ourbenac

On the nose the red wine of Château d'Ourbenac. often reveals types of flavors of oaky, blackberry or blueberry and sometimes also flavors of plum, leather or cocoa.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château d'Ourbenac

  • 2010With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2008With an average score of 2.80/5
  • 2006With an average score of 2.80/5
  • 2005With an average score of 2.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château d'Ourbenac.

  • Malbec

Discovering the wine region of Cahors

The wine region of Cahors is located in the region of Haut-Pays of South West of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Château Lagrézette or the Château Lagrézette produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Cahors are Malbec, Merlot and Tannat, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Cahors often reveals types of flavors of cherry, tomatoes or toasty and sometimes also flavors of apples, citrus or tropical fruit.

In the mouth of Cahors is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 308 estates and châteaux in the of Cahors, producing 922 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Cahors go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château d'Ourbenac

Planning a wine route in the of Cahors? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château d'Ourbenac.

Discover the grape variety: Loin de l'œil

This variety is most certainly from the Tarn region, more precisely from Gaillac, and is registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A1. It is not found in any other French wine-growing region and is virtually unknown abroad.

News about Château d'Ourbenac and wines from the region

Andrew Jefford: ‘A wine’s visual cues shout, stamp, whistle and roar’

Disconcerting: I couldn’t forget this bottle for days afterwards. Still can’t. Back in August, wine critic Lin Liu MW (together with her partner Philippe Lejeune of Château de Chambert in Cahors) came to dinner, en route to a short holiday in Provence. One of the bottles Lin brought for us to try together was the 2018 Les Rocheuses, Parcelles No 5 et 6, from Château Le Rey in Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux. It came in a slope-shouldered bottle, not a classic Bordeaux bottle. We tried it with some R ...

Behind LVMH’s Himalayan wine project: the villages of Ao Yun

It’s no easy task to establish a super-premium wine in an entirely new region, particularly when inviting potential retail partners or distributors to the vineyard involves journeying to a distant corner of the Himalayas in the outer reaches of the Yunnan province, southwestern China. For my journey, after four flights from Bordeaux to Shanghai, Chengdu then Shangri-La, it was a four-hour drive up through stunning mountain passes to the foothills (here, that means 2,200m above sea level) of the ...

Jackson Family Wines buys first vineyard in Washington’s Walla Walla Valley

The family-owned company made its first foray into Washington State last year when it began buying grapes from select vineyards throughout the Walla Walla Valley. The winemaking team was impressed by the quality coming out of the region, and it has now pounced on the opportunity to acquire land there. It snapped up 61 acres of an existing 117-acre property in Mill Creek. A local firm called Abeja, founded by Ken and Ginger Roberts, bought the land back in 2000 in a bid to grow world-class Cabern ...

The word of the wine: Aggressive

Said of a wine with excessive, biting and unpleasant acidity.