The Winery Pavillon La Tourelle of Médoc of Bordeaux

Winery Pavillon La Tourelle
The winery offers 5 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.4.
This estate is part of the Producta.
It is ranked in the top 947 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Médoc in the region of Bordeaux

The Winery Pavillon La Tourelle is one of the best wineries to follow in Médoc.. It offers 5 wines for sale in of Médoc to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Pavillon La Tourelle wines

Looking for the best Winery Pavillon La Tourelle wines in Médoc among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Pavillon La Tourelle 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 Pavillon La Tourelle wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Pavillon La Tourelle

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Pavillon La Tourelle

How Winery Pavillon La Tourelle wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef tenderloin wellington, roast pork with onions and honey or duck legs with cider and small onions.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Pavillon La Tourelle

On the nose the red wine of Winery Pavillon La Tourelle. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, non oak or black fruit and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, spices or oak. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Pavillon La Tourelle. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Pavillon La Tourelle

  • 2013With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.44/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.36/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.21/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.20/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Pavillon La Tourelle.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot
  • Malbec
  • Petit Verdot

Discovering the wine region of Médoc

Bordeaux's Médoc is an area of coastal lagoons, sand dunes and pine forests located on the 45th parallel. It is also a global wine powerhouse, and home to four of the world's most prestigious wine villages: Pauillac, Margaux, Saint-Estèphe and Saint-Julien. The estates located in these villages produce some of the most expensive bottles in the world. The region has also provided all but one of the châteaux included in the official 1855 Bordeaux wine classification (Haut-Brion).

The Médoc vineyards cover about 16,000 hectares, including the various small appellations. Approximately 5500 hectares of vines are classified for the production of AOC/AOP Médoc wines. Wedged between the Atlantic coast and the wide Gironde estuary, the Médoc is in fact a peninsula. It stretches 80 kilometres (50 miles) to the northwest, from the city of Bordeaux to the Pointe de Grave.

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Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). 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. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

News about Winery Pavillon La Tourelle and wines from the region

Bordeaux ‘Act for Change’ symposium

The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C  in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...

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 ...

Bordeaux 2021 harvest was 20% below 10-year average following spring frosts

The Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux (CIVB) revealed that the Bordeaux 2021 vintage was 20% below the region’s 10-year average. Bud burst came earlier than usual amid very sunny weather in March, and many young buds were then destroyed by severe frosts, which hammered the region in early April. It means that producers will have just 503 million bottles from the 2021 vintage, which is significantly below average. The region’s sweet whites, including Sauternes, suffered the sharpest y ...

The word of the wine: VDN

Natural sweet wine. Wine obtained by mutage of the must during fermentation by adding over-finished alcohol at 96 °, produced in the vineyards of Roussillon, Languedoc, Rhone Valley and Corsica.