The Winery Perissac is one of the best wineries to follow in Médoc.. It offers 8 wines for sale in of Médoc to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Perissac wines in Médoc among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Perissac 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 Perissac wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Perissac wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or poultry such as recipes of spaghetti neapolitan style, mussels with beer or couscous without couscous maker.
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.
How Winery Perissac wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of grandma's chicken casserole, quiche with leeks and fresh salmon from flo or home-made coq au vin.
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.
How Winery Perissac wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of roasted fillet of beef with parsley, lebanese lamb meatball or currywurst.
The mouth is the third stage of wine tasting after the eye and nose. In the mouth, the taster identifies the aromas through the retronasal route, the flavours and the texture. It is in the mouth that the overall balance of the wine is apprehended.
How Winery Perissac wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of monkfish tail with white butter, veal chop normandy style or rabbit good woman.
On the nose the red wine of Winery Perissac. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Perissac. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
Malbec, a high-yielding red grape variety, produces tannic and colourful wines. It is produced in different wine-growing regions and changes its name according to the grape variety. Called Auxerrois in Cahors, Malbec in Bordeaux, it is also known as Côt. 6,000 hectares of the Malbec grape are grown in France (in decline since the 1950s). Malbec is also very successful in Argentina. The country has become the world's leading producer of Malbec and offers wines with great potential.
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Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.
