Winery Pic JoanBanyuls Rouge
Natural sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.
Food and wine pairings with Banyuls Rouge
Pairings that work perfectly with Banyuls Rouge
Original food and wine pairings with Banyuls Rouge
The Banyuls Rouge of Winery Pic Joan matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of boeuf en daube or savoyard tarts.
Details and technical informations about Winery Pic Joan's Banyuls Rouge.
Discover the grape variety: Datal
Intraspecific crossing obtained in 1956 between the Beirut date palm and the Alexandria muscatel. This variety is not widely cultivated in France, although it is registered in the Official Catalogue of table grape varieties, list A1. It can be found in South Africa, Portugal, etc.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Banyuls Rouge from Winery Pic Joan are 2016, 0
Informations about the Winery Pic Joan
The Winery Pic Joan is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 7 wines for sale in the of Banyuls to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Banyuls
Banyuls wines come from the South-eastern Part of Roussillon, in the south of France, in the lower Pyrenees, a few kilometres from the Spanish border. These naturally Sweet wines are consumed both as an aperitif and as a dessert. They come in a wide range of hues, from GoldenGreen (Banyuls Blanc) to Amber (Banyuls Ambré) to the intense garnet of the standard Banyuls Rouge. Unusually among the natural sweet wines of France, all Banyuls wines are made primarily from Grenache grapes of various colors.
The wine region of Languedoc-Roussillon
Languedoc (formerly Coteaux du Languedoc) is a key appellation used in the Languedoc-Roussillon wine region of southern France. It covers Dry table wines of all three colors (red, white and rosé) from the entire region, but leaves Sweet and Sparkling wines to other more specialized appellations. About 75% of all Languedoc wines are red, with the remaining 25% split roughly down the middle between whites and rosés. The appellation covers most of the Languedoc region and almost a third of all the vineyards in France.
The word of the wine: Disorder
Said of a wine that is not clear due to the presence of colloidal suspensions that prevent the passage of light.
