Château Pierre-BiseQuarts de Chaume Grand Cru
Sweet wine
In the mouth this sweet wine is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.
This wine generally goes well with fruity desserts, blue cheese or vegetarian.
The Quarts de Chaume Grand Cru of the Château Pierre-Bise is in the top 20 of wines of Quarts de Chaume.
Taste structure of the Quarts de Chaume Grand Cru from the Château Pierre-Bise
Light | Bold | |
Dry | Sweet | |
Soft | Acidic |
In the mouth the Quarts de Chaume Grand Cru of Château Pierre-Bise in the region of Loire Valley is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Quarts de Chaume Grand Cru of Château Pierre-Bise in the region of Loire Valley often reveals types of flavors of peach, apricot or ginger and sometimes also flavors of caramel, mint or honey.
Food and wine pairings with Quarts de Chaume Grand Cru
Pairings that work perfectly with Quarts de Chaume Grand Cru
Original food and wine pairings with Quarts de Chaume Grand Cru
The Quarts de Chaume Grand Cru of Château Pierre-Bise matches generally quite well with dishes of mature and hard cheese, fruity desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of beet greens and black sesame seeds pie, apple pie or cream of chicory soup with roquefort in the thermomix.
Details and technical informations about Château Pierre-Bise's Quarts de Chaume Grand Cru.
Discover the grape variety: Chenin blanc
Chameleon whites with taut acidity, ranging from mineral dry (Savennières, Vouvray sec) to off-dry and medium-sweet (Vouvray, Montlouis), sumptuous botrytised sweet (Quarts-de-Chaume, Bonnezeaux, Coteaux du Layon) and brilliant sparkling (Crémant de Loire, Vouvray brut). Aromas of quince, apple, honey, white flowers, beeswax and flint. An Anjou variety, also star of South Africa's Western Cape.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Quarts de Chaume Grand Cru from Château Pierre-Bise are 2018, 2015, 2013, 0 and 2011.
Informations about the Château Pierre-Bise
The Château Pierre-Bise is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 29 wines for sale in the of Quarts de Chaume to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Quarts de Chaume
The only Grand Cru of the Loire Valley (2011, ~40 ha in Anjou-Layon): 100% Chenin as extraordinarily complex, multi-decade sweet wines. Golden to old-gold robe, aromas of candied fruit, honey, quince and saffron notes. Successive manual tries of botrytised bunches (Botrytis cinerea), minimum 298 g/L sugar before fermentation, maximum yield 20 hl/ha. South-facing slope above morning mists of the Layon river — exceptional botrytis on draining Brioverian schists.
The wine region of Loire Valley
Kingdom of lively, dry whites and fine sparklers. Mineral, taut Sauvignon Blanc (Sancerre, Pouilly-Fumé) with citrus and gunflint notes. Multiform Chenin Blanc (Vouvray, Savennières, Layon): straight dry, floral off-dry or noble sweet honey-quince. Saline, iodised Muscadet (Melon B.
The word of the wine: Pommadé
Said of a wine that is unbalanced, pasty, syrupy, and whose excessive sugar content gives an impression of heaviness.
