The Winery Pierre Gentizon of Neuchâtel

Winery Pierre Gentizon - Apollon
The winery offers 18 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is ranked in the top 422 of the estates of Neuchâtel.
It is located in Neuchâtel

The Winery Pierre Gentizon is one of the best wineries to follow in Neuchâtel.. It offers 18 wines for sale in of Neuchâtel to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Pierre Gentizon wines

Looking for the best Winery Pierre Gentizon wines in Neuchâtel among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Pierre Gentizon 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 Pierre Gentizon wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Pierre Gentizon

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Pierre Gentizon

How Winery Pierre Gentizon wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of blanquette of monkfish with small vegetables, veal with cream and mushrooms or conejo al ajillo (spain).

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Pierre Gentizon

  • 2016With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Pierre Gentizon.

  • Gamaret
  • Gamay
  • Garanoir
  • Mara
  • Pinot Noir

Discovering the wine region of Neuchâtel

Neuchatel is one of the smaller wine regions of Switzerland, located in the French-speaking western half of the country, North of the much larger Vaud area. Much like its neighbour, Chasselas dominates white plantings here, however Pinot Noir is more significant here, as is the reputation of Neuchatel's rosés. The region is generally referred to as the 'Three Lakes' as the region - and the four AOCs within it - are found on the relatively low-lying, flatter land, centered around the lakes of Morat, Bienne and Neuchatel. The region also covers three neighbouring Swiss cantons.

AOPs Cheyres and Vully occupy 105 (260 acres) of the canton of Fribourg (on the shores of Lac de Neuchatel and Morat, respectively), while the Lac de Bienne, or Bielersee (for the generally Swiss-German speaking people of Bern) denomination takes up 222 hectares (550 acres) of the canton of Bern on the lake of Bienne. The lion's share of the AOP, around 605 hectares (1,500 acres), is in the canton of Neuchatel, mainly on the north shore of the eponymous lake, in the Neuchatel AOP. Overall, this puts the wine region on what the Swiss refer to as "la plaine" - a relatively flat area of land from Geneva through Bern to ZuRich, sandwiched to the north by the Jura and to the South by the Alps. The Vineyards here are on relatively low-lying, flatter land, centered around the lakes.

Soils here are light and stony, generally Jurassic and rich in limestone. However, areas with more clay and vigour can also be found. The Climate is moderated significantly by the presence of the lakes, which prevent summer temperatures from rising dramatically and also dampen the effects of frost and snow in winter. Neuchatel has about-average rainfall of around 1,000mm (39 inches) per year.

The top white wines of Winery Pierre Gentizon

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Pierre Gentizon

How Winery Pierre Gentizon wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of blue cord, tuna catalan style or goat cheese and bacon quiche.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Pierre Gentizon.

  • Chardonnay

Discover the grape variety: Mara

Intraspecific cross between gamay noir and reichensteiner obtained in 1970 by André Jacquinet at the Agroscope Changins-Wädenswil research station (Switzerland). From these same parents he also obtained the gamaret and the garanoir. It should not be confused with the Romanian direct producer hybrid, also black, resulting from an interspecific cross between 12 303 Seyve-Villard and ozana. Mara is mainly cultivated in Switzerland and is virtually unknown in France.

The top pink wines of Winery Pierre Gentizon

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Pierre Gentizon

How Winery Pierre Gentizon wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The word of the wine: Piqué

Altered wine characterized by a vinegar smell.

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Planning a wine route in the of Neuchâtel? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Pierre Gentizon.

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Pinot noir is an important red grape variety in Burgundy and Champagne, and its reputation is well known! Great wines such as the Domaine de la Romanée Conti elaborate their wines from this famous grape variety, and make it a great variety. When properly vinified, pinot noit produces red wines of great finesse, with a wide range of aromas depending on its advancement (fruit, undergrowth, leather). it is also the only red grape variety authorized in Alsace. Pinot Noir is not easily cultivated beyond our borders, although it has enjoyed some success in Oregon, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

News about Winery Pierre Gentizon and wines from the region

Strong online sales boost Christmas trading at Berry Bros & Rudd

Berry Bros & Rudd has reported a 13% year-on-year increase in online sales for the two-month period ending 31 December 2021 (internal data). Moreover, online sales soared 107% versus the same period in 2019, according to the fine wine and spirits merchant. Average online order value increased by 19% year-on-year compared to 2020, with Berry Bros & Rudd’s online fine wine exchange [BBX] reporting a 25% increase. The strong online results helped sales across the business increase by 2% yea ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘2021 has been the year of all the miseries’

How’s the weather been this year? Awful. ‘La nature m’écoeure’, one of my wine-growing friends posted on Facebook on 8 April, having been out to look at the frost-crippled shoots on his vines that morning: ‘Nature disgusts me’. It takes a lot to make a wine-grower feel that. He wasn’t alone. Jeremiads echo around the northern hemisphere as 2021 closes. It’s been the year of all the miseries. None suffered more horribly than the growers of Germany’s Ahr valley, where floodwaters caused by the fou ...

‘Goliath’ 27-litre Sine Qua Non wine uncorked for charity

A ‘Goliath’ 27-litre bottle of Sine Qua Non’s highly prized The Inaugural Syrah from the 2003 vintage provided the centrepiece for a charity event organised by The Legacy Cellar Foundation. Robert M. Parker Jr, the famous wine critic who retired from The Wine Advocate in 2019, donated the ‘unicorn’ bottle in order to help raise funds for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, which is marking its 60th anniversary. Held at a private residence in Bel Air on 14 May, 60 guests paid ...

The word of the wine: Piqué

Altered wine characterized by a vinegar smell.

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