The Winery Pierre Cotton of Côte de Brouilly of Beaujolais

Winery Pierre Cotton - Beaujolais
The winery offers 7 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.
It is ranked in the top 1 of the estates of Beaujolais.
It is located in Côte de Brouilly in the region of Beaujolais

The Winery Pierre Cotton is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 7 wines for sale in of Côte de Brouilly to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Pierre Cotton wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Pierre Cotton

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

How Winery Pierre Cotton wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of goat cheese and spinach lasagne, calf's head with sauce ravigote or traditional welsh dark beer.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Pierre Cotton

On the nose the red wine of Winery Pierre Cotton. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, savory or blackberry and sometimes also flavors of forest floor, jam or red cherry. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Pierre Cotton. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Pierre Cotton

  • 2018With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.95/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.86/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.86/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.40/5

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

  • Gamay

Discovering the wine region of Côte de Brouilly

The Côte de Beaujolais/brouilly">Brouilly is one of the 10 crus appellations of the Beaujolais region. It covers the slopes of the dormant volcano of Mont Brouilly in Central Beaujolais. The area is entirely surrounded by the vineyards of the much larger Brouilly appellation, but it is home to a significantly different style of wine, made from the Gamay Grape. Côte de Brouilly wines are concentrated and Elegant, with Floral">floral characters, and are less earthy than their Brouilly counterparts.

The appellation covers only red wines. However, legislation allows a small amount of white grapes in addition to Gamay. The wine growers can use Chardonnay, Aligoté or Melon de Bourgogne. The Côte de Brouilly appellation covers one of the smallest areas of all the Beaujolais crus, and is also one of the most southerly.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Pierre Cotton

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Pierre Cotton

How Winery Pierre Cotton wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef such as recipes of navarin of the sea da gigi.

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery Pierre Cotton.

  • Gamay

Discover the grape variety: Noiret

A complex interspecific cross between NY65.0467.08 (NY33277 x chancellor) obtained in 1973 by Bruce Reisch and Thomas Henick Kling of Cornell University at the Geneva/New York Experimental Viticultural Station (United States). It can be found in Canada, Poland, ... in France it is unknown.

The top pink wines of Winery Pierre Cotton

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

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

The word of the wine: Basic wine

Dry, still wine intended for the production of sparkling wines (champagne, crémants, etc.). The basic wines undergo a second fermentation in the bottle for the production of carbon dioxide, and therefore of bubbles.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Pierre Cotton

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Discover the grape variety: Oberlin noir

Interspecific crossing between riparia Millardet and gamay obtained by Philip Christian Oberlin (1831-1915) who also created in 1897 the Oberlin Viticultural Institute in Colmar (Haut Rhin). This direct-producing hybrid was widely multiplied in the northeast region of France, from Alsace to Burgundy, also in the Loire Valley and in the Centre where our photographs were taken. Today, Oberlin noir is practically no longer cultivated, but a few vines exist here and there, producing very pleasant, albeit atypical, wines. It is nevertheless registered in the Official Catalogue of Vine Varieties, list A1. - Synonymy: 595 Oberlin (for all the synonyms of the grape varieties, click here!).

News about Winery Pierre Cotton and wines from the region

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Burns Night: Wines to match with haggis

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The word of the wine: Basic wine

Dry, still wine intended for the production of sparkling wines (champagne, crémants, etc.). The basic wines undergo a second fermentation in the bottle for the production of carbon dioxide, and therefore of bubbles.