Winery Piétri GéraudCuvée Joseph-Géraud Banyuls
Natural sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with beef, mature and hard cheese or spicy food.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Cuvée Joseph-Géraud Banyuls of Winery Piétri Géraud in the region of Languedoc-Roussillon often reveals types of flavors of plum, raisin or prune and sometimes also flavors of non oak, earth or microbio.
Food and wine pairings with Cuvée Joseph-Géraud Banyuls
Pairings that work perfectly with Cuvée Joseph-Géraud Banyuls
Original food and wine pairings with Cuvée Joseph-Géraud Banyuls
The Cuvée Joseph-Géraud Banyuls of Winery Piétri Géraud matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, spicy food or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of beer goulash, chicken breast with curry and mushrooms or pork in a salty-sweet way.
Details and technical informations about Winery Piétri Géraud's Cuvée Joseph-Géraud Banyuls.
Discover the grape variety: Helfensteiner
Intraspecific crossing obtained in Germany in 1931 by August Karl Herold (1902-1973) between early pinot noir and frankenthal. This variety can still be found in Germany, the United Kingdom, etc. In France, it is practically unknown.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Cuvée Joseph-Géraud Banyuls from Winery Piétri Géraud are 2009, 2006, 2005, 2010 and 2008.
Informations about the Winery Piétri Géraud
The Winery Piétri Géraud is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 23 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.
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The word of the wine: Rafle (taste of)
A taste considered a defect, characterized by an unpleasant astringency and bitterness, brought by the stalk during the vinification process. In order to avoid it, destemming before vinification is a common practice.
