Winery Piétri GéraudHors d'Age Banyuls
Natural sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with beef and spicy food.
Food and wine pairings with Hors d'Age Banyuls
Pairings that work perfectly with Hors d'Age Banyuls
Original food and wine pairings with Hors d'Age Banyuls
The Hors d'Age Banyuls of Winery Piétri Géraud matches generally quite well with dishes of mature and hard cheese, blue cheese or aperitif such as recipes of ground steak in a seed coat, endive salad with walnuts and blue cheese or beetroot chips.
Details and technical informations about Winery Piétri Géraud's Hors d'Age Banyuls.
Discover the grape variety: Emerald seedless
Cross between the emperor and the Pirovano 75 or sultana moscata obtained in the United States by Professor Harold P. Olmo of the University of Davis (California). It can be found in Australia, Spain, Portugal, United States, ... almost unknown in France. It should not be confused with the emerald riesling also obtained by Harold P. Olmo and the black emerald seedless which as its name indicates is black.
Informations about the Winery Piétri Géraud
The Winery Piétri Géraud is one of of the world's great 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.
The word of the wine: Gutedel
See chasselas.
