The Château Portail Rouge is one of the best wineries to follow in Médoc.. It offers 1 wines for sale in of Médoc to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Château Portail Rouge wines in Médoc among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Portail Rouge 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 Château Portail Rouge wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Château Portail Rouge wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef tongue with vegetables, lamb tagine with quince or rabbit with mustard in foil.
Bordeaux's Médoc is an area of coastal lagoons, sand dunes and pine forests located on the 45th parallel. It is also a global wine powerhouse, and home to four of the world's most prestigious wine villages: Pauillac, Margaux, Saint-Estèphe and Saint-Julien. The estates located in these villages produce some of the most expensive bottles in the world. The region has also provided all but one of the châteaux included in the official 1855 Bordeaux wine classification (Haut-Brion).
The Médoc vineyards cover about 16,000 hectares, including the various small appellations. Approximately 5500 hectares of vines are classified for the production of AOC/AOP Médoc wines. Wedged between the Atlantic coast and the wide Gironde estuary, the Médoc is in fact a peninsula. It stretches 80 kilometres (50 miles) to the northwest, from the city of Bordeaux to the Pointe de Grave.
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This grape variety was formerly cultivated in the Jura and is said to have made the reputation of the Château-Châlon appellation. Today, it is no longer present in the vineyard.
