Winery PremiusExigence Sauternes
Sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with fruity desserts and blue cheese.
Food and wine pairings with Exigence Sauternes
Pairings that work perfectly with Exigence Sauternes
Original food and wine pairings with Exigence Sauternes
The Exigence Sauternes of Winery Premius matches generally quite well with dishes of fruity desserts or blue cheese such as recipes of the coughing cat's apple crumble or cheese ravioli on a bed of spinach.
Details and technical informations about Winery Premius's Exigence Sauternes.
Discover the grape variety: Scheurebe
Aromatic, structured whites with lively acidity and a round mouth, featuring intense aromas of pink grapefruit, blackcurrant, passion fruit, white flowers and muscat notes. Made as aromatic dry wines (Trocken), off-dry (Kabinett, Spätlese) and especially sumptuous botrytised sweet wines (Auslese, Beerenauslese, Trockenbeerenauslese). Grown in Germany (Rheinhessen, Palatinate) and Austria. Created in 1916 by Georg Scheu in Alzey, a Riesling × Bukettrebe cross.
Informations about the Winery Premius
The Winery Premius is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 16 wines for sale in the of Sauternes to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Sauternes
Iconic Bordeaux AOC for noble sweet wines, left bank of the Garonne. Golden whites with signature notes of honey, candied apricot, exotic fruit, orange peel, saffron and a finish tightened by chiselled acidity, opulent yet nervy palate — a great age-worthy wine of emotion. Botrytised Semillon dominates (Ciron 'noble rot') concentrating sugars, Sauvignon Blanc adds vivacity, Muscadelle perfume. ~1,416 ha across 5 villages.
The wine region of Bordeaux
World-renowned age-worthy reds, led by round Merlot (plum, black fruit) or firm Cabernet Sauvignon (blackcurrant, cedar, graphite), blended with Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot for tannic structure. Structured Médoc and Graves, velvety Saint-Émilion and Pomerol. Also crisp dry whites (Sauvignon/Sémillon) and opulent sweet Sauternes with honey and candied fruit. A 110,000 ha Gironde vineyard, 65 appellations, cradle of the 1855 classified growths.
The word of the wine: Anthocyanins
Phenolic compounds present in the skin of grapes that give colour to red wines during maceration.
