The Domaine Prieure Saint Sixte of Rhône méridional of Rhone Valley

Domaine Prieure Saint Sixte
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 8718 of the estates of Rhone Valley.
It is located in Rhône méridional in the region of Rhone Valley

The Domaine Prieure Saint Sixte is one of the best wineries to follow in Rhône méridional.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Rhône méridional to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Domaine Prieure Saint Sixte wines

Looking for the best Domaine Prieure Saint Sixte wines in Rhône méridional among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Domaine Prieure Saint Sixte 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 Domaine Prieure Saint Sixte wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Domaine Prieure Saint Sixte

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Domaine Prieure Saint Sixte

How Domaine Prieure Saint Sixte wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of melt-in-the-mouth pork tenderloin casserole, lamb tagine with peppers and artichoke bottoms or confit sausages.

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Domaine Prieure Saint Sixte.

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Grenache

Discovering the wine region of Rhône méridional

Côtes du Rhône is a regional appellation in the Rhône Valley in eastern France. It applies to red, rosé and white wines, and includes more than 170 villages. The area follows the course of the Rhône southward for 125 miles (200 km) from Saint-Cyr-sur-le-Rhône to Avignon. A small portion of the wines in the appellation are white wines.

However, the classic Côtes du Rhône wine is a blend of Fruity, medium-weight reds made from Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre. The Côtes du Rhône appellation was introduced in November 1937. Its purpose was to give a general title to good quality Rhone wines from the lesser known and less prestigious wine producing areas of the valley. Côtes du Rhône The landscape of the Côtes du Rhône.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Domaine Prieure Saint Sixte

Planning a wine route in the of Rhône méridional? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Domaine Prieure Saint Sixte.

Discover the grape variety: Ferradou

Ferradou noir is a grape variety that originated in . It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. Ferradou noir can be found in the vineyards of the South West.

News about Domaine Prieure Saint Sixte and wines from the region

Decanter’s Regional Editors pick out their top wines for Decanter Fine Wine Encounter NYC

In the first part of this series, see the wines that the Decanter editorial team is most excited about tasting at the Decanter Fine Wine Encounter NYC on Saturday 18th June 2022. Amy Wislocki – Decanter Magazine Editor Cape Landing Blackwood Cabernet Sauvignon, Margaret River 2019 At the end of every year at Decanter, we organise a ‘Wines of the Year‘ tasting. We ask our key contributors and editorial staff to pick out the wines that most impressed them during the year just gon ...

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

Walls: Tasting Hermitage 2001 20 years on

In 2001, George W. Bush was sworn in as the 43rd President of the United States. Meanwhile in the UK, Tony Blair led the Labour Party to its second landslide victory. A lot can change over the course of 20 years. According to many Rhône winemakers and wine collectors, this is how long a bottle of Hermitage should lay undisturbed until you open it. Is it really worth the wait? I recently tasted 11 Hermitage 2001s – seven red, two white, two sweet – to test the 20 year hypothesis and see how these ...

The word of the wine: Anthocyanins

Phenolic compounds present in the skin of grapes that give colour to red wines during maceration.