The Chateau Puisseguin La Rigodrie of Puisseguin-Saint-Émilion of Bordeaux

Chateau Puisseguin La Rigodrie - Cuvée Elégance Puisseguin-Saint-Émilion
The winery offers 5 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is ranked in the top 40 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Puisseguin-Saint-Émilion in the region of Bordeaux

The Chateau Puisseguin La Rigodrie is one of the world's great estates. It offers 5 wines for sale in of Puisseguin-Saint-Émilion to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Chateau Puisseguin La Rigodrie wines

Looking for the best Chateau Puisseguin La Rigodrie wines in Puisseguin-Saint-Émilion among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Chateau Puisseguin La Rigodrie 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 Chateau Puisseguin La Rigodrie wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Chateau Puisseguin La Rigodrie

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Chateau Puisseguin La Rigodrie

How Chateau Puisseguin La Rigodrie wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of braised beef with guinness, eggplant moussaka with lamb or rabbit italian style.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Chateau Puisseguin La Rigodrie

On the nose the red wine of Chateau Puisseguin La Rigodrie. often reveals types of flavors of earthy, earth or black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Chateau Puisseguin La Rigodrie. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Chateau Puisseguin La Rigodrie

  • 2006With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.64/5
  • 2008With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.59/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Chateau Puisseguin La Rigodrie.

  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Malbec

Discovering the wine region of Puisseguin-Saint-Émilion

The wine region of Puisseguin-Saint-Émilion is located in the region of Saint-Émilion of Bordeaux of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Les Hauts Du Bourdonnais or the Domaine La Mauriane produce mainly wines red and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Puisseguin-Saint-Émilion are Merlot, Cabernet-Sauvignon and Cabernet franc, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Puisseguin-Saint-Émilion often reveals types of flavors of oaky, anise or mint and sometimes also flavors of cinnamon, black olive or violet.

In the mouth of Puisseguin-Saint-Émilion is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 175 estates and châteaux in the of Puisseguin-Saint-Émilion, producing 277 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Puisseguin-Saint-Émilion go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Chateau Puisseguin La Rigodrie

Planning a wine route in the of Puisseguin-Saint-Émilion? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Chateau Puisseguin La Rigodrie.

Discover the grape variety: Malbec

Malbec, a high-yielding red grape variety, produces tannic and colourful wines. It is produced in different wine-growing regions and changes its name according to the grape variety. Called Auxerrois in Cahors, Malbec in Bordeaux, it is also known as Côt. 6,000 hectares of the Malbec grape are grown in France (in decline since the 1950s). Malbec is also very successful in Argentina. The country has become the world's leading producer of Malbec and offers wines with great potential.

News about Chateau Puisseguin La Rigodrie and wines from the region

Andrew Jefford: ‘Telling stories about terroir will lead us astray’

A domaine’s long history hoists its inanimate wines into life; biography brings meaning to the simple sensual pleasure of tasting a grower’s efforts. It’s important, though, to know what we are doing when we tell stories. And to know what to tell them about. Winemakers take the messy chaos of natural processes and add discipline, giving shape and direction to produce a stable and enticing wine. This was never nature’s intent. The storyteller takes a messy chaos of random events, either imagined ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘A wine’s visual cues shout, stamp, whistle and roar’

Disconcerting: I couldn’t forget this bottle for days afterwards. Still can’t. Back in August, wine critic Lin Liu MW (together with her partner Philippe Lejeune of Château de Chambert in Cahors) came to dinner, en route to a short holiday in Provence. One of the bottles Lin brought for us to try together was the 2018 Les Rocheuses, Parcelles No 5 et 6, from Château Le Rey in Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux. It came in a slope-shouldered bottle, not a classic Bordeaux bottle. We tried it with some R ...

Batailley 2021 release kick-starts Bordeaux en primeur

Château Batailley 2021 was released en primeur this week at around €26.5 per bottle ex-Bordeaux, level with the debut price of the 2020-vintage release. Batailley 2021 was being offered by international merchants at £330 per 12 bottles in bond, said Liv-ex, which described it as ‘one of the best value [Batailley] wines on the market today’. Some analysts and merchants suggested the Pauillac estate had set a relatively positive tone for the Bordeaux en primeur campaign over the next f ...

The word of the wine: Merithalle

Botanical term for the interval between two nodes or between two leaf insertions on a branch (see internode).