The Domaine Quintin Frères of Haute Loire of Loire Valley

Domaine Quintin Frères - Chapeau Bas
The winery offers 9 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 812 of the estates of Loire Valley.
It is located in Haute Loire in the region of Loire Valley

The Domaine Quintin Frères is one of the best wineries to follow in Haute Loire.. It offers 9 wines for sale in of Haute Loire to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Domaine Quintin Frères wines

Looking for the best Domaine Quintin Frères wines in Haute Loire among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Domaine Quintin Frères 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 Quintin Frères wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Domaine Quintin Frères

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Domaine Quintin Frères

How Domaine Quintin Frères wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or vegetarian such as recipes of grilled tuna with mediterranean marinade, pasta with mussels or leek, goat cheese and bacon quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Domaine Quintin Frères

On the nose the white wine of Domaine Quintin Frères. often reveals types of flavors of grapefruit, citrus or minerality and sometimes also flavors of gooseberry, earth or vegetal.

The best vintages in the white wines of Domaine Quintin Frères

  • 2011With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.70/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Domaine Quintin Frères.

  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discovering the wine region of Haute Loire

Haute Loire is an unofficial name for the wine-producing communes of the Loire Valley located upstream (South and east) from Touraine. It includes two of the Loire's most famous appellations - Sancerre and Pouilly-Fume - along with a number of lesser known appellations such as Orléans, Valencay, Quincy and Côtes du Forez. The concept of a "Haute Loire" sub-region is necessary because the appellations that make it up are not grouped by an administrative or historical region; their main commonality is their proximity to the Loire River. Most other French wine regions correspond closely to an administrative region or department (e.

g. Alsace, Burgundy, Champagne, Provence). There is indeed a department of the Loire, but it is hundreds of miles upstream from the heart of the Loire Vineyard. Ironically, it is home to two of the least known appellations in the Loire Valley: Côte Roannaise and Côtes du Forez.

Like nowhere else on the Loire, these two regions specialize in red and rosé wines made from Gamay. Their style of wine and their sandy, granitic soils mean that they have more in common with Beaujolais (just 50 km to the east) than with any other Loire appellation.

The top red wines of Domaine Quintin Frères

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Domaine Quintin Frères

How Domaine Quintin Frères wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of filet mignon with prunes and white wine, chicken pie or rabbit with hunter's sauce.

The best vintages in the red wines of Domaine Quintin Frères

  • 2015With an average score of 3.70/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Domaine Quintin Frères.

  • Pinot Noir
  • Gamay

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon blanc

Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Domaine Quintin Frères

Planning a wine route in the of Haute Loire? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Domaine Quintin Frères.

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Pinot noir is an important red grape variety in Burgundy and Champagne, and its reputation is well known! Great wines such as the Domaine de la Romanée Conti elaborate their wines from this famous grape variety, and make it a great variety. When properly vinified, pinot noit produces red wines of great finesse, with a wide range of aromas depending on its advancement (fruit, undergrowth, leather). it is also the only red grape variety authorized in Alsace. Pinot Noir is not easily cultivated beyond our borders, although it has enjoyed some success in Oregon, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

News about Domaine Quintin Frères and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Old vines

There are no specific regulations governing the term "vieilles vignes". After 20 to 25 years, the yields stabilize and tend to decrease, the vines are deeply rooted, and the grapes that come from them give richer, more concentrated, more sappy wines, expressing with more nuance the characteristics of their terroir. It is possible to find plots of vines that claim to be a century old.