Winery Raoul HenriCuvée d'Excellence Côte de Beaune Villages
Red wine
This wine generally goes well with poultry, beef or veal.
Food and wine pairings with Cuvée d'Excellence Côte de Beaune Villages
Pairings that work perfectly with Cuvée d'Excellence Côte de Beaune Villages
Original food and wine pairings with Cuvée d'Excellence Côte de Beaune Villages
The Cuvée d'Excellence Côte de Beaune Villages of Winery Raoul Henri matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of stuffed beef rolls, ardéchoise fly or duck breast and roasted peaches.
Details and technical informations about Winery Raoul Henri's Cuvée d'Excellence Côte de Beaune Villages.
Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir
Elegant reds, light in colour with silky tannins, showing strawberry, cherry and raspberry aromas, evolving to forest floor, mushroom and spice with age. Fresh acidity, delicate finish. Star of the Côte d'Or (Romanée-Conti, Chambertin, Volnay), pillar of Champagne (Blanc de Noirs) and signature of Oregon, Central Otago and Sonoma Coast. An early-ripening Burgundian variety, one of the world's greatest.
Informations about the Winery Raoul Henri
The Winery Raoul Henri is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 77 wines for sale in the of Côte de Beaune Villages to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Côte de Beaune Villages
Regional red AOC of the Côte de Beaune (1937) grouping 14 village communes (excluding Aloxe-Corton, Beaune, Pommard, Volnay): Pinot Noir signature exclusive red king — expressive bouquet with signature notes of red fruits (cherry, raspberry, redcurrant), spice and floral hint evolving into undergrowth, fine tannins and balanced structure, suppler northward, sturdier southward. AOC, brown clay-limestone, red gravels, tempered oceanic climate, good ageing.
The wine region of Burgundy
Absolute reference for great terroir wines: opulent, mineral Chardonnay in whites (chiselled Chablis, buttery Meursault, majestic Montrachet), fine and silky Pinot Noir in reds (full-bodied Gevrey, structured Pommard, delicate Volnay). Exceptional age-worthy wines with complex notes - red fruits, undergrowth, butter, hazelnut. Some lively Aligoté and light Gamay (Mâconnais). 29,500 ha, 84 tiered AOCs (Régionale, Village, 1er Cru, Grand Cru), 1,247 UNESCO Climats.
The word of the wine: Performance
Quantity of grapes harvested per hectare. In AOC, the average yield is limited on the proposal of the appellation syndicate, validated by the Inao. The use of high-performance plant material (especially clones) and better control of vine diseases have increased yields. This is not without consequences on the quality of the wines (dilution) and on the state of the market (too much wine). We must not over-simplify: low yields are not synonymous with quality, and it is often in years with generous harvests that we find the greatest vintages (1982 and 1986 in Bordeaux, 1996 in Champagne, 1990 and 2005 in Burgundy...).
