The Domaine Richard Leroy is one of the world's great estates. It offers 6 wines for sale in of Centre Loire to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Domaine Richard Leroy wines in Centre Loire among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Domaine Richard Leroy 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 Richard Leroy wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Domaine Richard Leroy wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of mackerel with quick mustard, mushroom, bacon and gruyere quiche or chicken with rice for cookeo robot.
On the nose the white wine of Domaine Richard Leroy. often reveals types of flavors of oaky, tropical or citrus and sometimes also flavors of smoke, apples or minerality. In the mouth the white wine of Domaine Richard Leroy. is a with a nice freshness.
The Centre-Loire sub-region is located in the Loire Valley region, southeast of the Paris Basin. Its surface area is difficult to determine and the vineyards are made up of plots that vary in Size and are isolated, but also of plots of several hundred hectares. On a limestone base, the Centre-Loire has at least four types of soil: the terres blanches, Deep brown calcareous soils, which give the wines firmness, vivacity and fullness; the caillotes, Hard limestone soils, which give the wines pleasure, tenderness in their youth and a characteristic fruitiness; the grillotes, of friable limestone from which the wines take notes of candied fruits and honey; and the chailloux, siliceous with fine and coarse elements (clays, silts and sands, gravels, and pebbles), giving the wines firmness, persistent aromas, a Spicy nuance and a note of gunflint The caillotes and grillottes are shallow, stony soils, which Warm up quickly in the spring and have good rainwater Runoff, resulting in early ripening of the grapes for the production of fine, Soft, fruity wines. The semi-continental climate with microclimatic variations is ideal for the Sauvignon grape variety which gives white wines a rare harmony and perfection, and also ideal for the Pinot Noir which produces little known but no less surprising red wines.
The Centre-Loire region has nine appellations but is particularly well known for its AOC Sancerre, Quincy, Reuilly and Menetou-Salon. These appellations include those from the Auvergne vineyards (Saint-Pourçain, Côte-Roannaise and Côtes-du-Forez).
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Originally from Georgia, it is the main grape variety in the production of white wines, particularly in eastern Georgia. It is also found in Canada, China, the United States, New Zealand, Australia and a large number of Eastern European countries. In France, it is practically unknown, which seems surprising given its qualities.
