Château Roques MauriacCuvée Hélène Bordeaux Supérieur
Red wine
This wine is a blend of 5 varietals which are the Cabernet franc, the Cabernet-Sauvignon, the Malbec, the Petit Verdot and the Merlot.
In the mouth this red wine is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
This wine generally goes well with poultry, beef or veal.
Taste structure of the Cuvée Hélène Bordeaux Supérieur from the Château Roques Mauriac
Light | Bold | |
Smooth | Tannic | |
Dry | Sweet | |
Soft | Acidic |
In the mouth the Cuvée Hélène Bordeaux Supérieur of Château Roques Mauriac in the region of Bordeaux is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Cuvée Hélène Bordeaux Supérieur of Château Roques Mauriac in the region of Bordeaux often reveals types of flavors of oaky, vanilla or chocolate and sometimes also flavors of cheese, non oak or microbio.
Food and wine pairings with Cuvée Hélène Bordeaux Supérieur
Pairings that work perfectly with Cuvée Hélène Bordeaux Supérieur
Original food and wine pairings with Cuvée Hélène Bordeaux Supérieur
The Cuvée Hélène Bordeaux Supérieur of Château Roques Mauriac matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of melt-in-the-mouth pork tenderloin casserole, veal tagine with preserved lemons and saffron or quinoa patties with courgettes and fresh goat cheese.
Details and technical informations about Château Roques Mauriac's Cuvée Hélène Bordeaux Supérieur.
Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc
Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Cuvée Hélène Bordeaux Supérieur from Château Roques Mauriac are 2018, 2017, 2016, 2011 and 2015.
Informations about the Château Roques Mauriac
The Château Roques Mauriac is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 10 wines for sale in the of Bordeaux Supérieur to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Bordeaux Supérieur
Bordeaux Supérieur is an appellation level applied to wines produced in the Generic area of the Bordeaux PDO. They are produced from the classic Bordeaux Grape varieties. The reds are, as the name suggests, intended to be a slightly "superior" form of the standard Bordeaux AOC wines. They are therefore heavily based on Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, with smaller amounts of Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot and Malbec.
The wine region of Bordeaux
Bordeaux, in southwestern France, is one of the most famous, prestigious and prolific wine regions in the world. The majority of Bordeaux wines (nearly 90% of the production Volume) are the Dry, medium and Full-bodied red Bordeaux blends for which it is famous. The finest (and most expensive) are the wines of the great châteaux of Haut-Médoc and the right bank appellations of Saint-Émilion and Pomerol. The former focuses (at the highest level) on Cabernet Sauvignon, the latter on Merlot.
The word of the wine: Baco 22A
A white grape variety resulting from the hybridization of the folle blanche and the noah. It is the only hybrid to remain authorized in a French appellation vineyard, that of Armagnac, where it thrives in particular on the tawny sands of Bas-Armagnac. When distilled, its wine produces round, smooth and aromatic eaux-de-vie with hints of ripe fruit.
