The Château Roufite of Premières Côtes de Blaye of Bordeaux

Château Roufite - Blaye Côtes De Bordeaux
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.2.
It is ranked in the top 56 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Premières Côtes de Blaye in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Roufite is one of the world's great estates. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Premières Côtes de Blaye to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Roufite wines

Looking for the best Château Roufite wines in Premières Côtes de Blaye among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Roufite 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 Château Roufite wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château Roufite

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Roufite

How Château Roufite wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of chickpeas spanish style, marinated veal skewers with herbs or oven roasted rabbit with mustard.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Roufite

In the mouth the red wine of Château Roufite. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Roufite

  • 2000With an average score of 3.00/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Roufite.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Premières Côtes de Blaye

The wine region of Premières Côtes de Blaye is located in the region of Côtes de Bordeaux of Bordeaux of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Château Marquis de Vauban or the Château Sainte-Luce Bellevue produce mainly wines red, white and other. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Premières Côtes de Blaye are Merlot, Cabernet-Sauvignon and Cabernet franc, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Premières Côtes de Blaye often reveals types of flavors of leather, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, black fruit or vanilla.

In the mouth of Premières Côtes de Blaye is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 237 estates and châteaux in the of Premières Côtes de Blaye, producing 293 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Premières Côtes de Blaye go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Roufite

Planning a wine route in the of Premières Côtes de Blaye? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Roufite.

Discover the grape variety: Limberger

Without much certainty, its origin would be German. It is a very old variety that has been cultivated for a long time in Germany, Austria, Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, etc. Today, the Limberger is less and less multiplied. It is a direct descendant of the white gouais.

News about Château Roufite and wines from the region

Bordeaux 2021 harvest was 20% below 10-year average following spring frosts

The Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux (CIVB) revealed that the Bordeaux 2021 vintage was 20% below the region’s 10-year average. Bud burst came earlier than usual amid very sunny weather in March, and many young buds were then destroyed by severe frosts, which hammered the region in early April. It means that producers will have just 503 million bottles from the 2021 vintage, which is significantly below average. The region’s sweet whites, including Sauternes, suffered the sharpest y ...

Rethinking the wine bottle for the future

There’s been a focus on making wine production less energy intensive as well as environmentally friendly in order to address climate change. The efforts continue but, as is the case for electric cars where it’s the battery technology that needs innovating, it’s in wine bottles where we’re seeing rapid change. It comes in a two-pronged attack to reduce energy use in manufacturing and then an even bigger emphasis on reducing bottle weight for shipping to reduce fuel usage and thus CO2 production. ...

Best in Show: The top 50 wines of DWWA 2022

The 0.27% of entries awarded Best in Show at this year’s Decanter World Wine Awards reflect the inspiring world of wine and quest for quality among winemakers globally, with 50 wines expressing the best of their categories. An all-time record for wines tasted at the world’s largest wine competition, it’s quite possible that Decanter World Wine Awards 2022 marks the largest-ever wine competition to be held in history. And of the record-breaking 18,244 wines tasted, just 50 were ...

The word of the wine: PDO

Protected Designation of Origin - equivalent to the term "controlled designation of origin" in European regulations.