The Château Rousselle of Côtes de Bourg of Bordeaux

Château Rousselle - Chateau Haut-Vigneau Blaye
The winery offers 9 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 4 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Côtes de Bourg in the region of Bordeaux
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The Château Rousselle is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 9 wines for sale in of Côtes de Bourg to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Rousselle wines

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

The top red wines of Château Rousselle

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Rousselle

How Château Rousselle wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of homemade beef stew, veal shank in a pot au feu with star anise or duck and peach brochettes.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Rousselle

On the nose the red wine of Château Rousselle. often reveals types of flavors of blueberry, cocoa or dried fruit and sometimes also flavors of floral, baking spice or spices. In the mouth the red wine of Château Rousselle. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Rousselle

  • 2003With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2001With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2004With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2006With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2011With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.97/5

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

  • Malbec
  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc

Discovering the wine region of Côtes de Bourg

The wine region of Côtes de Bourg is located in the region of Côtes de Bordeaux of Bordeaux of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Roc de Cambes or the Château Tayac produce mainly wines red and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Côtes de Bourg are Merlot, Cabernet-Sauvignon and Cabernet franc, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Côtes de Bourg often reveals types of flavors of oak, sweet tobacco or pineapple and sometimes also flavors of cigar, ripe blackberries or bell pepper.

In the mouth of Côtes de Bourg is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 478 estates and châteaux in the of Côtes de Bourg, producing 830 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Côtes de Bourg go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Rousselle

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

Discover the grape variety: Malbec

Malbec, a high-yielding red grape variety, produces tannic and colourful wines. It is produced in different wine-growing regions and changes its name according to the grape variety. Called Auxerrois in Cahors, Malbec in Bordeaux, it is also known as Côt. 6,000 hectares of the Malbec grape are grown in France (in decline since the 1950s). Malbec is also very successful in Argentina. The country has become the world's leading producer of Malbec and offers wines with great potential.

News about Château Rousselle and wines from the region

Decanter World Wine Awards winners available at Marks & Spencer

Marks & Spencer is no stranger to achieving top scores at the Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA), and to celebrate its results the leading retailer has selected its favourite award-winning wines from this year’s awards, for customers to purchase exclusively on marksandspencer.com. Customers can choose from a carefully selected mix of six delicious winter-warming reds; an irresistible mix of crisp, refreshing, complex white wines from the Old and New World; a mix of both red and white wi ...

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘A wine’s visual cues shout, stamp, whistle and roar’

Disconcerting: I couldn’t forget this bottle for days afterwards. Still can’t. Back in August, wine critic Lin Liu MW (together with her partner Philippe Lejeune of Château de Chambert in Cahors) came to dinner, en route to a short holiday in Provence. One of the bottles Lin brought for us to try together was the 2018 Les Rocheuses, Parcelles No 5 et 6, from Château Le Rey in Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux. It came in a slope-shouldered bottle, not a classic Bordeaux bottle. We tried it with some R ...

The word of the wine: BSA

Brut sans année, is said of non-vintage champagnes. It is the technical name of the first price champagne made from wines of different years. They are most often called Tradition, Carte blanche, Réserve. To be drunk quickly, rather as an aperitif.