Winery Sainsbury'sGrande Réserve Sauvignon Blanc - Sémillon
White wine
This wine generally goes well with vegetarian, poultry or rich fish (salmon, tuna etc).
Food and wine pairings with Grande Réserve Sauvignon Blanc - Sémillon
Pairings that work perfectly with Grande Réserve Sauvignon Blanc - Sémillon
Original food and wine pairings with Grande Réserve Sauvignon Blanc - Sémillon
The Grande Réserve Sauvignon Blanc - Sémillon of Winery Sainsbury's matches generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of pasta with mussels, quiche with leeks and fresh salmon from flo or bresse chicken with yellow wine and morels.
Details and technical informations about Winery Sainsbury's's Grande Réserve Sauvignon Blanc - Sémillon.
Discover the grape variety: Melon blanc et rouge
Very old Burgundian grape variety. According to published genetic analyses, it is the result of a natural cross between Pinot and Gouais, which are the same parents of Gamay. Melon can be found in Germany, Croatia, Bulgaria, ... in France it is nowadays mostly multiplied in the Loire Valley, registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A1.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Grande Réserve Sauvignon Blanc - Sémillon from Winery Sainsbury's are 2021, 2018, 2020, 2019 and 2016.
Informations about the Winery Sainsbury's
The Winery Sainsbury's is one of wineries to follow in Bergerac.. It offers 316 wines for sale in the of Bergerac to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Bergerac
The wine region of Bergerac is located in the region of Guyenne of South West of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Château Tour des Gendres or the Vignoble des Verdots produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Bergerac are Merlot, Cabernet-Sauvignon and Cabernet franc, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Bergerac often reveals types of flavors of non oak, yeast or black currant and sometimes also flavors of mint, pineapple or cream.
The wine region of South West
The South-West is a large territorial area of France, comprising the administrative regions of Aquitaine, Limousin and Midi-Pyrénées. However, as far as the French wine area is concerned, the South-West region is a little less clear-cut, as it excludes Bordeaux - a wine region so productive that it is de facto an area in its own right. The wines of the South West have a Long and eventful history. The local rivers play a key role, as they were the main trade routes to bring wines from traditional regions such as Cahors, Bergerac, Buzet and Gaillac to their markets.
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The word of the wine: Bâtonnage
A very old technique that has come back into fashion in modern oenology, which consists of shaking the white wine in the barrels at the end of fermentation, or after fermentation, with a stick or a flail, in order to suspend the fine lees composed of yeasts at the end of their activity. This process is sometimes used for red wines.
