The Château Saint-Christoly of Médoc of Bordeaux

Château Saint-Christoly - Médoc
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 813 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Médoc in the region of Bordeaux
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The Château Saint-Christoly is one of the best wineries to follow in Médoc.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Médoc to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Saint-Christoly wines

Looking for the best Château Saint-Christoly wines in Médoc among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Saint-Christoly 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 Saint-Christoly wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château Saint-Christoly

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Saint-Christoly

How Château Saint-Christoly wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef pot au feu (grandma's style), express couscous in a pressure cooker or rabbit marinated with herbs and mustard.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Saint-Christoly

On the nose the red wine of Château Saint-Christoly. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, chocolate or red fruit and sometimes also flavors of spices, oak or earth. In the mouth the red wine of Château Saint-Christoly. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Saint-Christoly

  • 1997With an average score of 4.60/5
  • 2016With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2005With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Saint-Christoly.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Médoc

Bordeaux's Médoc is an area of coastal lagoons, sand dunes and pine forests located on the 45th parallel. It is also a global wine powerhouse, and home to four of the world's most prestigious wine villages: Pauillac, Margaux, Saint-Estèphe and Saint-Julien. The estates located in these villages produce some of the most expensive bottles in the world. The region has also provided all but one of the châteaux included in the official 1855 Bordeaux wine classification (Haut-Brion).

The Médoc vineyards cover about 16,000 hectares, including the various small appellations. Approximately 5500 hectares of vines are classified for the production of AOC/AOP Médoc wines. Wedged between the Atlantic coast and the wide Gironde estuary, the Médoc is in fact a peninsula. It stretches 80 kilometres (50 miles) to the northwest, from the city of Bordeaux to the Pointe de Grave.

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Discover the grape variety: Tinta da Madeira

Portuguese, more precisely from the island of Madeira where it is still the most cultivated. It can be found in the United States (California), in Spain, etc. In France, it is practically unknown. Its parents are Grenache and Pinot Noir, an intraspecific cross obtained over two hundred years ago. It should be noted that this variety is the father of the egiodola.

News about Château Saint-Christoly and wines from the region

Anthony Barton: tributes paid to Bordeaux wine great

The Barton family announced yesterday (19 January), ‘We have the immense sadness to inform you that our beloved Anthony Barton passed away at the age of 91 years old.’ Known as the ‘gentleman’ of Bordeaux wine and admired for his sense of humour and charisma, Anthony Barton was also widely respected for modernising family estates Léoville Barton and Langoa Barton – the respective 1855 second and third growth châteaux in the St-Julien appellation. Barton was credited, too, with maintaining ...

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 ...

Château Latour 2014 released for first time

Château Latour 2014 was released this morning (15 March), making it the youngest Latour grand vin on the market and the third to be released since the first growth estate left the Bordeaux en primeur system in 2012. Farr Vintners was selling Latour 2014 at £4,950 per 12-bottle case, with six magnums offered at £4,980. Bordeaux Index was offering the wine in six-bottle cases at £2,475 in bond. Analyst group Wine Lister said the wine had been released at €430 per bottle ex-Bordeaux, up 18% on the ...

The word of the wine: Cup (size in)

Specific to the Mediterranean vineyard, this short pruning which opens the stock in the shape of a corolla offers a good resistance to violent winds but does not allow any mechanization of the vine work.

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