The Domaine Saint Honorat of Rhône méridional of Rhone Valley

Domaine Saint Honorat
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is ranked in the top 4529 of the estates of Rhone Valley.
It is located in Rhône méridional in the region of Rhone Valley

The Domaine Saint Honorat is one of the best wineries to follow in Rhône méridional.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Rhône méridional to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Domaine Saint Honorat wines

Looking for the best Domaine Saint Honorat wines in Rhône méridional among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Domaine Saint Honorat 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 Domaine Saint Honorat wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Domaine Saint Honorat

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Domaine Saint Honorat

How Domaine Saint Honorat wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of chicken, beef and lamb couscous (morocco), giouvetsi (greek dish) or wild boar leg of 7 hours.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Domaine Saint Honorat

On the nose the red wine of Domaine Saint Honorat. often reveals types of flavors of mint, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, red fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Domaine Saint Honorat. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Domaine Saint Honorat

  • 2014With an average score of 3.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Domaine Saint Honorat.

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Grenache

Discovering the wine region of Rhône méridional

Côtes du Rhône is a regional appellation in the Rhône Valley in eastern France. It applies to red, rosé and white wines, and includes more than 170 villages. The area follows the course of the Rhône southward for 125 miles (200 km) from Saint-Cyr-sur-le-Rhône to Avignon. A small portion of the wines in the appellation are white wines.

However, the classic Côtes du Rhône wine is a blend of Fruity, medium-weight reds made from Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre. The Côtes du Rhône appellation was introduced in November 1937. Its purpose was to give a general title to good quality Rhone wines from the lesser known and less prestigious wine producing areas of the valley. Côtes du Rhône The landscape of the Côtes du Rhône.

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Discover the grape variety: Mavrud

A very old grape variety whose origin is still uncertain, it is thought to have come from Greece, and for others its origin is Bulgarian from the Thrace plain where it is still widely cultivated. It can be found in Romania, Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, etc. Little known in France, it is nevertheless registered in the Official Catalogue of Wine Grape Varieties, list A1.

News about Domaine Saint Honorat and wines from the region

Buying wine en primeur: How to approach it

Colin Hay, a professor of political economy with a special interest in the Place de Bordeaux, considers the different ways of approaching en primeur purchasing, ahead of this year’s 2021 campaign. Buying en primeur wines is a rather strange and, arguably, arcane system of buying and selling in which the consumer purchases the wine typically in the early summer following the vintage even though it will not be bottled and delivered for a further 12-18 months. It is, in effect, a futures mark ...

Walls: Gigondas 2013 and 2014 – time to drink up?

I clearly remember the summer of 2014 in the Rhône. We were there on holiday, staying not far from the hill of Hermitage. It rained incessantly, I got tonsillitis and we had to rush our two-year-old son to hospital with a severed thumb. It wasn’t the best holiday we’ve ever had. That wet summer of 2014 also made an indelible impression on the wines. The 2013 vintage wasn’t without its challenges either – it was certainly unlucky for some. Positioned between the excellent 2012 and 2015, the 2013s ...

Ex-NBA star Tony Parker buys Château Saint Laurent near Avignon

Basketball legend Tony Parker announced today (17 November) that he has officially purchased Château Saint Laurent, which lies just to the east of Avignon in southern France. Financial details weren’t disclosed, but the move marks a new winemaking venture for Parker, a six-time NBA All-Star who retired in 2019 after a glittering career that also included representing France at international level. Tony Parker’s new property near to Avignon. Photo credit: Château Saint Laurent. Picturesque ...

The word of the wine: Wine library

Cellar in which are kept bottles that retrace the history of a domain, a vintage, an exceptional wine, etc., and which constitute a collection. It is also said of a place that offers a very wide choice of wines served by the glass. The oenotheques are more and more widespread in the living rooms opened to the public.