The Château Les Grands Sillons of Pomerol of Bordeaux

Château Les Grands Sillons - Cuvée Alhena Pomerol
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.
It is ranked in the top 111 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Pomerol in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Les Grands Sillons is one of the best wineries to follow in Pomerol.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Pomerol to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Les Grands Sillons wines

Looking for the best Château Les Grands Sillons wines in Pomerol among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Les Grands Sillons 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 Les Grands Sillons wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château Les Grands Sillons

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Les Grands Sillons

How Château Les Grands Sillons wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of fillet of beef with morels, chakchouka or stuffed duck or goose neck.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Les Grands Sillons

On the nose the red wine of Château Les Grands Sillons. often reveals types of flavors of earthy, red fruit or leather and sometimes also flavors of non oak, earth or microbio. In the mouth the red wine of Château Les Grands Sillons. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Les Grands Sillons

  • 2015With an average score of 4.22/5
  • 2013With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2010With an average score of 4.06/5
  • 2012With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2009With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.99/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Les Grands Sillons.

  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc

Discovering the wine region of Pomerol

The wine region of Pomerol is located in the region of Libournais of Bordeaux of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Pétrus or the Domaine Le Pin produce mainly wines red and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Pomerol are Merlot, Cabernet franc and Cabernet-Sauvignon, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Pomerol often reveals types of flavors of cherry, flint or white pepper and sometimes also flavors of salt, dried fig or nutty.

In the mouth of Pomerol is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 336 estates and châteaux in the of Pomerol, producing 444 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Pomerol go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison).

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Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

News about Château Les Grands Sillons and wines from the region

‘Exceptional’ Lafleur 2021 released en primeur

Château Lafleur 2021 was released in the Bordeaux en primeur campaign this morning (27 May) at the equivalent of £6,508 (12x75cl in bond), according to Liv-ex. This sought-after Pomerol label, produced from a vineyard of just 4.5 hectares, is often sold in smaller quantities and sometimes only on allocation. UK merchant Justerini & Brooks was offering three-bottle cases of Lafleur 2021 for £1,627 in bond at the time of writing. Decanter’s Georgie Hindle gave Lafleur 2021 97 points, naming it ...

Rare Haut-Brion helps Prince Robert of Luxembourg cellar auction ‘smash’ estimate

All 818 lots were sold in the auction, which saw Prince Robert of Luxembourg, chairman and CEO of Château Haut-Brion owner Domaine Clarence Dillon, open up his personal cellar to raise funds for the PolG Foundation. Featuring 4,200 bottles and covering Bordeaux wine royalty spanning more than a century of vintages, Sotheby’s said the auction ‘smashed’ its pre-sale high estimate of around $4m.  Two 4.5-litre Jeroboams of Haut-Brion, one from the 1926 vintage and the other from 1 ...

Lafite Rothschild 2021 released en primeur

Lafite Rothschild 2021 was released at €470 per bottle ex-Bordeaux this morning (7 June) and was being offered en primeur by UK merchants at the equivalent of £5,808 per 12-bottle case in bond, said Liv-ex, a global marketplace for the trade. Decanter’s Georgie Hindle rated Lafite 2021 at 97 points, a strong performance in one of the more challenging Bordeaux vintages of recent years. ‘Surely a contender for wine of the vintage, certainly on the Left Bank. Vibrant and explosive,’ Hindle wrote. L ...

The word of the wine: Overmaturation

When the grapes reach maturity, the skin becomes permeable and progressively loses water, which causes a concentration phenomenon inside the berry. This is called over-ripening or passerillage.