Château Sisqueille - Rivesaltes (Doux Naturel)

Château SisqueilleRivesaltes (Doux Naturel)

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(Average of the reviews for all vintages combined and from several consumer review sources)
Tasters consider this wine to be one of the best in the world.
The Rivesaltes (Doux Naturel) of Château Sisqueille is a natural sweet wine from the region of Rivesaltes of Languedoc-Roussillon.
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.
The Rivesaltes (Doux Naturel) of the Château Sisqueille is in the top 5 of wines of Rivesaltes.

Wine flavors and olphactive analysis

Wine with oak taste

caramel

Wine with earth taste

honey, smoke

Wine with spices taste

cinnamon

On the nose the Rivesaltes (Doux Naturel) of Château Sisqueille in the region of Languedoc-Roussillon often reveals types of flavors of smoke, caramel or raisin and sometimes also flavors of honey, non oak or earth.

Food and wine pairings with Rivesaltes (Doux Naturel)

Pairings that work perfectly with Rivesaltes (Doux Naturel)

Original food and wine pairings with Rivesaltes (Doux Naturel)

The Rivesaltes (Doux Naturel) of Château Sisqueille matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of navarin of the sea da gigi or market garden rice salad.

Details and technical informations about Château Sisqueille's Rivesaltes (Doux Naturel).

Grape varieties
Region/Great wine region
Great wine region
Country
Style of wine
Alcohol
16°
Allergens
Contains sulfites

Discover the grape variety: Picolit noir

A very old grape variety, which almost disappeared, cultivated for a very long time in the north-east of Italy, more precisely in the region of Friuli bordering with Aurelia and Slovenia. It can be found in Italy, but also in Spain, ... in France it is completely unknown. Note that it is not related to the white picolit.

Last vintages of this wine

Rivesaltes (Doux Naturel) - 1946
In the top 5 of of Rivesaltes wines
Average rating: 4.411110
Rivesaltes (Doux Naturel) - 1945
In the top 5 of of Rivesaltes wines
Average rating: 4.711110.5
Rivesaltes (Doux Naturel) - 1944
In the top 5 of of Rivesaltes wines
Average rating: 4.511110.5
Rivesaltes (Doux Naturel) - 1942
In the top 5 of of Rivesaltes wines
Average rating: 4.311110
Rivesaltes (Doux Naturel) - 1941
In the top 5 of of Rivesaltes wines
Average rating: 4.611110.5
Rivesaltes (Doux Naturel) - 1940
In the top 5 of of Rivesaltes wines
Average rating: 4.611110.5
Rivesaltes (Doux Naturel) - 1936
In the top 5 of of Rivesaltes wines
Average rating: 4.511110.5

The best vintages of Rivesaltes (Doux Naturel) from Château Sisqueille are 1945, 1941, 1940, 1944 and 1936.

Informations about the Château Sisqueille

The winery offers 2 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 4.5.
It is in the top 3 of the best estates in the region
It is located in Rivesaltes in the region of Languedoc-Roussillon

The Château Sisqueille is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 2 wines for sale in the of Rivesaltes to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Languedoc-Roussillon
In the top 900 of of France wines
In the top 3 of of Rivesaltes wines
In the top 150 of natural sweet wines
In the top 5000 wines of the world

The wine region of Rivesaltes

Rivesaltes is an appellation for the historic Sweet wines of eastern Roussillon, in the DeepSouth of France. The natural sweet wines produced in this region have been revered since at least the 14th century. The technique used to make them is one of many techniques used for sweet wines. Unlike botrytized wines or ice wines, natural sweet wines are made by Mutage, a process that involves stopping the Fermentation of the must while a high level of natural sweetness remains.


The wine region of Languedoc-Roussillon

Languedoc (formerly Coteaux du Languedoc) is a key appellation used in the Languedoc-Roussillon wine region of southern France. It covers Dry table wines of all three colors (red, white and rosé) from the entire region, but leaves Sweet and Sparkling wines to other more specialized appellations. About 75% of all Languedoc wines are red, with the remaining 25% split roughly down the middle between whites and rosés. The appellation covers most of the Languedoc region and almost a third of all the vineyards in France.

News related to this wine

The Rully appellation investigated through its geology and geography

The Bourgogne Wine Board (BIVB) invites you to enjoy this video in which Jean-Pierre Renard, Expert Instructor at the Ecole des Vins de Bourgogne, explains the topographical and geological characteristics of the Rully appellation. Here the vineyard is planted on different hills which have very different gelogicial characteristics. It partly explains the great diversity in the expression of the Rully wines. This video is taken from the “Rendez-vous avec les vins de Bourgogne” program (February 20 ...

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Vergisson

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The Mâcon plus appellation seen by Théo et Hugo Merlin

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The word of the wine: Spicy

Said of a wine whose taste and aromas are reminiscent of spices.

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