The Winery Tant Alice of Brouilly of Beaujolais

Winery Tant Alice - Pisse Vieille Brouilly
Only one wine is currently referenced in this domain
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 51 of the estates of Beaujolais.
It is located in Brouilly in the region of Beaujolais

The Winery Tant Alice is one of the world's great estates. It offers 1 wines for sale in of Brouilly to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Tant Alice wines

Looking for the best Winery Tant Alice wines in Brouilly among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Tant Alice 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 Winery Tant Alice wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Tant Alice

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Tant Alice

How Winery Tant Alice wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of pasta with crispy parma ham, veal cutlets with cream sauce or tripe in the style of caen.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Tant Alice

  • 2015With an average score of 4.30/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Tant Alice.

  • Gamay

Discovering the wine region of Brouilly

Brouilly is an appellation for red wines produced from Vineyards in north-central Beaujolais. The lower slopes of Mont Brouilly and the surrounding countryside contain large plantings of the Gamay Grape. The wines produced here are relatively robust and Full-bodied, in contrast to the light, fresh wines of Beaujolais Nouveau. The wines are fruitier than many of the other Beaujolais crus, with plum and berry flavors overpowering the traditional Floral">floralCharacter of Gamay.

The appellation was officially delimited along with most other Beaujolais crus in the 1930s. While the appellation applies only to red wines, the white varieties Chardonnay, Aligoté and Melon de Bourgogne can account for 15% of the vineyard area. They are also authorised as a minor component of the blend in Brouilly wines. The Brouilly wine area covers six communes around Mont Brouilly, none of which bears the name Brouilly, which is unusual for a Beaujolais cru.

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