Winery Terres des TempliersVieille Reserve Banyuls
Natural sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with beef, lamb or mature and hard cheese.
Food and wine pairings with Vieille Reserve Banyuls
Pairings that work perfectly with Vieille Reserve Banyuls
Original food and wine pairings with Vieille Reserve Banyuls
The Vieille Reserve Banyuls of Winery Terres des Templiers matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of fresh sausage, shoulder of lamb on a bed of potatoes or original francesinha (portugal).
Details and technical informations about Winery Terres des Templiers's Vieille Reserve Banyuls.
Discover the grape variety: Touriga franca
Most certainly Portuguese. It is said to be the result of a cross between the mourisco de semente and the touriga nacional, which should not be confused with it. It can be found in Australia, South Africa, the United States (California), etc. and is virtually unknown in France.
Informations about the Winery Terres des Templiers
The Winery Terres des Templiers is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 98 wines for sale in the of Banyuls to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Banyuls
Banyuls wines come from the South-eastern Part of Roussillon, in the south of France, in the lower Pyrenees, a few kilometres from the Spanish border. These naturally Sweet wines are consumed both as an aperitif and as a dessert. They come in a wide range of hues, from GoldenGreen (Banyuls Blanc) to Amber (Banyuls Ambré) to the intense garnet of the standard Banyuls Rouge. Unusually among the natural sweet wines of France, all Banyuls wines are made primarily from Grenache grapes of various colors.
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.
The word of the wine: Chaptalization
The addition of sugar at the time of fermentation of the must, an ancient practice, but theorized by Jean-Antoine Chaptal at the dawn of the 19th century. The sugar is transformed into alcohol and allows the natural degree of the wine to be raised in a weak or cold year, or - more questionably - when the winegrower has a harvest that is too large to obtain good maturity.
