The Château Tour de Bigorre of Bordeaux

Château Tour de Bigorre - Bordeaux
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.4.
It is ranked in the top 6646 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Bordeaux

The Château Tour de Bigorre is one of the best wineries to follow in Bordeaux.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Bordeaux to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Tour de Bigorre wines

Looking for the best Château Tour de Bigorre wines in Bordeaux among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Tour de Bigorre 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 Tour de Bigorre wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château Tour de Bigorre

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Tour de Bigorre

How Château Tour de Bigorre wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of wild boar with honey, veal roast casserole with mushrooms or wild boar stew (without marinade or wine).

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Tour de Bigorre

On the nose the red wine of Château Tour de Bigorre. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, chocolate or red fruit and sometimes also flavors of spices, oak or earth. In the mouth the red wine of Château Tour de Bigorre. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Tour de Bigorre

  • 2017With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.37/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.36/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Tour de Bigorre.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Bordeaux

Bordeaux, in southwestern France, is one of the most famous, prestigious and prolific wine regions in the world. The majority of Bordeaux wines (nearly 90% of the production Volume) are the Dry, medium and Full-bodied red Bordeaux blends for which it is famous. The finest (and most expensive) are the wines of the great châteaux of Haut-Médoc and the right bank appellations of Saint-Émilion and Pomerol. The former focuses (at the highest level) on Cabernet Sauvignon, the latter on Merlot.

The legendary reds are complemented by high-quality white wines made from Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc. These range from dry whites that challenge the best of Burgundy (Pessac-Léognan is particularly renowned) to the Sweet, botrytised nectars of Sauternes. Although Bordeaux is most famous for its wines produced in specific districts or communes, many of its wines fall under other, broader appellations. These include AOC Bordeaux, Bordeaux Supérieur and Crémant de Bordeaux.

The Bordeaux Red appellation represents more than a third of the total production. The official Bordeaux wine region extends 130 kilometres inland from the Atlantic coast. 111,000 hectares of vineyards were registered in 2018, a figure that has remained largely constant over the previous decade. However, the number of winegrowers has consolidated; in 2018 there were around 6,000, compared to 9,000 a decade earlier.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Tour de Bigorre

Planning a wine route in the of Bordeaux? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Tour de Bigorre.

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.

News about Château Tour de Bigorre 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 ...

Château Lassègue names seventh-generation vigneron Nicolas Seillan as its new winemaker

Seillan takes on his new role in addition to his current position as senior vice president of finance, Château Lassègue and Tenuta di Arceno. Château Lassègue said Seillan will continue to work alongside his father, renowned vigneron Pierre Seillan, who said: ‘I am proud that my son Nicolas will continue in the tradition of our family lineage as a seventh-generation vigneron, and bring his passion and respect for the great terroirs and wines of France.’ Born into a family of French vignerons, Ni ...

Bordeaux 2021 en primeur campaign delivered ‘predictable chaos’ and ‘pitiful revenues’

Anecdotal evidence suggests that sales decreased significantly compared to the previous year, with volume and value sales down by as much as 60% in a few cases. In some instances, sales of usually bankable wines crashed to almost zero, according to the merchants that Liv-Ex polled. ‘Yet again, many buyers and collectors have had to ask what purpose the time-consuming event serves when it delivers such pitiful revenue, and who precisely it is for when it offers little compelling value,’ said Liv- ...

The word of the wine: CM

Mention on the label of a champagne. It is a handling cooperative that produces on its own premises and markets under its own brand the wines made from the grapes harvested by its members.