The Winery Vallée Mercier of Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil of Loire Valley

Winery Vallée Mercier - L'Ile de Ma Mère Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil Rouge
The winery offers 8 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is ranked in the top 25 of the estates of Loire Valley.
It is located in Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil in the region of Loire Valley

The Winery Vallée Mercier is one of the world's great estates. It offers 8 wines for sale in of Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Vallée Mercier wines

Looking for the best Winery Vallée Mercier wines in Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Vallée Mercier 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 Vallée Mercier wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Vallée Mercier

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Vallée Mercier

How Winery Vallée Mercier wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of spit-turned boar leg (oven) with "automatic watering"., english breakfast or my grandmother's rabbit stew.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Vallée Mercier

On the nose the red wine of Winery Vallée Mercier. often reveals types of flavors of leather, pepper or earth and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or non oak.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Vallée Mercier

  • 2019With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.83/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Vallée Mercier.

  • Cabernet Franc

Discovering the wine region of Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil

The wine region of Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil is located in the region of Touraine of Loire Valley of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Yannick Amirault or the Domaine Sebastien David produce mainly wines red, pink and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil are Cabernet franc, Pinot noir and Cabernet-Sauvignon, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil often reveals types of flavors of cherry, stone or grass and sometimes also flavors of game, cheese or graphite.

In the mouth of Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil is a powerful with a nice freshness. We currently count 189 estates and châteaux in the of Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil, producing 418 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Vallée Mercier

Planning a wine route in the of Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Vallée Mercier.

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.

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