The Winery Vallettes of Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil of Loire Valley

Winery Vallettes
The winery offers 12 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is ranked in the top 17 of the estates of Loire Valley.
It is located in Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil in the region of Loire Valley
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The Winery Vallettes is one of the world's great estates. It offers 12 wines for sale in of Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Vallettes wines

Looking for the best Winery Vallettes 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 Vallettes 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 Vallettes wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Vallettes

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Vallettes

How Winery Vallettes wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef with panang curry (red curry), country cabbage or roast pheasant.

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery Vallettes.

  • Cabernet Franc

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

Cabernet Franc (Breton) signature as monovarietal on the north bank of the Loire in Touraine, ≤10% Cabernet Sauvignon: fresh vibrant reds with bursting aromas of raspberry, cherry, blackcurrant and floral and spicy touches, fine tannins and silky palate. Light fruity gravel wines to drink young, more structured mineral tuffeau wines suitable for 5-6 years of aging. Luminous ruby robe. AOC neighbor of Bourgueil, pure Loire identity of Cabernet Franc.

The top red wines of Winery Vallettes

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Vallettes

How Winery Vallettes wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of cataplana with seafood, endive frichti or rabbit with beer and mustard.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Vallettes

  • 0With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.49/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.46/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.36/5

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

  • Cabernet Franc

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Supple, fragrant reds with fine tannins and vibrant freshness, showing raspberry, violet, green pepper, pencil lead and gentle spice aromas. Star of the Loire as a single variety (Chinon, Bourgueil, Saumur-Champigny) and of the right bank of Bordeaux in blends (Cheval Blanc at 60%). Also in semi-dry Anjou rosés. A historic Bordeaux variety, parent of Cabernet-Sauvignon, Merlot and Carmenère.

The top white wines of Winery Vallettes

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Vallettes

How Winery Vallettes wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, lean fish or fruity desserts such as recipes of scallops on a bed of leeks, medallions of monkfish with citrus fruits or express cherry clafoutis.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Vallettes.

  • Chenin Blanc

The word of the wine: Ovoids (tanks)

Egg-shaped vats used for wine making and maturing that favour the natural suspension of the lees thanks to the vortex movements, which give the wine more fat and fruity aromas.

The top pink wines of Winery Vallettes

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Vallettes

How Winery Vallettes wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of greek moussaka, rabbit with hunter's sauce or alice's rabbit.

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Vallettes.

  • Cabernet Franc

Discover the grape variety: Chenin blanc

Chameleon whites with taut acidity, ranging from mineral dry (Savennières, Vouvray sec) to off-dry and medium-sweet (Vouvray, Montlouis), sumptuous botrytised sweet (Quarts-de-Chaume, Bonnezeaux, Coteaux du Layon) and brilliant sparkling (Crémant de Loire, Vouvray brut). Aromas of quince, apple, honey, white flowers, beeswax and flint. An Anjou variety, also star of South Africa's Western Cape.

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