The Domaine de Vens-le-Haut of Seyssel of Savoie

Domaine de Vens-le-Haut - Altesse Seyssel
The winery offers 8 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 9 of the estates of Savoie.
It is located in Seyssel in the region of Savoie
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The Domaine de Vens-le-Haut is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 8 wines for sale in of Seyssel to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Domaine de Vens-le-Haut wines

Looking for the best Domaine de Vens-le-Haut wines in Seyssel among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Domaine de Vens-le-Haut 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 Domaine de Vens-le-Haut wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Domaine de Vens-le-Haut

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Domaine de Vens-le-Haut

How Domaine de Vens-le-Haut wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Domaine de Vens-le-Haut.

  • Altesse
  • Mondeuse Blanche

Discovering the wine region of Seyssel

Seyssel is the only single-Village appellation in Savoie, located 32 km South of Geneva on the western edge of the French Alps. Wine has been produced in Seyssel since the 11th century and over the years the area has built up a reputation for high quality, helped by the tourists who have always flocked to the region. Although still white wines are allowed by appellation law, the region is best known for its Rich, Floral">floralSparkling wines, mainly from the Altesse and Chasselas grapes. The village of Seyssel is located on Part of the Haut-Rhône, as it forms the westernmost border of Savoie before heading south to the famous hillsides of the Rhone Valley wine region.

Curiously, Seyssel is actually split between two administrative departments: the Ain (home to the Bugey appellation) on the west bank of the Rhône, and Savoie on the east bank. This split has created an unusual situation where the two halves are recognized as independent communes, both called Seyssel. The small village of Corbonod (on the Savoy side) is also covered by the Seyssel appellation. The vineyards of Seyssel are located on the slopes of the mountains and ridges surrounding the river.

The top red wines of Domaine de Vens-le-Haut

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Domaine de Vens-le-Haut

How Domaine de Vens-le-Haut wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The best vintages in the red wines of Domaine de Vens-le-Haut

  • 2012With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.20/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Domaine de Vens-le-Haut.

  • Mondeuse Noire

Discover the grape variety: Mondeuse noire

Cultivated for a very long time in Savoie, it is not the black form of mondeuse blanche and Mondeuse grise is a natural mutation of mondeuse noire. According to Thierry Lacombe (I.N.R.A./Montpellier), the latter is the result of a natural intraspecific crossing between the black tressot and the white mondeuse. Mondeuse grise and Mondeuse noire are both registered in the official catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A1.

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Discover the grape variety: Mondeuse blanche

Haute-Savoie finds in Mondeuse blanche one of the oldest grape varieties planted in its vineyards. It can be found throughout Savoie and Ain, although its cultivation is not very well developed. Barely 5 hectares of vineyards are planted with this variety. It is known by other names such as savouette, dongine, couilleri or aigre blanc. Mondeuse blanche can be recognized by the downy appearance of its young shoots bearing very tan leaves, reminiscent of spider webs. The leaf blade tends to lose its tan appearance as it ages, while the 5 lobes are clearly defined. Mondeuse blanche produces bunches of grapes that give a wine with good acidity and a long shelf life, which can be kept for up to thirty years. They appear compact, cylindrical and winged. The juicy, sweet and crunchy berries ripen in the second late season. The golden yellow or green skin is quite strong, covering an ovoid or spherical fruit of medium size.

News about Domaine de Vens-le-Haut and wines from the region

Andrew Jefford: ‘2021 has been the year of all the miseries’

How’s the weather been this year? Awful. ‘La nature m’écoeure’, one of my wine-growing friends posted on Facebook on 8 April, having been out to look at the frost-crippled shoots on his vines that morning: ‘Nature disgusts me’. It takes a lot to make a wine-grower feel that. He wasn’t alone. Jeremiads echo around the northern hemisphere as 2021 closes. It’s been the year of all the miseries. None suffered more horribly than the growers of Germany’s Ahr valley, where floodwaters caused by the fou ...

Port producer proposes new classification for ‘young harvest’ releases

Albino Jorge Sousa, owner of Port estate Quinta da Boeira, said his proposal for a new classification called ‘Full Body-Young Harvest’ Ports would inject cashflow earlier for Port producers. Jorge Sousa urged the Port sector to ‘wake up’ to meet what he said was growing demand for younger Ports from wine buyers and importers over the past two years. His proposal comes amid wider efforts to help reinvigorate the Port category. This year, Portugal’s Port and Douro Wine Institute, the I ...

Bordeaux’s secondary market share plummets to all-time low

The region’s trade share slumped to an historic low of 37.7% in 2021 after failing to keep pace with the broader market. It was the first time Bordeaux’s market share had ever fallen below 40%. At the time of writing, it has slipped to 32%, according to Liv-ex. The company divides its main index into a series of sub-indices. Over the past year, the Bordeaux sub-index increased by a modest 11.5%, compared to 43.8% for Burgundy and 51.2% for Champagne. The main challenger to Bordeaux’s throne is B ...

The word of the wine: Clear

Said of a wine that is clear and brilliant in colour and contains no suspended matter.

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