The Château Vieux Cassan of Médoc of Bordeaux

Château Vieux Cassan - Médoc
Only one wine is currently referenced in this domain
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.1.
It is ranked in the top 1763 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Médoc in the region of Bordeaux
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Top Château Vieux Cassan wines

Looking for the best Château Vieux Cassan wines in Médoc among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Vieux Cassan 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 Vieux Cassan wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château Vieux Cassan

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Vieux Cassan

How Château Vieux Cassan wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of braciola (southern italy), leg of lamb in a herb crust with preserved vegetables or pheasant with mushrooms and tomatoes.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Vieux Cassan

On the nose the red wine of Château Vieux Cassan. often reveals types of flavors of iron, cherry or oaky and sometimes also flavors of smoke, red fruit or leather. In the mouth the red wine of Château Vieux Cassan. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Vieux Cassan

  • 1998With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.10/5
  • 2011With an average score of 2.90/5
  • 2013With an average score of 2.80/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Vieux Cassan.

  • Malbec
  • Merlot
  • Petit Verdot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc

Discovering the wine region of Médoc

Bordeaux's Médoc is an area of coastal lagoons, sand dunes and pine forests located on the 45th parallel. It is also a global wine powerhouse, and home to four of the world's most prestigious wine villages: Pauillac, Margaux, Saint-Estèphe and Saint-Julien. The estates located in these villages produce some of the most expensive bottles in the world. The region has also provided all but one of the châteaux included in the official 1855 Bordeaux wine classification (Haut-Brion).

The Médoc vineyards cover about 16,000 hectares, including the various small appellations. Approximately 5500 hectares of vines are classified for the production of AOC/AOP Médoc wines. Wedged between the Atlantic coast and the wide Gironde estuary, the Médoc is in fact a peninsula. It stretches 80 kilometres (50 miles) to the northwest, from the city of Bordeaux to the Pointe de Grave.

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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 Vieux Cassan and wines from the region

Decanter magazine latest issue: July 2022

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Bordeaux ‘Act for Change’ symposium

The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C  in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...

Domaines Henri Martin – the spirit of family and terroir

The story of Domaines Henri Martin is that of a family business founded on a shared commitment, across generations, to produce wines with character, true to the quality of the exceptional vineyards and the history of the iconic estates they hail from. Descending from a family rooted in the Médoc for more than 300 years, Henri Martin was well aware of the potential of some of the region’s finest parcels. Motivated by this belief and by a vibrant entrepreneurial spirit, he accomplished something q ...

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