The Vieux Caveau of Rhône méridional of Rhone Valley

Vieux Caveau - Côtes Du Rhône
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 7911 of the estates of Rhone Valley.
It is located in Rhône méridional in the region of Rhone Valley

The Vieux Caveau is one of the best wineries to follow in Rhône méridional.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Rhône méridional to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Vieux Caveau wines

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

The top red wines of Vieux Caveau

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Vieux Caveau

How Vieux Caveau wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of provencal stew, mouse of lamb with thyme or duck breast in a crust.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Vieux Caveau

In the mouth the red wine of Vieux Caveau. is a powerful with a lot of tannins present in the mouth.

The best vintages in the red wines of Vieux Caveau

  • 2015With an average score of 3.80/5

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

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Grenache
  • Mourvedre

Discovering the wine region of Rhône méridional

Côtes du Rhône is a regional appellation in the Rhône Valley in eastern France. It applies to red, rosé and white wines, and includes more than 170 villages. The area follows the course of the Rhône southward for 125 miles (200 km) from Saint-Cyr-sur-le-Rhône to Avignon. A small portion of the wines in the appellation are white wines.

However, the classic Côtes du Rhône wine is a blend of Fruity, medium-weight reds made from Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre. The Côtes du Rhône appellation was introduced in November 1937. Its purpose was to give a general title to good quality Rhone wines from the lesser known and less prestigious wine producing areas of the valley. Côtes du Rhône The landscape of the Côtes du Rhône.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Vieux Caveau

Planning a wine route in the of Rhône méridional? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Vieux Caveau.

Discover the grape variety: Mourvèdre

Mourvèdre noir is a grape variety originating from Spain. It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by medium to large bunches, and grapes of medium size. Mourvèdre noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Rhône valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

News about Vieux Caveau and wines from the region

Hugh Johnson: ‘I’ve formed a bond with Grillo and flirted with Verdicchio’

I’d like to say we took advantage of the lockdown and its related commotion to do a stock-take, explore new avenues, turn over intriguing stones, widen and deepen our drinking, taking careful notes as we went. Sadly, no. I won’t say we got stuck in a rut, but we did tend to stick with comfort wines – and “comfort”, in our case, means familiar. Regular readers of this quarterly column can probably guess the labels on the resulting empties. We have a wider range of comfort foods, I’m afraid, than ...

Walls’ hidden gems: Domaine A&E Verset, Cornas

Emmanuelle Verset is the sixth generation to make wine in her family, and represents the E in Domaine A&E Verset. The A is for Alain, her father. She took over from him in 2016 at the age of 24, and is one of the few female winemakers in Cornas. The Verset name runs deep in this part of the Rhône. You might have heard of Noël Verset (1919 – 2015), whose bottles are highly sought-after today – Noël was Alain’s uncle. Scroll down to see Matt Walls tasting notes and scores for six Domaine A& ...

Walls and Barnes reach André Simon Food & Drink Book Awards shortlist

The final 11-strong shortlist includes four drink books – Wines of the Rhône by Matt Walls; The South America Wine Guide by Amanda Barnes; Inside Burgundy by Jasper Morris MW and Foot Trodden by Simon J Woolf & Ryan Opaz.    Commenting on the shortlist, Nicholas Lander, chair of the André Simon Memorial Fund, said: ‘A number of this year’s food and drink nominees, including Wines of the Rhône, address the urgent environmental and global issues of today in ways that are original, inspiring an ...

The word of the wine: Champagne rosé

Often obtained by adding red wines (from Champagne), it is even the only vineyard where this practice is allowed. Some producers prefer the practice used in other regions, i.e. a short maceration to extract sufficient colouring matter. This results in winey rosés for meals. Elegant aperitif rosé is more often made from red wine coloured Chardonnay. Rosés can be vintage or non vintage.