The Vieux Château Champs de Mars of Libournais of Bordeaux

Vieux Château Champs de Mars
The winery offers 4 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
This estate is part of the Vignobles Régis et Sébastien Moro.
It is ranked in the top 1384 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Libournais in the region of Bordeaux

The Vieux Château Champs de Mars is one of the best wineries to follow in Libournais.. It offers 4 wines for sale in of Libournais to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Vieux Château Champs de Mars wines

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

The top red wines of Vieux Château Champs de Mars

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Vieux Château Champs de Mars

How Vieux Château Champs de Mars wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of korean bibimbap, festive chinese fondue or rabbit with chorizo.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Vieux Château Champs de Mars

On the nose the red wine of Vieux Château Champs de Mars. often reveals types of flavors of smoke, earthy or non oak and sometimes also flavors of earth, oak or spices. In the mouth the red wine of Vieux Château Champs de Mars. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Vieux Château Champs de Mars

  • 2000With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 1999With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.70/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Vieux Château Champs de Mars.

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

Discovering the wine region of Libournais

Rich in world-renowned wines, such as Saint-Emilion Grands Crus and Bordeaux/libournais/pomerol">Pomerol, the Libourne region Lies on the right bank of the Dordogne, on the edge of the Périgord. The region takes its name from the port city of Libourne, where many merchants from the Correze settled in the early 19th century. But its jewel is the small medieval city of Saint-Emilion, listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site and one of the most famous showcases of the Bordeaux wine region. The region is very homogeneous due to its hilly landscapes, its geology (predominantly limestone subsoil), the concentration of vineyards and the importance of family-run, small or medium-sized estates, which contrast with the large Medoc-type estates.

The Libournais is also Distinguished by its Grape variety dominated by Merlot, which gives Finesse, roundness and fruitiness to the red wines and allows them to age well, even if they generally Open up more quickly than those of appellations dominated by Cabernet Sauvignon. .

The top pink wines of Vieux Château Champs de Mars

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Vieux Château Champs de Mars

How Vieux Château Champs de Mars wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of mussels with roquefort cheese, nanie's diced ham quiche or clopinettes in field dresses.

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon blanc

Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.

The top white wines of Vieux Château Champs de Mars

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Vieux Château Champs de Mars

How Vieux Château Champs de Mars wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or vegetarian such as recipes of tuna brick (light), stuffed squid or leek, goat cheese and bacon quiche.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Vieux Château Champs de Mars.

  • Sauvignon Blanc

The word of the wine: Botrytis cinerea

This fungus, also called noble rot, develops during the over-ripening phase and is an ally of great sweet white wines, when it concentrates the juice of the berries. It requires the humidity of morning fogs and beautiful sunny days, gives musts very rich in sugar and brings to the wines the famous taste of "roasted".

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Discover the grape variety: Malbec

Malbec, a high-yielding red grape variety, produces tannic and colourful wines. It is produced in different wine-growing regions and changes its name according to the grape variety. Called Auxerrois in Cahors, Malbec in Bordeaux, it is also known as Côt. 6,000 hectares of the Malbec grape are grown in France (in decline since the 1950s). Malbec is also very successful in Argentina. The country has become the world's leading producer of Malbec and offers wines with great potential.

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