The Château Vieux Ligat of Côtes de Bourg of Bordeaux

Château Vieux Ligat - Côtes de Bourg
Only one wine is currently referenced in this domain
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.3.
It is ranked in the top 193 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Côtes de Bourg in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Vieux Ligat is one of the best wineries to follow in Côtes de Bourg.. It offers 1 wines for sale in of Côtes de Bourg to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Vieux Ligat wines

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

The top red wines of Château Vieux Ligat

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

How Château Vieux Ligat wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of spaghetti with beef balls, veal tagine with carrots or wild boar ragout with kriek.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Vieux Ligat

In the mouth the red wine of Château Vieux Ligat. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Vieux Ligat

  • 2014With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2011With an average score of 2.70/5

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

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

Discovering the wine region of Côtes de Bourg

The wine region of Côtes de Bourg is located in the region of Côtes de Bordeaux of Bordeaux of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Roc de Cambes or the Château Tayac produce mainly wines red and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Côtes de Bourg are Merlot, Cabernet-Sauvignon and Cabernet franc, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Côtes de Bourg often reveals types of flavors of oak, sweet tobacco or pineapple and sometimes also flavors of cigar, ripe blackberries or bell pepper.

In the mouth of Côtes de Bourg is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 478 estates and châteaux in the of Côtes de Bourg, producing 830 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Côtes de Bourg go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Vieux Ligat

Planning a wine route in the of Côtes de Bourg? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Vieux Ligat.

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.

News about Château Vieux Ligat and wines from the region

Decanter World Wine Awards winners available at Marks & Spencer

Marks & Spencer is no stranger to achieving top scores at the Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA), and to celebrate its results the leading retailer has selected its favourite award-winning wines from this year’s awards, for customers to purchase exclusively on marksandspencer.com. Customers can choose from a carefully selected mix of six delicious winter-warming reds; an irresistible mix of crisp, refreshing, complex white wines from the Old and New World; a mix of both red and white wi ...

Burgundy 2022 harvest: winemaker optimism running high

It’s expected the Burgundy 2022 harvest will be bigger than the region’s five-year average, France’s agriculture ministry said this month, also noting the healthy state of vineyards in the area. Final figures on yields are not yet available, but suggestions the 2022 harvest could represent a rebound from the historically low 2021 crop could be welcome among wine lovers and producers alike. This week, it was also announced that the 162nd Hospices de Beaune auction, co-hosted by ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘A wine’s visual cues shout, stamp, whistle and roar’

Disconcerting: I couldn’t forget this bottle for days afterwards. Still can’t. Back in August, wine critic Lin Liu MW (together with her partner Philippe Lejeune of Château de Chambert in Cahors) came to dinner, en route to a short holiday in Provence. One of the bottles Lin brought for us to try together was the 2018 Les Rocheuses, Parcelles No 5 et 6, from Château Le Rey in Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux. It came in a slope-shouldered bottle, not a classic Bordeaux bottle. We tried it with some R ...

The word of the wine: Tannic

Said of an astringent wine rich in tannins.

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