The Château Vieux Moulin is one of the best wineries to follow in Médoc.. It offers 13 wines for sale in of Médoc to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Château Vieux Moulin wines in Médoc among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Vieux Moulin 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 Moulin wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Château Vieux Moulin wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal such as recipes of vegetable noddles, spaghetti with courgettes and italian ham or milanese cutlets like in italy.
On the nose the red wine of Château Vieux Moulin. often reveals types of flavors of earth, oak or spices and sometimes also flavors of plum, chocolate or non oak. In the mouth the red wine of Château Vieux Moulin. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
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.
How Château Vieux Moulin wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of pasta with avocado, goat cheese and bacon quiche or apple chips.
On the nose the pink wine of Château Vieux Moulin. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit.
Mainly cultivated in the Languedoc region, carignan originates from Spain. Because of its very resistant branches, it is often called hardwood. Its bunches are quite large. They are compact and winged with a lignified stalk. The berries are spherical in shape and take on a bluish-black colour. Carignan has a total of 25 approved clones, the best known of which are 274, 65 and 9. The carignan buds at the beginning of June and is protected from spring frosts. It does not reach maturity until the third period. Also, this grape variety needs warmth and sunshine. It appreciates dry and not very fertile soils. Carignan vines can live for more than 100 years. Those that are more than 30 years old produce a better wine. This wine is well coloured. It is generous and powerful at the same time. Pepper, cherry, blackberry, banana, raspberry, almond, prune and violet are some of the aromas that this grape variety gives off.
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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.
