The Vignobles Lafaye Père et Fils of Libournais of Bordeaux

Vignobles Lafaye Père et Fils - Château Haut Tuquet Castillon - Côtes de Bordeaux
The winery offers 11 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is ranked in the top 1578 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Libournais in the region of Bordeaux

The Vignobles Lafaye Père et Fils is one of the best wineries to follow in Libournais.. It offers 11 wines for sale in of Libournais to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Vignobles Lafaye Père et Fils wines

Looking for the best Vignobles Lafaye Père et Fils wines in Libournais among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Vignobles Lafaye Père et Fils 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 Vignobles Lafaye Père et Fils wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Vignobles Lafaye Père et Fils

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Vignobles Lafaye Père et Fils

How Vignobles Lafaye Père et Fils wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of venison stew to be prepared the day before, home-made coq au vin or rabbit legs with mushrooms.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Vignobles Lafaye Père et Fils

On the nose the red wine of Vignobles Lafaye Père et Fils. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, red fruit or butter and sometimes also flavors of tobacco, plum or nutmeg. In the mouth the red wine of Vignobles Lafaye Père et Fils. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Vignobles Lafaye Père et Fils

  • 2003With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2005With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2004With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2007With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Vignobles Lafaye Père et Fils.

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

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. .

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Planning a wine route in the of Libournais? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Vignobles Lafaye Père et Fils.

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 Vignobles Lafaye Père et Fils and wines from the region

Rethinking the wine bottle for the future

There’s been a focus on making wine production less energy intensive as well as environmentally friendly in order to address climate change. The efforts continue but, as is the case for electric cars where it’s the battery technology that needs innovating, it’s in wine bottles where we’re seeing rapid change. It comes in a two-pronged attack to reduce energy use in manufacturing and then an even bigger emphasis on reducing bottle weight for shipping to reduce fuel usage and thus CO2 production. ...

Angélus, Léoville Barton join 2021 en primeur releases

Château Angélus 2021 was released this morning (23 May) at €265 per bottle ex-Bordeaux, according to Liv-ex, up by around 2% on the opening price of the 2020 vintage last year. Merchants were offering Angélus 2021 for £3,120 (12x75cl in bond). Decanter’s Georgie Hindle scored Angélus 2021 95 points, praising its ‘exceptional finesse’. She said the wine represents an excellent effort, following a Bordeaux 2021 growing season that presented many weather challenges. This vintage of Angélus contains ...

Group of Bordeaux vignerons launches Pirate wine union

The project began life in 2019 as a Facebook group, created by Graves-based winemaker Jean-Baptiste Duquesne of Château Cazebonne. The positive reactions from both the public and fellow winemakers that followed prompted the group to pursue official recognition. ‘The idea started with me and with my friend Laurent David of Château Edmus in St-Emilion. He gave me the idea of the name “pirate”,’ Duquesne told Decanter. ‘So in December 2019, I created a Facebook group called Bordeaux Pirate to show ...

The word of the wine: Flowable

A supple, easy-drinking wine with little consistency in the mouth.