Les Tourelles de Longueville Pauillac AOP - Château Pichon Longueville-Baron

With Château Pichon Longueville-Baron Les Tourelles de Longueville Pauillac, a first-class red wine finds its way into the glass. It presents a wonderfully bright, ruby-red color. When held at a slight angle, the Bordeaux glass reveals a charming garnet-red hue at the rim. If you give it some air in the glass by swirling, you can perceive an excellent balance in this red wine, as it does not appear watery, syrupy, or liqueur-like on the sides of the glass. This French cuvée reveals wonderfully expressive notes of raspberries, roses, and redcurrants in the glass. These are accompanied by hints of additional fruits.

On the palate, Les Tourelles de Longueville Pauillac from Château Pichon Longueville-Baron starts off delightfully dry, firm, and aromatic. On the palate, the texture of this well-balanced red wine presents itself as wonderfully velvety. In the finish, this matured red wine from the Bordeaux winegrowing region impresses with considerable length. Once again, hints of rose and raspberry appear. In the aftertaste, mineral notes from the gravel-dominated soils join in.

Vinification of Les Tourelles de Longueville Pauillac from Château Pichon Longueville-Baron

The basis for the balanced Les Tourelles de Longueville Pauillac from Bordeaux is grapes from the Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Petit Verdot varieties. In Bordeaux, the vines that produce the grapes for this wine grow on gravel soils. Les Tourelles de Longueville Pauillac is an Old World wine in the best sense of the word, as this Frenchman exudes an exceptional European charm that clearly underscores the success of wines from the Old World. The wine berries for this red wine from France are harvested exclusively by hand once optimal ripeness has been ensured. After harvesting, the grapes are brought to the winery without delay. There they are sorted and gently crushed. Fermentation then takes place in small oak barrels at controlled temperatures. Fermentation is followed by maturation for 12 months in oak barriques.

Food recommendation for Château Pichon Longueville-Baron Les Tourelles de Longueville Pauillac

Ideally, enjoy this red wine from France at a temperature of 15 - 18°C as an accompaniment to potato pan with salmon, vegetable couscous with beef meatballs, or leek tortilla.

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