Best red wine, Gérard Bertrand helps you make the right choice

In France, the best red wines are all different.

By reputation and renown, the best French red wines are often associated with the red wines of the Bordeaux or Burgundy region, two wine regions producing an incredible quantity of great wines , such as Pommard or Nuits-Saint-Georges in Burgundy, and Saint-Emilion Grand Cru or Pessac-Léognan in Bordeaux. However, limiting yourself to just two regions when you want to select the best French red wine would be a real mistake. Indeed, many other terroirs produce very great wines, such as Alsace, Provence, the Rhône Valley or the Languedoc-Roussillon region.

France is a country with great climatic and geographical diversity, which explains why the French territory produces very different wines, each with their own characteristics.

Wines from Languedoc-Roussillon and Côtes du Rhône, for example, offer a very interesting compromise between power and delicacy. Vintages such as Beaumes de Venise, Gigondas, and Vacqueyras are among the most prestigious appellations.

Further south, in the Occitanie region, the grapes benefit from maximum sunshine thanks to the Mediterranean climate, and allow them to produce generous, powerful and smooth wines. This is particularly the case for the Grands Vins Gérard Bertrand selection, which brings together bottles that are among the best French red wines. Examples include the vintages of Château l'Hospitalet , Château de Villemajou and Château de la Soujeole , three exceptional wines with a unique character. In addition, criteria such as the vintage or the grape variety are parameters to take into account when selecting a bottle of red wine .

While the vintage offers slight variations in terms of tastes and flavors, the grape varieties used unhesitatingly reveal their full character:

We thus find:

Pinot Noir (Upper Aude Valley), supple and delicate
Merlot (Aude Hauterive, Malepère), round, tender and silky
There Syrah (Minervois La Livinière, La Clape), power and suppleness
Grenache (Terrasses du Larzac), ample and full-bodied
Carignan (Corbières-Boutenac), tannic, powerful and structured

Find all our red wines and the Gérard Bertrand wine collections .

Conventional red wine or organic red wine?

Whether it concerns a conventional red wine or an organic red wine , one of the questions that one can ask oneself when looking for the best red wine is to know its production process, from the cultivation of the vines to the vinification phase. Indeed, new cultivation processes, more respectful of the environment, have appeared in recent decades, offering consumers more ecological alternatives, such as organic wines , or even biodynamic wines .

Today, visionary winemakers with strong ecological convictions like Gérard Bertrand have specialized in the production of exceptional red wines from organic and biodynamic cultivation, this is particularly the case for the Grands Vins of Château L'Hospitalet (AOP La Clape), or Château La Sauvageonne (AOP Languedoc), two high-quality vintages produced according to the principles of biodynamics.

When looking for the best red wine , organic red wines today represent an interesting alternative, being more in line with the changing mentalities regarding the impact of man on his environment.

Discover our various descriptive pages on red wine:

THE red wine in France

Organic red wine

Organic Languedoc wine

Demeter biodynamic wine

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Orange wine

Rosé wine or the best rosé wine

And learn more about Gérard Bertrand wines:

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Her know-how

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