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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 that produce an incredible amount 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 Rhone Valley or the Languedoc-Roussillon region.
France is a country of great climatic and geographical diversity, which explains why the French territory produces very different wines, each with their own characteristics.
Wines from Languedoc-Roussillon or 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 the production of generous, powerful and creamy 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 or 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 .
Although the vintage offers slight variations in terms of tastes and flavors, the grape varieties used unhesitatingly reveal their full character:
We thus find:
Find all our red wines and the Gérard Bertrand wine collections .
Whether it concerns a conventional red wine or an organic red wine , one of the questions that can be asked when looking for the best red wine is to know its manufacturing process, from the cultivation of the vine to the winemaking 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 now represent an interesting alternative, being more in line with changing mentalities regarding the impact of man on his environment.
Discover our various descriptive pages on red wine:
Red wine in France
Also discover:
Rosé wine or the best rosé wine
And learn more about Gérard Bertrand wines:
His Languedoc-Roussillon wine estates
Her know-how
Biodynamics
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