The Château Clos Fontaine of Bordeaux

Château Clos Fontaine - Bordeaux Côtes de Francs
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
This estate is part of the Famille Thienpont.
It is ranked in the top 2095 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Bordeaux

The Château Clos Fontaine is one of the best wineries to follow in Bordeaux.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Bordeaux to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Clos Fontaine wines

Looking for the best Château Clos Fontaine wines in Bordeaux among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Clos Fontaine 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 Clos Fontaine wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château Clos Fontaine

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Clos Fontaine

How Château Clos Fontaine wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of scottish haggis, veal with cream and mushrooms or duck breast with red fruits.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Clos Fontaine

On the nose the red wine of Château Clos Fontaine. often reveals types of flavors of oaky, earthy or black currant and sometimes also flavors of cedar, non oak or earth. In the mouth the red wine of Château Clos Fontaine. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Clos Fontaine

  • 2010With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2004With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.76/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.74/5
  • 2006With an average score of 3.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Clos Fontaine.

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

Discovering the wine region of Bordeaux

Bordeaux, in southwestern France, is one of the most famous, prestigious and prolific wine regions in the world. The majority of Bordeaux wines (nearly 90% of the production Volume) are the Dry, medium and Full-bodied red Bordeaux blends for which it is famous. The finest (and most expensive) are the wines of the great châteaux of Haut-Médoc and the right bank appellations of Saint-Émilion and Pomerol. The former focuses (at the highest level) on Cabernet Sauvignon, the latter on Merlot.

The legendary reds are complemented by high-quality white wines made from Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc. These range from dry whites that challenge the best of Burgundy (Pessac-Léognan is particularly renowned) to the Sweet, botrytised nectars of Sauternes. Although Bordeaux is most famous for its wines produced in specific districts or communes, many of its wines fall under other, broader appellations. These include AOC Bordeaux, Bordeaux Supérieur and Crémant de Bordeaux.

The Bordeaux Red appellation represents more than a third of the total production. The official Bordeaux wine region extends 130 kilometres inland from the Atlantic coast. 111,000 hectares of vineyards were registered in 2018, a figure that has remained largely constant over the previous decade. However, the number of winegrowers has consolidated; in 2018 there were around 6,000, compared to 9,000 a decade earlier.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Clos Fontaine

Planning a wine route in the of Bordeaux? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Clos Fontaine.

Discover the grape variety: Petit Verdot

Petit Verdot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (southwest). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches and small grapes. Petit Verdot noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Armagnac.

News about Château Clos Fontaine and wines from the region

Château Lafon-Rochet appoints Christophe Congé as MD

Having joined Domaine Barons de Rothschild in 1999, Congé has since held the role of oenologist and wine operations manager across Château Lafite Rothschild and Château Duhart Milon for over 22 years. He has now been appointed MD of  Saint-Estèphe fourth growth Château Lafon-Rochet. He takes on his new role with immediate effect. Congé will work closely with Emmanuel Cruse, director of Vignobles Cruse-Lorenzetti, which acquired Château Lafon-Rochet from the Tesseron family last year. The appoint ...

Rare Haut-Brion helps Prince Robert of Luxembourg cellar auction ‘smash’ estimate

All 818 lots were sold in the auction, which saw Prince Robert of Luxembourg, chairman and CEO of Château Haut-Brion owner Domaine Clarence Dillon, open up his personal cellar to raise funds for the PolG Foundation. Featuring 4,200 bottles and covering Bordeaux wine royalty spanning more than a century of vintages, Sotheby’s said the auction ‘smashed’ its pre-sale high estimate of around $4m.  Two 4.5-litre Jeroboams of Haut-Brion, one from the 1926 vintage and the other from 1 ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘Telling stories about terroir will lead us astray’

A domaine’s long history hoists its inanimate wines into life; biography brings meaning to the simple sensual pleasure of tasting a grower’s efforts. It’s important, though, to know what we are doing when we tell stories. And to know what to tell them about. Winemakers take the messy chaos of natural processes and add discipline, giving shape and direction to produce a stable and enticing wine. This was never nature’s intent. The storyteller takes a messy chaos of random events, either imagined ...

The word of the wine: Heart-to-heart

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