The Château La Fontanelle is one of the best wineries to follow in Bordeaux.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Bordeaux to come and discover on site or to buy online.
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How Château La Fontanelle wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of pastasciutta (corsica), semolina-merguez salad or aiguillettes of duck with paprika and pan-fried ceps.
World-renowned age-worthy reds, led by round Merlot (plum, black fruit) or firm Cabernet Sauvignon (blackcurrant, cedar, graphite), blended with Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot for tannic structure. Structured Médoc and Graves, velvety Saint-Émilion and Pomerol. Also crisp dry whites (Sauvignon/Sémillon) and opulent sweet Sauternes with honey and candied fruit. A 110,000 ha Gironde vineyard, 65 appellations, cradle of the 1855 classified growths.
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Intensely coloured and simple reds, opaque purple colour (red pulp), supple tannins and light mouth with moderate acidity, with discreet red fruit aromas. Teinturier profile. Once widely planted in the Midi to deepen the colour of southern blends, today marginal but still found in Languedoc. French teinturier black grape (Grand Noir de la Calmette), bred in 1855 (Aramon x Petit Bouschet).
