The Château La Fonrousse of Guyenne of South West

Château La Fonrousse
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.3.
It is ranked in the top 1370 of the estates of South West.
It is located in Guyenne in the region of South West

The Château La Fonrousse is one of the best wineries to follow in Guyenne.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Guyenne to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château La Fonrousse wines

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

The top red wines of Château La Fonrousse

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château La Fonrousse

How Château La Fonrousse wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of traditional hungarian goulash, lamb shoulder confit or roast venison with green pepper sauce.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château La Fonrousse

  • 2014With an average score of 3.10/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château La Fonrousse.

  • Malbec
  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon

Discovering the wine region of Guyenne

45 kilometres east of Bordeaux, Blasimon is perched on a hillside overlooking the Gamage, a tributary of the Dordogne. Its hilly sites and its calm make it an ideal place to relax. A Village of medieval origin, its origin reflects the traditional organization of the bastides. The city conceals one of the Romanesque jewels of the Gironde, the Benedictine abbey of the X-XIII th centuries.

Also worth seeing are the medieval mills of Labarthe and Borie, the remains of the feudal Castle of Blasimon, the manor house of Pousse-Bourre, the church of Piis and the ruins of the Bonne Nouvelle chapel. The Cave Coopérative was created in 1935 and brings together winegrowers who have owned properties that have been handed down for several generations. It has a production capacity of 56,000 hectolitres of red wines with the "Bordeaux" appellation and white wines with the "Bordeaux" and "Entre-deux-Mers" appellations. Throughout the year, the Vine is surrounded by intensive care, the culture is always done according to very precise rules.

The top sweet wines of Château La Fonrousse

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Château La Fonrousse

How Château La Fonrousse wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of quick brioche sausage, sea bream or zucchini quiche.

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Château La Fonrousse.

  • Chardonnay

Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). 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 to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château La Fonrousse

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

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). 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. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.

News about Château La Fonrousse and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Biodynamic (agriculture)

Organic agriculture is part of a vision of the world linking the plant and all living beings to the cosmos and basing work in the vineyard and the cellar on the cycles of the moon.