The Château Lafont-Fourcat of Bordeaux

Château Lafont-Fourcat - Bordeaux
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 716 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Bordeaux

The Château Lafont-Fourcat 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 Lafont-Fourcat wines

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

The top red wines of Château Lafont-Fourcat

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Lafont-Fourcat

How Château Lafont-Fourcat wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of fillet of beef with morels, mouse of lamb with thyme or roast venison with green pepper sauce.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Lafont-Fourcat

On the nose the red wine of Château Lafont-Fourcat. often reveals types of flavors of oaky, vegetal or black cherries and sometimes also flavors of tobacco, dried fruit or black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Château Lafont-Fourcat. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Lafont-Fourcat

  • 2015With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.73/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.54/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Lafont-Fourcat.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot

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 Lafont-Fourcat

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 Lafont-Fourcat.

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.

News about Château Lafont-Fourcat and wines from the region

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Bordeaux wine sales to US see ‘spectacular recovery’

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The word of the wine: ODG

Organisation for the defence and management of wine, set up following the reform of the "syndicats de crus". The ODG is the collective organisation responsible for the defence and management of a product under an official sign of identification and quality and between wine appellations.