Chateau de Fontenille Bordeaux Rouge 2021

Chateau de Fontenille Bordeaux Rouge 

Region: Entre-Deux-Mers, Bordeaux, France

Vintage: 2021

Bottle size: 75cl

Grape: 80% Merlot 10% Cabernet Franc 10% Cabernet Sauvignon

ABV: 14%

Bright ruby in colour. Produced in an approachable modern style, this is an elegant wine with lingering berry fruit notes. Well-structured, full bodied with characteristic smoky, cigar-box notes so typical of good red Bordeaux.

The Château de Fontenille vineyards are situated at 110 metres above sea level in the Entre-Deux-Mers region between the Garonne and Dordogne rivers. The free-draining gravel and clay soils here, combined with the high winds blowing in from the Atlantic, result in intensely flavoured grapes that produce pure and expressive wines.

Vines have been grown at Château de Fontenille since the 13th century, with a UNESCO-protected pilgrimage route running through the vineyards to neighbouring Abbaye de la Sauve-Majeure, whose monks tended the vines for hundreds of years.