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Highly-rated wine from an excellent terroir owned by the Moueix family.
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This is top class St Emilion made from a blend of mostly Merlot with some Cabernet Franc. Alain Moueix is a talented winemaker - only the most scrupulous attention to detail enables a high quality wine like this to be made from organically grown grapes in such a marginal climate. Top marks!
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The grand Château Fonroque is situated a stone's throw from the town of Saint-Emilion with the 18 hectares of vines in a single plot.The Moueix family's involvement with Saint-Emilion goes back to 1931, when Alain's great-grandparents arrived at the estate. Alain Moueix took over management of the family estate in 2001. He is an agricultural engineer and oenologist and has extensive experience in winegrowing. Besides a year and a half experience in the vineyards of New Zealand (1990 and 1991 vintages) he was the Manager of Château Saint-André Corbin in Saint-Georges Saint-Emilion from 1991 to 2002 and has been the Manager of Château Mazeyres in Pomerol since 1992. His guiding strategy calls for a constant detailed study of the soil, in order to help keep it revitalised... We need to understand it, to know it, to feel it in order to give it what it needs. Besides the ecologic aspect, the aim is to find another balance in the wine, to develop the vertical dimension in it, to increase the relief sensations. Even more it’s the search for more subtleties in the wines, to find varied aromas and to obtain the best that the terroir can offer.Thanks to organic farming, Alain believes they obtain more lively wines in which fruit and flower sensations are enhanced. They are complex, spicy... with a finish stressed by minerality.Growing the vineyard organically does not just mean that they stop using chemicals and enhance soil life. It is also includes planting hedges (between blocks, on slopes, near ditches) and “hosting” good insects to eat the insects that damage the vines, all in order to create a natural equilibrium. The use of grass in between the rows is also a way to bring biodiversity. When needed, a special mix of grass is adapted to each individual block. They also recycle all the waste from the estate (solid or liquid). For example, rain water is used to clean tractors and water from a well is used to spray the vineyard.When we visited the vineyard in April the first thing that struck us was that there were more people around in the vineyards. There was also a tractor spraying a preparation of very diluted, dynamised cow horn manure. The vineyard looked green, healthy and alive. This contrasted starkly to many other vineyards we saw the same week where tractors had been spraying weedkiller to kill off the grass between the vines and the vineyards looked brown and deserted. Of course spending more time tending the vines and the soil costs more in terms of labour, but the result is definitely worthwhile. Even in a difficult year like 2007 the wine has a purity, perfume and balance that many conventional wines lacked.
Product Details:
Vintage: 2004
Alcohol: 13.5% abv
Country: France
Region: Bordeaux
Unit Size: 75cl
Drinking: 2008-2014
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Shipping Weight: 1kg
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