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After several years in bottles, this wine has assimilated the utmost power of this fabulous 2005 vintage. On the palate, it now boasts strucutre, elegance, rich and velvety tannins, but no arduousness. A unique opportunity to obtain this wine today at an angelic price!
Notes :- Bettane + Desseauve 13,5/20
- Gault & Millau 16,5/20
- Jancis 16,5/20
- Parker 85-88/100
- La Revue du Vin de France 17/ 20
Wine characteristics
- Vintage : Château Fourcas Hosten
- Year : 2005
- Appellation : Listrac - Médoc (Cru Bourgeois Supérieur)
- Colour : Red
- Grape types : 45 % Cabernet Sauvignon, 45 % Merlot, 10 % Cabernet Franc
- Soil : gravelly and chalky-clay
- Harvest : manual and partially mechanical
- Type of viticulture : sustainable
- Alcohol content : 13,00%
- Contenance : 75cl
Tasting - Cellaring
- Appearance : garnet robe
- Nose : fruity and empyreumatic
- Mouth : rounded with well assimilated tannins
- Serving temperature : 16-18 °C
- Cellaring : 3 years
- Drink from : 2015
- Winemaking process : traditional with temperature control
- Maturation : 12 months in barrels
Food-matching
- Food-matching : a cut of beef with woodland mushrooms
Experts reviews :
Bettane + Desseauve
Rated wine : 13,5/20Gault & Millau
Rated wine : 16,5/20Jancis
Rated wine : 16,5/20Parker
Rated wine : 85-88/100La Revue du Vin de France
Rated wine : 17/ 20
Domain :
A winemaking region of reference throughout the world, Bordeaux produces wines whose quality is of exemplary consistency. We propose a selection of very fine estates offering excellent value for money and, as if that was not enough, most of them are from vintages that are now legendary in Bordeaux! An opportunity not to be missed!
Appellation :
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Wines from Bordeaux are the quintessential image of French wine around the world. The region has 117,500 hectares of vineyards and produce 5,700,000 hl of wine in an average year.
The vineyards are wrapped around the Garonne, Dordogne and their shared estuary, the Gironde.
The climate in Bordeaux is temperate, with the vineyards themselves protected from the ocean by the département of Landes. Frosts are infrequent and while the spring and summer are sometimes fairly wet, a fine autumn is often the determining factor for the quality of the vintage.
The Bordeaux subsoil tends to be rather diverse. As a result, major vintages are often grown on gravelly hilltops, while the surroundings are made up of limestone or clay sediments les. Part of the complexity of Bordeaux stems from the way the grape type and subsoil combine to work their magic.
Grape types – red: merlot (60%), cabernet sauvignon (25%), cabernet franc (11%), as well as petit verdot and malbec.
Grape types – white: semillon (53%), sauvignon (35%), muscadelle (6%), as well as colombard and ugni blanc.
Recent vintages
- 2010: rich, powerful reds with imposing tannins. Great cellaring potential. Fresh, elegant dry whites. Fine sweet wines, fruity with fine acidity
- 2011: contrasting red with imposing tannins and immediate acidity.. Good dry whites that are easy to drink and refreshing. Rich, concentrated sweet wines.
- 2012: reds better on the right bank with its dominant Merlot grape. Drink fairly young while awaiting previous vintages to mature. Fragrant, well-balanced dry whites.
- 2013: a different, varied red vintage, but fine wines to be drunk young. Very fine and aromatic dry whites. Liquorous, ideal for racking with a magnificent balance.