1995 | Chteau Fonraud | Listrac-Medoc

Red Wine: 1995 | Chteau Fonraud | Listrac-Medoc

It presents itself with great elegance and charm with precise aromas, imposing but very fine tannins and great length.

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Producer: Chteau Fonraud

Vintage: 1995

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13.5%

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend Red

Country/Region: France, Bordeaux

It presents itself with great elegance and charm with precise aromas, imposing but very fine tannins and great length.

Producer Information

Chteau Fonraud is a wine estate based in Listrac-Mdoc, in the Haut-Mdoc wine region just north of Bordeaux city. The estate produces a range of wines under the Fonraud title, including the grand vin, Chteau Fonraud, as well as the white Le Cygne de Fonraud and the second wine, Lgende de Fonraud. The estate covers a patchwork of 35 hectares (86 acres) of vineyard dedicated to red wine varieties around the chteau building in Listrac-Mdoc. Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot account, very roughly, for around fifty percent of the plantings each with the remaining small proportion planted to Petit Verdot. White wine varieties cover just over five hectares (12 acres), also in Listrac-Mdoc but here coming under the Bordeaux blanc appellation, with Sauvignon Blanc accounting for over half of vines. The remainder is split between Smillon (32 percent) and Muscadelle (15 percent). These proportions are, broadly speaking, encountered in the wines. The Chteau Fonraud grand vin contains slightly more than half Cabernet Sauvignon with the remainder Merlot and a tiny portion of Petit Verdot. The second wine, La Lgende de Fonraud, is a 50-50 split between Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon and the third wine, Clos des Demoiselles, showing more Merlot (just under two-thirds) than Cabernet Sauvignon. The white officially Le Cygne but also known as Le Cygne de Fonraud broadly mirrors the percentages in the vineyard although, as with all wines, blend composition will vary through both natural and man-made inputs. The location which became the Fonraud estate got its name from the elision of “font” (fount or spring) and “raux” (royal) as the area was the location of a watering stop by the royal family in the 12th Century when the Aquitaine region was under English control. A farmhouse on the site was replaced by a grander chteau in the mid 19th Century by then-owner Henri Le Blanc de Mauvezin. De Mauvezin also attached nearby Domaine de Vivens (later Chteau Chemin Royal) to the Fonraud estate. The property was acquired by Lo Chanfreau in 1962. Chanfreau, a former winemaker in the French colony of Algeria, rebuilt, refurbished and replanted the estate. Some of the concrete vats constructed by Chanfreau in the early 1960s are still in use today.