Cuvée Fontenille Rouge 2017

Why we love this wine

• Grapes & Terroir

  All of Fontenille’s wines are made using grapes grown on their estate owned vineyards, it’s Lauris vineyards of 35 stunning hectares are tended with the utmost care using certified organic and sustainable practices that ensure the highest quality grapes.
• Winemaking

  Young winemaker Xavier Balespouey combines history’s lessons of this 1638 estate with modern minimal intervention techniques to create wines of cool, contemporary elegance. Le Domaine de Fontenille's Cuvée Fontenille wines are superb examples of the best of Provence, with our Makersvine exclusive allocation transported from Provence in temperature controlled shipping. Cuvée wines are blended from specially selected barrels or vats, with the Fontenille tier varietal fermentation in concrete vats and stainless steel tanks.
• Tasting

  Intense and seductive character, aroma of black cherry notes and spices of a beautiful Syrah from Fontenille's sunniest parcels.
• Makers Match

  Superb with relatively powerful dishes, roast lamb with thyme, roast duck, also perfect with desserts, black forest or fondant chocolate with red fruits.
• Awards

  

  Concours Vignerons Indépendants v 2014

• organic

• Minimal
  Sulphites