The wines

Wine, like friendship, deserves a lot of attention and consideration. The wines of Chateau de Fontenille deserve to be tasted, commented on and shared with friends and family. Thank you for honouring them.

Château de Fontenille

This is our jewel: very rare Semillon vines that survived the 1956 frost, the recent re-discovery of the Sauvignon Gris from the Loire, soils for a powerful Cadillac, young plants of petit Verdot and Malbec..

Mastery, precision, to please you.

Rouge Tendre

Raspberry and coconut, very tasty!

Rouge Gourmand

Blackcurrant and violet, juicy!

Rouge Passion

Licorice and truffle, silky !

Cadillac
Côtes de Bordeaux

Structured and full-bodied

Entre-
deux-Mers

Lively, light and intense

Les Survivantes
Bordeaux blanc sec

Superb balance

Bordeaux
Clairet

Balance and character

Belle rosée

Mineral and balanced

Crémant
de Bordeaux

Freshness and finesse

Fontenille ‘s Coucoute

« These are Macha’s choices, pet nat, petit Verdot, Malbec, vin gris… She is young, she challenges me and I like that ». Reserved and assertive, my daughter is learning the ropes in the winery. She is consciously discovering, step by step, the management of an estate and maybe she will take over… her life projects will guide her..

To surprise you, with audacity…

Contre-pied

Balance and character

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Je suis gris

Lively, light and intense

Gris

Entre-deux-Mers - Sauvignon gris : While the General was making his comeback in May 1958, while others were drafting the constitution of the Fifth Republic, some were counting the last vines of Sauvignon Gris: 10 hectares, or only 14 small soccer fields, remained in France. Its supporters then identified and defended it. Still rare in absolute terms, it makes up a third of our vineyard. Its region of origin flatters it: mature and dashing, it is irresistibly greedy.
Surface : 1 ha
Terroir : Silt and Gravel.
Average age : 15 years
Production : 4 000 bottles
Blend : 100 % Sauvignon gris.
Vinification and maturation : Skin contact maceration for 24 hours. Fermentation at 18°C. Aged on lees.

Je suis gris

Lively, light and intense

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Rubis Cub

Freshness and finesse

Red

The story of a red wine that tastes like a white wine : Rubis, is the color of the wine and CUB is that it can be drunk « Comme Un Blanc », like a white. We have a terroir that naturally gives fruity wines like Thiols for whites. So why not highlight this type of aroma in the merlots since they also contain them.
The principle: Pick the Merlots when they are at the "peak of fresh fruit". Then adopt the same vinification principles as for our dry white wines: a long cold skin maceration of 3 weeks to get the thiols, these aromas whose descriptors remind us of grapefruit and passion fruit. No malolactic fermentation to keep its freshness and bottling in spring after the natural winter clarification. Surprising and confusing result guaranteed!

Surface : 0.36 ha
Terroir : Silt and Gravel.
Average age : 30 years
Production : 3 000 bottles
Blend : 25 % Sauvignon blanc, 75 % Merlot Noir.
Vinification and maturation : Cold maceration (4°) for 15 days. Pressing then fermentation at low temperature (18°C).

Rubis Cub

Freshness and finesse

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Cabernet Franc

Franc et Sans Soufre

Red

We only used Cabernet Franc for its drinkability and frankness. It is not really a coincidence that this grape variety stopped here on its journey from the Spanish Basque country to the Loire! We made short macerations. We were looking for fruit and colour only. Please note that we didn’t want any pearliness or woodiness at the end of the vinification. We wanted juice,fermented, but nothing but juice. The Franc et Sans Soufre brightens up thetables of wine lovers in search of subtle and light red wines. Vinified and agedwithout sulphur with great care and attention, it expresses aromas of raspberry and violet.
Surface : 4 ha
Terroir : Silt and Graves.
Average age : 20 years
Production : 24 000 bottles
Blend : 100 % Cabernet Franc.
Vinification : Vinified respecting the fruit and without added sulphur.

Cabernet Franc

Franc et Sans Soufre

“If you have built castles in the clouds, your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

Henry David Thoreau, precursor of forestry and ecology from 1840.
To read again carefully, two centuries later!

The wines