Area under vines: 18.50 hectares
Soils: clayey-limestone
Average age of the vines: 30 years
Production: 55 000 bottles a year
Ageing: 18 to 22 months in 65% new oak barrels
Planting density: 6000 foots per hectares
Grape varieties:
Second wine: Closerie de Fourtet
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The Clos Fourtet ’98 is now reaching 15 years old. It offers a lovely ripe, rounded blackberry, mulberry, Chinese tea and incense-scented bouquet that is now fully open. The palate has a sense of femininity on the entry with ebullient red berries, a hint of kirsch and mint towards the ravishing finish. Lovelya such panache. Tasted December 2012.
Bright red-ruby. Highly perfumed nose combines cherry, raspberry, currant and nutmeg. Dense and silky but also bright and nicely delineated; mint and spice notes contribute to its juicy quality. Finishes with slightly dry but even tannins and very good persistence.
