Chateau Fontenil 2000
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Jeb Dunnuck
The 2000 Le Defi De Fontenil is also mature, with impressive purity in its darker currants, smoked tobacco, graphite, and leather-laced aromas and flavors. As with the 2001, it's fully mature, with medium to full bodied richness and sweet, integrated tannins, and should hold nicely going forward for 4-6 years, with a gradual decline thereafter.
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In 1986, they acquired a few hectares in the commune of Saillans, which they called chateau Fontenil, after the name of one of the plots in the vineyard. The renovation work on the installations lasted until 1999; the vinification cellars, the barrel cellar and the storage cellar were all equipped with high-performance material.
Perfectly organized, tradition remains alongside new technologies: small stainless steel and wooden vats, double sorting table, barrel stock of which 60% are renewed each year and where malolactic fermentation is carried out – yield control from pruning the vines until green harvesting- sustainable viticulture, manual harvesting plot by plot using small crates.
The vines are on a slope with a southerly aspect, looking down on the river isle – a tributary of the Dordogne – and the town of Lilbourn. This magnificent setting frames an estate whose wines are among those which have enhanced the reputation of the Fronsac appellation.