Saint-Émilion · France

Château Fonroque

Vineyard blend

87 % Merlot
13 % Cabernet Franc

Area under vine at the estate, from its technical sheet — it does not change from one vintage to the next. Each vintage’s blend, by contrast, departs from it: that figures on its own page.

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The wine

At Château Fonroque, the combination of Cabernet Franc plots and limestone in most of the soils gives the wine elegance, length and structure, balancing the natural, generous roundness of Merlot.

Terroir

Limestone plateau and limestone-clay hillside.

Estate figures

17.6 haArea

2023 vintage figures

50 hl/haYield
77,500 bottlesProduction

Alcohol, yield and vine age are those of the 2023 vintage; they vary from year to year. Only the area above stays stable from one vintage to the next.

Vintages on record

Vintage	Best score	Vintage character	Technical sheet
2023	—	Mildew cost a good share of the harvest; what was brought in is early, fresh and promising.	PDF français · PDF anglais
2022	—	The extreme drought was absorbed by the clays: a sun-driven concentration, but without the expected harshness.	PDF français · PDF anglais
2021	—	Frost followed by a cool summer brought back classic wines, lighter and more taut, to be drunk in their youth.	PDF français · PDF anglais
2020	—	An early, dry year gave splendid wines, which many rank above 2018.	PDF français · PDF anglais
2019	—	A hot end of summer on rehydrated soils gave a rare balance between freshness and substance.	PDF anglais
2018	—	After the mildew, the heat concentrated a small harvest: rich, ripe and very dense wines.	fiche · PDF
2017	—	Frost struck the slope-foot vines: the plateaus saved the day, and the vintage must be judged plot by plot.	fiche · PDF
2016	—	A dry summer on full water reserves gave fresh, deep wines, magical on the asteria limestone.	fiche · PDF
2011	—	A warm spring followed by a wet summer gave classic wines, best drunk relatively young.	—

“Best score”: the highest score recorded for this wine, with its source. “Character”: the overall reading of the year across the appellation, which an estate may depart from.

All technical sheets

The estate’s grand vin and other cuvées, vintage by vintage: VinCod sheet and printable PDF.

Château FonroqueGrand vinRouge · 3 vintages

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Texts and documents 2023

The texts below copy in one click for your product sheets, catalogues and social channels. The printable sheet condenses the whole page onto a single A4 page.

Technical sheet PDF · French Technical sheet PDF · English

Visuals

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