2012 | Chateau Fonreaud | Clos des Demoiselles

Clos des Demoiselles is a family-owned estate covering 42 hectares in Listrac-Médoc and 9 hectares in Moulis-en-Médoc. The 2012 is predominantly Merlot with Cabernet Sauvignon and offers classic notes of dark cherry, plum, cassis, spring flowers and earth.

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“Fonréaud”, formerly “Font-réaux”, means “Royal Fountain”. Twelfth century, the king of England and the husbands of Eleanor d’Aquitaine, stopped to drink at a fresh spring.The current cellars were built in the seventeenth century, and overhauled over time. The château replaced the original farmhouse, when in 1850 Henri Le Blanc de Mauvezin, then owner, decided to build it.For a long time this château remains unfinished. In 1962, Léo Chanfreau, winemaker in Algeria, returned with his family in Metropolitan France. He then visited many estates and fell in love with Fonréaud. Everything has to be rebuilt: the vineyard has only 17 hectares in bad condition.The vat room has many wooden vats out of use.Léo enthusiastically embarks on this new challenge. He replanted the vineyard, built the concrete vats that we still use in part today. He undertakes major work in the château whose south wing is rebuilt stone by stone.

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