Chateau de Fargues

Château de Fargues is a French wine estate in the Sauternes district of Bordeaux. It makes a single archetypal Sauternes sweet white wine – a classic blend of Sémillon and Sauvignon Blanc – from its vineyards around the village of Fargues at the very center of the appellation. Château de Fargues comprises 17 hectares (42 acres) of vineyards planted atop clay-gravel soils overlying a layer of clay and hardpan soil. On average, these vines are 35 years old, with only those aged seven years and over acting as the source of the estate's grand vin.

Very rich and powerful on the nose and palate, very 'roasted' but with a slight deficit in complexity of primary aromas compared to the very best. A rich, classically constituted wine that will evolve slowly but surely in the bottle.