Château Fontebride AOC Sauternes SCE Chateau Haut Bergeron, 2019

Sauternes is famous for high-quality sweet dessert wines that are the result of its unique climate in late summer and fall which encourages the development of “noble rot.” Château Fontebride bouquet is a combination of fresh apples, cinnamon and smoke with some savoury mushroom character. On the palate, it is rich and sweet with good depth and youthful fruit. A bitter pithiness counterbalances the sweet mango flavours producing a dessert wine of great length and complexity which should cellar well. Fifty-year-old vines are cultivated in the commune of Bommes on gravelly soils over a clay subsoil. Successive passages through the vineyard to hand pick individual grapes affected by the “noble rot” were carried out.