Château Fourcas-Borie Listrac-Médoc 2016

Bruno Borie’s mother’s family is one of the oldest winemaking families in the Central Médoc. Born Monique Rochette, she was raised at Listrac’s Château Ducluzeau.

The estate had been in her family for several generations and is only a stone’s throw from Fourcas-Borie, an estate spread over approximately 45 hectares, 35 hectares are planted with vines of 25-year-old in average. Bruno Borie began managing Fourcas-Borie in 2009. 

The Fourcas-Borie vineyard dominates the tiny Listrac hamlets of Fourcas and Tris. Sitting on a gentle rise, at 45 meters (150 feet) above sea level, Listrac is on the limit of Landes County border. The word Listrac literally means edge, from the French word lisière. It overlooks the Médoc peninsula and is only 25 kilometres from the Atlantic Ocean; when the wind blows from the west you can smell the ocean. Here, more than half the soil is composed of gravel on a clay base and the rest is clay-siliceous soils on a base of limestone. The soils add a mineral note to the rich fruit tastes and aromas, giving Fourcas-Borie a very special range of flavors.