http://dedaluswinegroup.com/wine Building a better wine community, one glass at a time... Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:00:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 http://dedaluswinegroup.com/wine/2009/07/02/chateau-fonguillon-killer-bordeaux-for-under-20-bucks/ http://dedaluswinegroup.com/wine/2009/07/02/chateau-fonguillon-killer-bordeaux-for-under-20-bucks/#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:08:58 +0000 Jason http://dedaluswinegroup.com/wine/?p=397 2005  Château  Fonguillon L’Enclos.   Here is a straight-from-the-shoulder Bordeaux at a reasonable price.  It is a merlot-based wine, frank and unadorned.  It is made in AOC Montagne St-Emilion which is the largest satellite of the august St. Emilion region.
L’Enclos smells of leather and brass.  The taste is dark and not sweet with a tannic undertow.  The wine is pleasantly rough around the edges.   There is a little bitter chocolate at the end as the wine becomes more dilute in your mouth.  Because it is a merlot, it is less angular and forceful than a cabernet.  This one is still close to the earth — more jacquerie than premier cru.
This is a wine made to serve with dinner on a week night.   I tried it with ribs, grilled chicken, and barbecued beef — all fine.  Drinking it with chicken was a bit shameless, but who was watching?  I liked it best perhaps with pizza because it stood up so well to sausage and onion.
Dedalus offers this sturdy child of the French soil for $14.75
Tuta 6/26/09

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