Chateau Fourcas Hosten Listrac 1999 Region_Cape of Good Hope and Telluride

and Telluride

most of it worked by hand out of necessity as much as principle

sits over gneiss eroded out of the Alps by glaciers

ensuring that the purity of the fruit and unique qualities of the terroir are expressed in each wine

The kind of red that turns a winter dinner into an occasion

Chateau Fourcas Hosten Listrac 1999 Region_Cape of Good Hope and TellurideThe Land Listrac Mdoc is one of the lesser known villages of the Mdoc, set back from the Gironde estuary on the higher ground of the peninsula. It is cooler and later ripening than the famous gravel communes nearer the river, and its calling card is limestone: Fourcas Hosten sits on a bank of clay limestone alongside deep Pyrenean gravel, an unusual pairing for the Mdoc. The limestone holds freshness and acidity while the gravel drives ripeness in the