Chateau Nenin Fugue de Nenin Pomerol 2019 (750ml)

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Producer	Chateau Nenin
Country	France
Region	Bordeaux
Subregion	Pomerol
Varietal	Red Bordeaux Blend
Vintage	2019
Sku	13804
Size	750ml

 

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89

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93

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91

The Fugue de Nénin is a wine built on roundness and freshness, bearing the elegance of its terroir and the characteristics of its appellation.

88% Merlot, 12% Cabernet Franc

Fugue de Nénin is made from vines rooted in clay-sandy soils, which lend the wine an earlier-drinking style, along with fruit from young vines on the Pomerol plateau. In the context of the Pomerol appellation, where it is rare for an estate to exceed 10 hectares, Château Nénin represents a major surface: up to 32 hectares of vines in production. Consequently, its terroir includes all the diversity of soils that characterise Pomerol. It is mainly made up of Oligocene deposits covered with gravelly alluvial formations of the Dordogne; siliceous clays and gravels, quartz, granites, iron dross as well as basalt pebbles.

A soft, round wine with a creamy texture, showing berries with some chocolate and tile. It’s medium-bodied with a juicy, savory and cedary finish. Second wine of Nenin with 88% merlot. Hard not to drink now. Drink or hold.

The 2019 Fugue de Nenin comes from the 15 hectares on sandier terroir. Matured in 30% new oak, it has a straightforward dark cherry, raspberry and slightly figgy bouquet that gains intensity in the glass. The palate is rounded and supple on the entry and very smooth in texture, offering dark berry fruit mixed with black pepper and spice toward the long finish. This is a fine, quite voluptuous Fugue.

From sandier soils, the 2019 Fugue de Nenin is softer and suppler than the grand vin, offering up aromas of rich cherry and berry fruit, followed by a medium to full-bodied, melting and enveloping palate. It's an attractive Pomerol that is drinking well out of the gates. Anticipated Maturity: 2021-2035