Chateau Fourcas Borie

Now I have come across wines from Listrac with Fourcas in their name, notably Chateau Fourcas-Hosten. One of my first posts about that estate was in an interesting match we had with its millenial vintage with crayfish bisque. I had heard of (but probably not tasted) Fourcas Dupre, but this latter Fourcas Borie was certainly new to me. I had just bought a bottle to try with some short ribs of beef last weekend. Now it is often the case the chateaux sharing part of their name, originally form a larger estate which was subsequently divided and then maybe the derivative etstate then undergoing further change.

This is not always the case as we can see with Cos d'Estournel and Cos Labory. This seems also to be the case with the Fourcas estates in Listrac, although it was only mentioned in the Website of Fourcas Dupre. There was an area in the Medoc caloled the Fourcas plateau in the late 18th century and various people grew wine there, of which the Fourcas Hosten and Fourcas Dupre estates were well known as top wines from Listrac by 1876. As for Fourcas Borie (which was previously known as Fourcas-Dumont), it was formed by combining the Clos du Fourcas and the Moulin de Bourg (the second wine goes under this name or Hautegrave-tris) estates. Now part of the portfolio of Bruno Borie of Ducru-Beaucaillou, the wine is garnering good response from the wine press.