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Wine Description
The Story
The Sauternes produced by Château de Fargues is the result of outstanding gifts of nature and the motivation – one might even say the stubbornness – of a family devoted to fine wine, and an attentive, enthusiastic winemaking team.
It takes four years to produce wine at Fargues, and work is constantly being done simultaneously on four vintages at any one time.
This is how the refinement and delicious taste sensations are procured at Château d...
Wine Information
The 2011 harvest
To paraphrase Verlaine: "Do your job, old sun, to help make the bread and wine that nourish men with the bounty of the earth, and be sure to give them an honest glass laughing with divine spirit reapers, grape pickers, your time has come". This time has indeed come at Château de Fargues! Making the most of our terroir and our vines, under a typically seasonal sky for Sauternes with alternating sun and mist, the Château ...