Château
Château La Fortune
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Capitals mark the stressed syllable. “ew” is “ee” said with rounded lips. The French r comes from the back of the throat. The recording is the reference.
A pocket of
- Appellation
Margaux - Classification
- Cru Bourgeois Supérieur
- Châteaux
- See it among the 629
The château
La Fortune is small by any
An old building was turned into its working cellar, with an air-conditioned vat room of small temperature-controlled vats, so each parcel can be made on its own, and a separate cellar for aging; the wine spends 14 to 18 months in barrel. The Société Fermière des Grands Crus de France, part of the Grands Chais de France group, runs it, as it runs
At a glance
- Appellation
Margaux - Classification
- Cru Bourgeois in 2020; Cru Bourgeois Supérieur in 2025
- Operator
- Société Fermière des Grands Crus de France, Grands Chais de France
- Vineyard
- 3.9 hectares
- Soil
- Fine gravel and pebbles over clay, gravel and limestone Terroir of
Margaux → - Grapes
- Merlot 74%, Cabernet Sauvignon 26%
- Cellar
- Small temperature-controlled vats, parcel by parcel; 14 to 18 months in barrel
- The house
- Also
Château du Cartillon ,Haut-Médoc
Sources
- Institutions
- CPGC,
Château La Fortune ; Alliance des Crus Bourgeois duMédoc :Château La Fortune , the classification of 2025, the classification of 2020
Revised September 23, 2026. How I choose sources
The record
The 1855 Classification was published on April 18, 1855, drawn up by the brokers of the Bordeaux exchange for the Exposition Universelle in Paris.
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