Winemaker Notes
Blend: 66% Cabernet Sauvignon, 33% Merlot, 1% Petit Verdot
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
This is a structured wine with fine tannins that will allow it to age. Black currant fruits and spice come together in a concentrated bond. The wine needs plenty of time, wait to drink until 2025. Editors’Choice.
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James Suckling
Lots of black licorice and blueberries with wet earth and mushrooms. Medium to full body, firm tannins and a savory finish. A blend of 66% cabernet sauvignon, 33% merlot and 1% petit verdot. Nicely done and underscoring the success of Listrac in the vintage.
Range: 91-92 -
Decanter
Intense cassis with black pepper spice, this has black chocolate shavings also, a pretty confident wine with high tannins. A touch soft through the mid palate but comes back on the finish. Good quality.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Exhibiting aromas of raspberries and currants mingled with loamy soil and pencil shavings, the 2019 Fourcas-Dupré is medium to full-bodied, with fine depth at the core lively acids, and fine, powdery tannins that assert themselves on the youthfully chewy finish. This is a very solid effort from this Listrac estate. Best after 2023.
One of the world’s most classic and popular styles of red wine, Bordeaux-inspired blends have spread from their homeland in France to nearly every corner of the New World. Typically based on either Cabernet Sauvignon or Merlot and supported by Cabernet Franc, Malbec and Petit Verdot, the best of these are densely hued, fragrant, full of fruit and boast a structure that begs for cellar time. Somm Secret—Blends from Bordeaux are generally earthier compared to those from the New World, which tend to be fruit-dominant.
One of the six appellations of the Haut-Medoc, Listrac has a gentle rise away from the Gironde River and contains some of the highest elevations of the Left Bank. While Cabernet Sauvignon dominates, its clay limestone soils are increasingly planted to Merlot.