Isabelle Fort

Isabelle Fort

Classy Right bank Bordeaux Winemaker


About Isabelle Fort

  • Isabelle Fort loves her job, she quotes Confucius...'Choose a job that you like and you will not have to work a single day of your life'
  • Isabelle's Ch La Fleur Grand Landes, is a Right bank Bordeaux of great class
  • She works hard and has given up the quiet life purely to seek an optimal quality whatever the vintage
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Isabelle's Story

"My family owned this estate before the French Revolution (1789) and I have always wanted to keep this asset. Therefore, I chose to do agricultural studies and obtained a National diploma of oenology in Bordeaux and have taught oenology and winegrowing for 10 years.

I love the diversity in my job, as Confucius the Chinese philosopher once said 'Choisissez un travail que vous aimez et vous n’aurez pas à travailler un seul jour de votre vie' or to translate 'Chose a job that you like and you will not have to work a single day of your life'

My Key Winemaking philosophies are patience, self-abnegation and abandonment, courage, love and listening. We are green because being a winegrower, it is being first and foremost a FARMER and keep sensible with common sense, we do not spoil the land because it MAKES US LIVE.

We green harvest leaving 8 bunches by plant Filtration and we maintaing regular racking to eliminate the lees, during the ageing and slight filtration before bottling for an optimal presentation of the wine

I couldn't do my job without my husband Jean-Philippe Fort (consultant-oenologist for over 70 great growths of Bordeaux) for his precious advice. I work hard and have given up a quiet life purely to seek an optimal quality whatever the vintage."


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Very smooth with a good finish.

Michael 22:16 12/10/2010 Comment

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Enjoyed this one, but the tannins felt quite green - I think it needs few more years.

Ross 21:23 19/09/2010 Comment

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Absolutely wonderful and compares well with more expensive St Emillion. Full of fruit and vanilla

Lesley 11:15 29/07/2010 Comment

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Ch La Fleur Grand Landes Montagne St Emilion 2007
4.5
A really smooth red!

Vaibhav 18:40 07/06/2010 Comment

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4 stars

A nice full body wine with strong blackcurrent flavours and smooth tannins. Worth buying again.

Vaibhav 07:40 07/06/2010 Comment

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