Château de Fesles

Château de Fesles is at Thouarcé, south of Angers, in the Anjou wine landscape. Its present house and park were established in the eighteenth century. The estate relates a much older history of wine growing, referring to medieval documentation of Bonnezeaux; that history should not be used to date the surviving house to the eleventh century. The Boivin family developed the vineyard during the nineteenth century, and a substantial restoration was undertaken in 1991 under Gaston Lenôtre. The estate’s account records the Helfrich family’s ownership from 2008. Bonnezeaux, a sweet white wine associated with this landscape, is central to Fesles’s identity. The estate advertises visits to the vineyards and barrel cellar by reservation.