Château Faugères - Saint-Emilion - Grand Cru
84 points - The Wine Advocate
92 points - The Wine Advocate
92 points - The Wine Advocate
92 points - The Wine Advocate
92 points - The Wine Advocate
Château Faugères - Saint-Emilion - Grand Cru
84 points - The Wine Advocate
92 points - The Wine Advocate
92 points - The Wine Advocate
92 points - The Wine Advocate
92 points - The Wine Advocate
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The 2019 Faugères is a full-bodied, brutally extracted wine that exhibits a somewhat lactic nose of rich black fruits, berry liqueur and new oak. Mouthpuckeringly tannic, it lacks charm or generosity despite its heady levels of ripeness.
The 2016 Faugères is composed of 80% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon aged in 50% new and 50% one-year-old barrels for 15 months. Deep garnet-purple coloured, it features baked blueberries, stewed black plums and black cherry compote with hints of spearmint, cigar box and new leather. The palate is medium to full-bodied and laced with black fruit and savoury layers with a chewy frame, finishing long with a fragrant earth lift.
The 2015 Faugères is a blend of 80% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon aged for 15 months in French oak, 50% new. Medium to deep garnet-purple in colour, it has a nose of baked plums, warm cherries, and black berries with touches of meat and fried spices. The full-bodied mouth is rich, opulent, and spicy with firm, velvety tannins and lovely freshness lifting the finish.
The 2014 Faugères still has bundles of red plum and juniper berry on the nose, if anything even more generous than when I tasted it a few months ago. The palate is medium bodied with fine tannin, superb structure and well judged acidity. It merges with more black fruit towards the finish and has palpable energy on the finish—still excellent.
The estate’s most abundant cuvee of about 5,000+ cases is the 2010 Faugères, a blend of 85% Merlot with the rest mostly Cabernet Franc and just a small quantity of Cabernet Sauvignon, all bottled unfined and unfiltered.
Tiny yields of 22 hectolitres per hectare and a late harvest that went into the third week of October have resulted in a stunningly concentrated wine with notes of crushed rock, blue and dark red/black fruits, some camphor, incense and, for lack of a better description, a smell of acacia flowers.
A sexy, opulent, and full-bodied wine that seems to have more in common with the 2009s than most 2010s, this wine can be drunk out of the gate, but will certainly hit its stride in 3-4 years and last for up to 15.
Type: |
Red |
Country: |
France |
Region: |
Bordeaux |
Appellation: |
Saint-Emilion |
Producer: |
Château Faugères |
Grapes/Blend: |
Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc |
Style: |
Grand Cru |
ABV: |
14.5% |
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