2014 Château Fonbadet

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 87.6 points

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  3/21/2024 - Chris Giammona Likes this wine: 89 Points

  This wine is a very good value for a Bordeaux - cherry, chocolate, herbs, and some hints of tobacco and earthiness. Decent finish and medium bodied wine. In it prime drinking window - would drink now.

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  6/15/2018 - redwhiteandrich Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Thankfully the Michel Rolland consultation does not show up here. This vintage may be the last to get an old world style wine before this estate goes wayward.
  
  Dark fruit, tannic with refreshing acidity, give it some more time.

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  6/6/2018 - mwneil Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Good stuff, dark color, nice bouquet, still a bit tannic but great fruit, low alcohol but lots of flavor, should develop nicely, excellent structure with good complexity, would drink again, drank with London broil with veggies.

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  2/22/2018 - Dionysusx Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Dark cherry, black raspberry and cocoa nose leads to leather, tobacco, cherry-laced dusty herbs and a bit of vanilla and gravel. Slowly opening up to become much brighter. This wine should be more well-rounded in a few years. Great value.

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  12/21/2017 - t_moderne wrote: 80 Points

  Pop and pour. Tasted without food and followed for about 3 hours.
  Deep maroon color.
  Nose shows some fun (merde) and some ripe plum; hint of cedar.
  Looking for an inexpensive Pauillac, I picked this up at Costco for about $27.
  There is a fair amount of funk here. Little hint of cedar but missing that cigar box/lead pencil, cassis, tobacco that I expect from a Pauillac.
  Shows some cassis and blackberry notes, but with an off-putting funky element. Some green bean notes as well.
  Drinkable but not enjoyable.

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