Community Tasting Notes 61

• parkline_wine Likes this wine: 92 points

  January 21, 2024 - 92 for this easily, improved steadily over the course of 1.5 hours of air, peaked at 1.5 hours. Great showing, balance of still nice black fruits in the forefront, but with some good earthiness, smoke, and tobacco framing the notes. Some lightening at the rim, but it could go another 5y I think. Good+ to very good value.

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• jdp89 Likes this wine:

  April 15, 2023 - Double decanted an hour before drinking. Great mature claret, not especially notable but tasty.
  
  Ruby with pink bricked edges.
  
  Nose is old Bordeaux, with black cherry; plum; leather; cigar box; green Virginia tobacco; dirt; pencil; mocha/coffee bean; library book vanilla. Tiny bit barnyard but receded.
  
  Palate has mid body; high mid minus acidity; mid tannin; mid-long finish. More fruit coming through, bit plummy, bit cherry liqueur; bit blackberry; leather/dirt; cigar; general old Bordeaux flavors.
  
  Best about 3 hours after opening, indeed put on a great deal of weight, so decant for a while.

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• empire80 Likes this wine: 92 points

  March 10, 2023 - Best bottle yet. Quite muscular and structured, still some black fruit, cedar, graphite and a hint of meat.

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• Julian Marshall Likes this wine: 92 points

  February 18, 2023 - I took a punt on a couple of bottles at auction recently because the price was low (30€) and I'm glad that I did.
  
  Quite a fresh nose of dark cherry, strawberry and blackcurrant, then a medium-bodied mouthful of spicy blackcurrant and slightly jammy cherry, joined midpalate by notes of wild strawberry and finishing with a flourish of plums and cherries. Much more youthful than expected and really rather good.
  
  Five years ago I thought this was on the wane, which just shows how much I know. In its youth, this was rather over-exuberant, with very forward, sherbet-like fruit, but it has settled down remarkably well.
  
  Not a great wine by any means, but very enjoyable on its own or with food. I didn't decant, but next time I will because it did loosen up somewhat after several hours.

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• Seth Rosenberg wrote: 91 points

  April 21, 2022 - From small capped bottle. Big bold bdx. Spicy woody black cherry, some menthol or camphor? Spicy and dark fruit on the palate. Finish is a little bitter but quite good for the level. Nose - 5/6, Palate - 4.5/6, Finish - 5/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1/2 = 15.5/20.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1998
• Type Red
• Producer Château Faugères
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Libournais
• Appellation St. Émilion Grand Cru

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