2003 Château Figeac

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  5/1/2022 - DrZett wrote: 90 Points

  🇫🇷 2003 Vieux Château Certan 🇫🇷 Lots of tertiary notes, ripe red berries, leather, sweet tobacco. Medium complexity, great balance. Drink up soon. 91/100 💵~200
  
  🇫🇷 2003 Château Figeac 🇫🇷 Violets, dark plum, some meaty notes. Good complexity. A little too hot. Finish is a bit short. Drink now. 90/100 💵~200
  
  🇫🇷 2003 Château Angelus 🇫🇷 Beautiful complexity and a lot of fruit power left. Grippy tannins and and super long finish. At least another 10 great years left. 94/100 💵~400
  
  🇫🇷 2003 Château Cos d’Estournel 🇫🇷 Nice soft tertiary notes and lots of dark berries. Fantastic depth and structure. Powerful body. Long finish. In a great spot now. 95/100 💵~230
  
  🇫🇷 2003 Château Montrose 🇫🇷 Ripe strawberries, cherries and wet ivy. Velvety tannins. Fantastic complexity and a great balance. Feels quite fresh and young, lots of good years ahead. 96/100 💵~230
  
  🇫🇷 2003 Château Haut-Bailly 🇫🇷 Soft sweet notes in the nose. Alcohol is too hot and covering the fruit notes. Medium complexity, feels a little unbalanced. Drink now. 89/100 💵~100
  
  🇫🇷 2003 Château Mouton Rothschild 🇫🇷 Great dark red fruits, some dry leather and tobacco - beautiful ripeness. Warm and velvety tannins. Fantastic complexity and length. In a perfect spot now. 96/100 💵~ 600
  
  🇫🇷 2003 Château Lafite Rothschild 🇫🇷 Fantastic nose and palate with lots of elegant dark berries, tobacco leafs and lots of mineral style notes. Silky tannins. Very elegant structure. Incredible balance and complexity. Endless finish. At least another two great decades ahead. 97/100 💵~ 1.100

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  6/13/2020 - TheWineMonkey wrote: 89 Points

  The wine is clear, the colour is garnet tawny with a hint of red and brown on the rim. On the nose are red fruits, leather and game and a hint of graphite/pencil lead.
  
  On the palate slightly astringent, there is a juxtaposed combination of vegetative notes - bell pepper, stewed strawberries & cherries. Fresh for the vintage with reasonable acidity and slightly bitter and chewy tannins. The length was nothing special.
  
  I enjoyed the wine, went very well with lamb and vegetables.
  
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  Initially I had detected quite predominate notes of pencil lead on the nose. Interestingly I had picked rosemary prior to tasting and put this effect down to the rosemary.
  
  Paid £37 for this wine back in 2008. I am not sure I would be willing to pay the current market price for this wine!

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  1/24/2020 - forceberry wrote: 94 Points

  The indicative Figeac blend is Cabernet Franc (35%), Cabernet Sauvignon (35%) and Merlot (30%). 13% alcohol. Tasted blind.
  
  Somewhat developed, dark-toned and rather opaque cherry red color with an evolved brick hue. The nose feels quite ripe and very attractive with aromas of wild strawberries, some herbaceous leafy notes of Cabernets, a little bit of black cherry, light evolved notes of meat consommé, a hint of wizened dark berries and a sweet, liquourous touch of red fruits. The wine is moderately full-bodied, firm and structural on the palate with somewhat developed flavors of wizened blackcurrants, some meaty umami, a little bit of ripe dark fruits, light spicy notes of savory wood, a hint of herbaceous Cab character and a touch of stony minerality. Quite high in acidity with silky, textural medium tannins that slowly pile up on the gums. The finish is long, ripe and textural with gentle tannic grip and layered, complex flavors of juicy blackcurrants, some wizened plums, a little bit of savory wood spice, light gravelly mineral tones, a hint of meaty umami and a touch of dark chocolate bitterness.
  
  A very classy, sophisticated and harmonious Saint-Émilion with a remarkably Left-Bank feel for the region - a signature characteristic of Figeac. What struck me was how remarkably fresh, balanced and harmonious this wine was for a 2003. The wine certainly showed some ripeness, but not more so than any other somewhat warmer vintage. This is something very rare, since all too often the Bordeaux wines from the hot 2003 vintage have been sweet, raisiny and rather hot with either too soft from the lack of acidity or too tough from the extracted tannins. This didn't show any of those characteristics, coming across as a very poised and beautifully harmonious and well-proportioned claret. A real delight and probably the best 2003 Bdx I've had. Highly recommended.

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  9/21/2019 - Puteljen! Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Surprised at the luke-warm reviews this has here. Had it the other night at a friends place and really loved it. Decanted for about 3 hours.
  
  Intense nose of ripe cassis, boysenberries and strawberries mixed with five-spice, leather, roses and a hint of soy. Very complex and quite mesmerizing. On the palate surprisingly elegant for such a hot year. Intense, but not cloying at all. Even more spices - positively vosne-like. Fruit is ripe and more towards the red berry part of the spectrum than expected. Lovely mineral feeling as well. Long, sweet, spice-infused finish.
  
  I don’t drink Bordeaux too often, I’m a burghead, and perhaps that is why I like this wine so much. It has elegance and energy reminiscent of good Burg, but I imagine that for Bordeaux fans it might lack the power one would expect given its reputation and the vintage.

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  7/19/2019 - vvWine.ch wrote: 89 Points

  2003, Château Figeac, Saint-Emilion. Leuchtendes Rubin, jugendlicher Glanz. In der Nase tief, komplex, feinduftig, floral, zeigt Anflüge von Tee, kühlem Rauch, getrocknete Blüten, ein schönes Parfüm. Im Gaumen straff, mittlere Konzentration, strukturbetont, mit Druck, dabei aber ohne Schwere, die Frucht wirkt warm und reif, wird von feinen Gerbstoffen und einer gut eingebundenen, eher moderaten Säure getragen, endet mittellang auf eine feine Würze. Ein ausgewogener wenn auch nicht grosser Wein. Trinken bis 2026. 17.5 vvPunkte (89/100) vvWine.ch

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