1998 Château Faugères

Community Tasting Notes (62) Avg Score: 89.4 points

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  4/27/2024 - StefanAkiko Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Feeling a little sorry for those who drank this beauty too early or who don't appreciate mature Bdx.
  
  Auction bargain!
  
  Colour: mature Bdx with dark red depth.
  Nez: deep, rich Bdx earth with dark fruits and that beloved sumi ink with a bit of black olive brine.
  Mun: Now we're talking! An opulent, fully fledged Bdx in its early drinking window. Good tannins, fantastic acidity and mouth feeling. Perfectly fits the classic warm vintage Pauillac description (minus the black currants) with cedar wood, tobacconist, horse saddle and fruit that is darker more than red.
  
  A brilliant wine that delivered fantastic pleasures on a late Friday evening, after a rather long week...
  
  Not getting a higher score:
  Complexity level is not higher than this. The finish isn't longer than it is. The wine is towards brutish rather than composed and refined.
  
  BTW:
  The classic Bdx descriptions are flawed and died around the 80'ies.

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  1/21/2024 - parkline_wine Likes this wine: 92 Points

  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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  4/15/2023 - jdp89 Likes this wine:

  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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  3/10/2023 - empire80 Likes this wine: 92 Points

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

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  2/18/2023 - Julian Marshall Likes this wine: 92 Points

  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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