2010 Château Faugères

Community Tasting Notes (80) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  4/6/2024 - hebill wrote:

  Still drinking nicely. PnP. Just showing a bit of age around the rim. Forest floor and mushroom on the nose. Dark fruit, good acidity, dusty tannins.

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  3/30/2024 - egoya Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Mature, almost full bodied, hedonistic and enjoyable, but not overly complex: Faugeres as you know and like it.

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  3/10/2024 - Sperls Likes this wine: 95 Points

  This wine was in a really good spot and everything I would hope for in an aged claret. Dark purple, still dense w no real bricking signs. Amazing perfumed nose and excellent balance of dark fruit w some sweetness and plums and spice, integrated but still healthy tannins, some cigar and cedar, chewy mouthfeel and long finish. Feels like it’s at a great peak and will hold here for a while.

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  2/18/2024 - aerosol Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Got a glass here now and the nose is full of mint and ceder. Needs more time to open, but the fruit is there. It should have more time to open so it can soften a bit. I get a palate of unsweetened cola, dark berries, and some tart and chalkiness in the finish. Maybe it could be laid down for a little longer or decanted for much longer. It's not a 'go to' wine for me from Bordeaux, but it's not bad, but not great.

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  11/19/2023 - Ryan8008 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Beautiful pale-ish ruby red. Not much bricking to speak of, but a little sediment shaken loose.
  
  Nose is very expressive - ripe, fruity and hedonistic. Waves of baked plum, blackcurrant, cherry sauce. Fruit is king here, but is framed by a nice enough graphite and gravel. Eventually unfurls into a bit of violet that I love so much in aged Bordeaux.
  
  Palate is satiny from the high alcohol, tannins mostly melted into the wine but still a bit chalky. Acid not very high. Alcohol is warming and a little bitter. Flavours are more towards ripe red fruit, cherry, vanilla and a bit of currant. Concentration pretty high, finish a bit short.
  
  Pretty good aged claret. A bit ripe for my taste, and alcohol a bit high, but aromas are nice and concentration is good. Went nicely with lamb chops. Would not buy from this chateau again, but wouldn't turn down a glass from it either. Can this get better? Concentration of fruit is there, but I don't know about the structure. It's a toss up!

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