1994 Château Figeac

Community Tasting Notes (20) Avg Score: 87.9 points

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  2/22/2024 - Harley1199 wrote:

  By the glass. With thirty years on, time to beat those on the right bank from a tremendously uneven vintage. All bottles open six hours before tasting. Fully ready, surely peaking at the moment, a delicious mix of spicy notes and sweet fruit on the nose. On the palate it is more discreet, balanced but short and without any tension. Abrupt finish. Slightly bitter aftertaste.
  
  Por copas. Con treinta años encima, hora de dar una batida a los de la margen derecha en una añada tremendamente desigual. Todas las botellas abiertas seis horas antes de la cata. Totalmente preparado, seguramente en momento álgido, una deliciosa mezcla de notas especiadas y de fruta dulce en nariz. Al paladar es más discreto, equilibrado aunque corto y sin tensión alguna. Final abrupto. Retrogusto ligeramente amargo.

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  12/29/2023 - Sean Tay wrote: 89 Points

  1994 is an challenging vintage and I don’t get to try enough wines from 1994. The notes I got are barnyard, forest floor, spices, toast, charr wood, cedar. Mostly tertiary notes. Drink up, will not improve.

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  2/11/2023 - Cailles wrote: 86 Points

  20 Vintages of Figeac (1985-2019): All wines tasted blind. A few observations: 1) Compared many other right bank peers, Figeac never fell into the trap of producing very high ripeness/high extraction wines. The low(er) Merlot content plays a role, but the wines clearly speak of a conscious decision of not going there. But in the 2000s the fruit profile is darker and only more recent vintages go back to the beautiful bright red fruit. 2) The hype is real: The level of greatness this winery achieves since the 2015 vintage is stunning. The complexity, delineation, purity and textural depth are miles ahead of what the company produced before. 3) Figeac shows that it is among the 15 best wines produced in Bordeaux today and considering the En Primeur prices, probably only Montrose and Pichon Lalande have an equally good value proposition in this top group. 4) Winner was the 2019 (97pts) with an unmatched purity and depth, ahead of the 2015 (96pts) and a stunning 2018 (96pts) which tells a lot about how well they coped with the hot vintage.
  
  TN: Dark fruit, quite ripe, almost candied on the nose. Some smoky minerality too. Intriguing. On the palate this shows fine, fresh and round, fine tannins but not much substance. A bit of fruit, herbs and minerality but not not much more. With time the fruit and sweetness go away completely. At first around 90 pts, then less and less with time. A rather weak vintage… but that is hardly a surprise.
  
  Decanting: Not decanted, decanting is not advised, best right after opening.

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  2/6/2023 - Collector1855 wrote: 90 Points

  Chateau Figeac - 35 year vertical tasted blind 1985-2019: This was a bit bipolar, quite ripe with lovely herbal notes on the one hand but then the mid mouth was in need for some more stuffing.

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  11/23/2019 - vinojones wrote: 89 Points

  30 min decant,dark ruby red;initial nose very herbaceous later more black berries but still a herbal note, sage?; med body but great with lamb chops; nice body but , while not weak, would seem thin to a new world cab drinker; nice med long finish on the sage/rosemary side of things.
  Has plenty of time to do the tertiary, leather/cigar box thing

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