2016 Château Fombrauge

Community Tasting Notes (57) Avg Score: 90.6 points

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  1/29/2024 - BuckeyeBenS Likes this wine: 91 Points

  I was quite pleased with this one. Beautiful nose that smelled fresh and lively, with dark red cherries and more softly of blueberry pie. I was excited. The palate was still a bit tight, though it opened with air, showing mostly dark red cherries and a little gravel. The tannins stayed semi-firm throughout the evening. Really liked what it was doing alongside my bison ribeye. You can enjoy this now with air, but I think it may be a point or two better with a little more cellar time.

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  1/5/2024 - Mdhealey Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Surprisingly good.

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  12/15/2023 - TheSagePalate wrote: 87 Points

  A nice garnet red in color, acid is medium, tannins medium plus, alcohol high, finish long.
  
  Aromas are muffled by alcohol, maybe the bottle didn't age well, not sure, but not much here.
  
  On the palate, jammy notes of boysenberry and a watermelon finish. It didn't present like a right bank Bordeaux at all. Fairly decent drink ability, but a bit sad by how this wine showed.

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  10/9/2023 - Haggis Likes this wine: 92 Points

  I don't have time for a detailed review, as I am in the midst of moving to a new home, with all its business and hassles. I opened this bottle to make the packing and moving more "enjoyable." Good choice! Lovely dark fruit (cherry), dark cocoa, and lush tannin. Drinking very nicely now (better on day 2), but a few more years will be rewarding.

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  10/8/2023 - Sheepdog88 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  For years now I have read a lot of reviews, drank a lot of wine and bought way more.. all that to say I’m intimidated by people’s beautifully crafted reviews and well thought out descriptions. But I digress..
  I coravined a glass of fombrauge and out of the bottle it was very fragrant with blueberry, leather and a little bit of that oak char that translates to tobacco. A quick sip and swirl revealed much of the same but the blueberry gave way to raspberry and bright red fruits.. The flavor is there but it didn’t last noticeably long. It’s sort if pushed aside by the heat (14.5%), but for this price point, it doesn’t detract from an otherwise very enjoyable wine.
  A few hours later the acidity had sort of overtaken some of the red fruit flavor profile which was now muted.
  Sampled again 24 hours later, and the acidic spiral had continued. With some swirls the raspberry comes back but it’s hidden behind that tangy acid wall.
  My question to the CT community is, does that progression over 24 hours indicate the window for aging potential is closing? Or should I not correlate the two..
  Conditions while the glass grabbed air was roughly 61 degrees, sitting in the basement.
  Also, I don’t know what I’m taking about.. but I can tell you it was a delicious wine out of the bottle and didn’t hold up over time with air.. 😂
  90/100 because there are too many wines with long finishes and creamy textures to score higher than this, but don’t take that as a bad score. I haven’t quite figured out if people score based on their expectations of what a $30/$75/$150 wine “should” be, or if it’s all on the same 100 point scale.. I settled on this being a 90.
  Comments are welcomed, be nice..
  Cheers!

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