2017 Château Figeac

Community Tasting Notes (15) Avg Score: 94.7 points

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  3/15/2024 - Sun_Ship Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Perfumed suggestions of rose stems, blueberries, roasted black cherries, ripe red berries and cinnamon toast. Floral and precise, with milk chocolate and smokey aromatics emerging. The breadth of palate is superb - firm, yet finely milled tannins fan out to reveal a core of blackberry pastille and rose-inflected fruits. Clean, airy and pure, with a touch of sweetness at the back-end. The finish is long and brings a lick of spice. With Iberico pork chops, girolles and truffle risotto. 95+

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  1/31/2024 - Ramonee Confit Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Sans hésiter, un des plus grands vins de 2017, bientôt buvable, il permettra d'attendre les fabuleux 2016-19-20 et 22

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  1/13/2024 - watcheslover Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Yields down 55%! Very Cabernet on the nose, liquorice, the palate is magnificent in depth and breadth, rich, tannic but without rusticity, long, with notes of graphite, miraculous in balance and class. There are few but it is a very great wine for the vintage.

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  11/21/2023 - beatles wrote: 94 Points

  Firm, vertical, dry, classic, chalky with notes of tobacco. Manly, but gentle, good spice here, some tannin. Wait five years. 94+
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  2/11/2023 - Cailles wrote: 95 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: On the nose lots of roasted and toasted aromas, ripe fruit but not too ripe. The palate shows the same traits, lots of toasty notes and slightly roasted fruit, but then with time more and more and more red berries, seductive red berries, chocolate notes, minerality and some earthy notes. A wall of fine tannins and well-integrated acidity and then this super light and airy texture. A true winner and so good to drink today. Is this strong performance of this wine in this vintage still a surprise if it happens so regularly with the 2017s?
  
  Decanting: Not decanted. No extensive decanting needed.

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