2019 Château Fonréaud

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 89.7 points

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  1/14/2024 - Bradetti wrote: 91 Points

  Ripe sweet fruit (mainly blackcurrant). Still not in close down. Good value for the price.

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  12/23/2023 - Jshummelt Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Good value purchased from Costco for $15.
  N:Black fruits (plumb currant berry) with some hints of vanilla
  P: black currant and vegetal (bell pepper) two dominant flavors. Strong tannins that could use a few more years of age.

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  8/13/2023 - Motz wrote: 90 Points

  Strong representation of place. Blackcurrant, pyrazines, and mossy stream silt notes.
  
  Over extraction announces its presence on the attack, confirmed by noteworthy (biting) grittiness at the back and throughout the finish.
  
  There is substance here, along with generally very good balance, other than the extraction.
  
  It should evolve and hold through 2030 or so, after which, heavy sediment might be expected. 89-90.

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  5/28/2023 - stamperb Likes this wine: 87 Points

  Nose: Sweet cassis. Palate: Charred oak barrel, dark and ripe cherries, dry cassis; rounded tannins with a bit of sandy texture to them. A well-balanced, affordable ($17), and simple fruit-focused wine with some barrel influence; perhaps this will improve with more time. I'd suggest holding if you have some in your cellar.

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  9/19/2022 - despore Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Decant 4 hours
  A: deep ruby
  N: medium (+) intensity aromas of violet, green bell pepper, graphite, black currant leaf, blackcurrant, blueberry, vanilla, ripe black cherry
  P: dry, medium (+) acidity, high grippy tannins, medium body, high ABV, medium (+) intensity flavors - on approach green, green, green herbaceousness which gives way to ripe black fruit in two very distinct phases - medium finish.
  C: good wine, balanced acidity/tannins with ripe black fruit, some intensity and complexity but a touch disjointed on the palate. Can drink now but will hold for at least 5 years.

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