2021 Château Figeac

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 94.7 points

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  4/26/2024 - ggroebli Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Dunkle Früchte

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  3/9/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote: 96 Points

  Floral, energetic, and fresh, this is the perfect example of elegance and class. The nose, with its bouquet of flowers is made even better with the addition of cigar wrappers, mint, cherries, plums, black raspberries, cocoa and espresso. The medium-bodied palate is fresh, with layers of red, and dark red fruits, refined-textures, and a finish with length, purity, and a salty savory, minty endnote. This is a perfect example of a modern classic wine blending 40% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31% Cabernet Franc and 29% Merlot. Drink from 2026-2055.

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  6/21/2022 - vvWine.ch wrote: 97 Points

  (96-98 vvPunkte) Erst am 4. Oktober wurde hier der Cabernet gelesen, ohne Chaptalisierung vinifiziert und zu 100% im Neuholz ausgebaut. Tiefdunkle Farbe. Die Nase ist sehr feinduftig, klar und rein, dunkle Früchte dominieren, Cassis und Pflaumen, darüber eine fast schon pfeffrige Würze sowie Süssholzaromen, das Holz ist perfekt verpackt. Im Gaumen mit für den Jahrgang relativ hoher Konzentration, die Frucht ist knackig, auf den Punkt gereift, die Säure stimmig, der Wein baut viel Druck auf, bleibt dabei hochelegant. Im Abgang mit grosser Länge und einem Finale, das auf schwarze Johannisbeeren endet. Ein Wein mit grossen Reserven, 2025-2050+ (Verkostet "En Primeur" im April 2022. Château Figeac) vvWine.ch

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  6/11/2022 - watcheslover Likes this wine: 96 Points

  A very great wine for the vintage, not vey far than the fabulous 2019

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  5/31/2022 - PanosKakaviatos Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Selections of Bordeaux 2021 from barrel: Another candidate for wine of the vintage. Can you spell t-r-a-n-s-c-e-n-d? It has more juicy fruit than expected from the vintage, which director Frédéric Faye referred to as “of determination”. He and his team were determined to get optimal ripeness, and Figeac succeeds with flying colors. Rather predictably, the blend counts “the most Cabernet percentage ever,” Faye says, with 40% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31% Cabernet Franc and the rest Merlot, which had a tougher time. A decision taken to “ignore alarming weather forecasts for the weekend of 2 October” proved correct: two weeks of Indian summer ensued, which helped the Cabernets. While I would not compare the ripeness here to 2018, 2019 and 2020, the 2021 comes much closer than most, reflecting bright red and black fruit and remarkable tannic finesse rather rare for the vintage. Part of the success is due to the estate’s new winery, used for the first time for this vintage and through which the number of lots for blending was 40% higher than for the 2020 harvest, allowing greater precision after the painstaking harvest. Any fan of Figeac should get 2021 in their cellar. As ever, 100% new oak. And alcohol at 13% with a pH of 3.65. (95-97)

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