2004 Château Figeac

Community Tasting Notes (73) Avg Score: 91.5 points

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  2/24/2024 - Cailles wrote: flawed

  Bordeaux 2004 - 20 Years On - 33 Reds: All wines tasted blind, not decanted. Observations: 1) 2004 is a mediocre vintage overall, with many pleasant wines, but without the depth of better years. 2) At the top, the vintage produced some classic, old-school wines with lots of freshness and fresh fruit. 3) At the lower end, many wines lacked fruit and ripe tannins, resulting in some astringent and slightly drying wines. 4) An alarming number of Right Bank wines (5 out of 16, no Left Bank wine) were oxidized, including some heavyweights like Petrus, Evangile or Figeac. An unacceptably high proportion of faulty wines. 5) I’m not sure that the 2004 are currently in a good phase, many of my scores were lower than in previous tastings. The question is if it’s just a weaker phase or the beginning of the end. 6) At the top and the only wine >95pts was a layered Le Pin (rated 96pts), with a charming Vieux Chateau Certan, a surprising Issan and Clos l'Eglise, as well as an elegant Lafite sharing second place (all rated 94pts).
  
  TN: Oxidized.

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  2/10/2024 - rexmerlot wrote: 93 Points

  Dark ruby in colour. Black fruit, tobacco, and dark chocolate. Nice acidity, med body, smooth tannins. This wine did not taste 20 years old. Will age for many more years. This is why I love buying bordeaux wines. 20 years later and never disappoints

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  1/1/2024 - jayw wrote:

  Muted nose and not much fruit on the palate. Very tertiary with tobacco and graphite notes dominating.

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  12/27/2023 - Bolzano2022 wrote: 88 Points

  Earthy, tobacco, barnyard dominant. Some of my friends liked it. But I thought it passed the peak with limited fruit aroma and flavor at this point.

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  3/10/2023 - cdeco001 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  The wine looks inky colored. The legs are slow. There is moderate sediment in the bottle. It smells like gedroogde pruim, rozijn, aardbeienjam, pruim and paddestoel. It tastes like gedroogde pruim, rozijn, aardbeienjam, peer, pruim, paddestoel and koffie. The body is medium/full. The wine has round texture. The wine finishes medium. The wine has low acidity.
  There is moderate sediment in the bottle.great wine, nice drinking now

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