Community Tasting Notes 34

• Chied Likes this wine: 91 points

  April 7, 2024 - Very good! Borderline 92 in my book, but a solid St Emilion GCC wine…
  
  Cheers!

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• Caruso Likes this wine: 94 points

  March 10, 2024 - From a warmer than textbook cellar. reaching 18°C in Summer. Ruby with purple hue to german pink in thin layers. Pnp, partly decant. From the start medium to intense nose of sweet cherries, blackberries, earthy notes, almonds. On the palate it is tannic, but not unbalanced as its structure is easily balanced by its concentrated fruit. Nice quite long finish. No alcolhol shining trough, though it is light on its feet and not overdone. This is clearly very young and is in need for cellaring for at least 5 more years for those who like there wine less tannic and smooth. Nevertheless it is a fun to drink it at this stage, especially with food. The decant part shows more intensity after approx. 90 minutes. 5/12/17/10. -2035+

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• WojteG Likes this wine: 94 points

  January 25, 2024 - Well... very powerful wine (14.5% ABV) with black pepper from the first second to the last minute, with grippy, grainy tannins, vivid acidity, with finish that lasts forever and I would never have guessed it's 90% M and 10% CF from St.Emillion.
  Who said Merlot can be boring?! 🙂
  I just discovered its another face.
  Let's start from the beginning and third glass ( by the way it was decanted for 3 hours). Yes now I smell coffee, cocoa powder, earth, leather ( nice), but no fruits! Interested as it could be.
  Taste - everything I mentioned above plus red cherry, red currant, sweet spice, minerals, black chocolate.
  This wine walks a thin line between chaos and perfection.
  
  The 2016 vintage got 96 points according to the WA Vintage Guide. Extraordinary. Still tannic, youthful or slow to mature.
  
  How about the wine?
  RP - 95
  Decanter - 95
  WS - 93
  JD -91
  JS - 90
  CT - 91
  WE - 91
  Atkin - 89
  Jeff Leve - 93/88*
  
  * Jeff Leve rated this wine 93 points in 2017 and it was downgraded by him by 5 points in second tasting in 2019
  
  Interesting take by my most respected wine critic.

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• OldHick95 Likes this wine: 92 points

  January 14, 2024 - I feared this might be too young to enjoy, but it just needed some coaxing. To start, black pepper was central from aroma to finish. Needed an hour of decanting for the fruit and spice to emerge: red berry jam, black cherry, and milk chocolate, with fresh raspberry and dusty tannins on the finish.

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• Lemmy-W wrote: 90 points

  December 28, 2023 - A good wine, but nose was not a pleasant one (for me at least).

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2016
• Type Red
• Producer Château Fonroque
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Libournais
• Appellation St. Émilion Grand Cru
• UPC Codes 3664208002302, 3770010687009, 400005302046, 616773774545

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• Pending Delivery 34 (2%)
• In Cellars 1,286 (74%)
• Consumed 428 (24%)

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