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Manage Subscriptions2018 Château de Fonbel
Red Bordeaux Blend
- France
- Bordeaux
- Libournais
- St. Émilion Grand Cru
Community Tasting Notes 6
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rossi.wine wrote: 88 points
February 8, 2023 - Tasted next to 2020. On the nose ripe and fragrant, showing dark fruit and some floral notes. Not particularly well balanced on the palate though - quite high in acidity, some bitterness. Decent length. A little angular. 87-89
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kidsmurf2000 wrote: 92 points
December 13, 2021 - From memory, this was pretty good
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La Cave d'Argent Likes this wine: 92 points
November 20, 2021 - Vinturi-decanted and sampled over a three-hour period, this opaque ruby wine is a blend of 70% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon and 10% Carménère. Teeming with dark bramble fruits, red currants, exotic spices, Provençal herbs and loamy earth, it is a medium-bodied, freshly acidic red with plentiful fine-grained tannins, well-integrated alcohol (14%) and a judicious aliquot of oak. Layered and dense on the mid-palate, it proceeds to a lengthy finish that flashes some tannic astringency. Give this a couple more years in the cellar. If you choose to pop the cork at this early stage, allow it two or more hours in decanter. Drink 2023-2033.
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Jake Barnes wrote:
September 30, 2021 - (9/30/21) This showed oak and red currants on the nose and crunchy red currants on the palate on PnP. It was well endowed with ripe tannins and had decently integrated alcohol. All in all, this was approachable, young as it was, but two hours of air helped the oak become less noticeable and the fruit to show through the tannins more precisely. The only complaint might be that it was a touch thin. 14% abv.
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Jeff Leve wrote: 93 points
March 9, 2021 - Appreciably better in bottle than in barrel, the wine offers spicy fruits, flowers and licorice on the nose. The wine has filled out, adding additional layers of silky textured, sweet, fresh red fruits with a light touch of oak in the finish. The wine was made from blending 70% Merlot, 16% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Carmenere and 7% Petit Verdot.
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By Jane Anson
Bordeaux En Primeur 2018 St-Émilion Part 1, 4/3/2019 (link)(Château de Fonbel, St-Émilion, Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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Wine Definition
- Vintage 2018
- Type Red
- Producer Château de Fonbel
- Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
- Designation n/a
- Vineyard n/a
- Country France
- Region Bordeaux
- SubRegion Libournais
- Appellation St. Émilion Grand Cru
- UPC Code 3258691618890
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 88 (16%)
- In Cellars 419 (75%)
- Consumed 50 (9%)
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- AppellationSt. Émilion Grand Cru
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