2004 Château Péby Faugères

Community Tasting Notes (16) Avg Score: 92.1 points

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  2/24/2024 - Cailles wrote: 93 Points

  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: Not overly expressive nose with dark ripe fruit and herbal notes. On the palate this is more expressive and layered with a broad array of fruit from dark, to blue, to red. Fine herbal notes, crushed rocks. Quite complex and intriguing. Very fresh, probably a bit harsh tannins which will have to melt a bit more but quite complete, light and airy. This is the best Peby Faugeres I’ve had to date. In warmer vintages it is usually too ripe and opulent for my taste, here in 2004 it worked well.

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  2/5/2021 - MM29 wrote: 94 Points

  Aus der vor-Denz-Zeit und als der Peby noch keine Fr. 70.- kostete...aber schon sehr gut gewesen ist. Ideale Trinkreife jetzt und noch 3 - 5 Jahre?

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  9/14/2020 - Jeff Leve wrote: 92 Points

  Medium/full-bodied, round, lush and offering its plummy, espresso, smoke, licorice, black cherry and cocoa profile with ease. This is fully mature. There is no reason to age this any longer.

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  10/22/2019 - MM29 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Schön gereifter Merlot - einfach richtig gut. Alles andere als alt, für mich hat er jetzt sein ideales Trinkfenster aber erreicht und wird nicht mehr besser...auf hohem Niveau getrunken war dann halt der noch folgende 2009 aber einfach nochmals feiner und besser

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  4/21/2019 - MM29 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Nach einer Stunde in perfekter Trinkreife, richtig gut. Mit 15 Prozent Alkohol nicht ein typisch filigraner Bdx. Stört aber nur wenig.

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