2005 Château Fourcas Hosten

Community Tasting Notes (38) Avg Score: 87.5 points

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  1/25/2024 - Oliverl1 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Purchased half a case recently at local retail. Decanted for 12 hours. Lots of tannins present and still tastes on the young side but has definitely started drinking! Classic Médoc and typical characteristics of the 2005 vintage of course. This such a tremendous wine for $29. I wish I had more. Drink now or hold for up to 10 more years.

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  12/6/2023 - Jake Barnes wrote: 85 Points

  From a bottle purchased recently at retail. Perfect cork, fill, and color. About 50/50 tertiary notes verses aged fruit on the nose and palate with decent balance. Not over the hill, but definitely getting older and not particularly better, as Michael Broadbent would have said. I’ll bet this was quite a tasty young wine, but now it’s just becoming generically tertiary and unexciting. 13% ABV (good/**/13.5/85)

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  8/13/2023 - englishman's claret wrote: 89 Points

  A classic Medoc nose, comforting and complete in its aromas if not profound in its expression, full of blackcurrant jelly, cedar, ink, a little pop of green peppercorn. A little rough and tumble on the palate and slightly astringent on its own, but a suitable accompaniment to beef, which is of course how this sort of thing ought to be enjoyed. And it is very enjoyable for what it is.

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  8/9/2023 - Oliverl1 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Excellent value. Purchased a few bottles from local retail. The bottles were in great condition with perfect fill levels. Typical characteristics of the 2005 vintage, backwards and tannic! However, after about 10 to 12 hours, this wine really opened up. Still on the young side, I think it will be a good few more years before this wine reaches its peak. At least another 10 years of life left in these bottles.

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  6/6/2022 - Jeanda Does not like this wine: 86 Points

  Grande déception pour ce vin bu à plusieurs reprises, sur plusieurs années. Le vin ne s'est jamais vraiment ouvert et se montrait à chaque fois décharné.

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