2009 Domaine de Fondrèche Ventoux Cuvée Fayard

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 88.8 points

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  9/25/2023 - rjpbath Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Just delightful. Lovely brambly fruit, and body to balance it. Nice tannins. A real pleasure, and such good value. Bravo, in fact.

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  5/29/2013 - cbbrown3 wrote: 90 Points

  The wine is a deep ruby to purple color. The outstanding nose has blackberries, minerals, cherries, smoke, dried herbs, road tar, vanilla, wild flowers, and a touch of dark chocolate. This has medium body, moderate tannins, and very nice acidity. Nice red and black fruit and a load of minerals coat the palate with some dried herbs, chocolate, and a bit of earthiness coming in on the backend. The finish has decent length again highlighting the mineral laden fruit and subtle earthiness. This is drinking very nicely today and should provide a lot of good drinking over the next four to six years.

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  12/23/2011 - oakland.cory wrote: 92 Points

  Crowd pleaser extraoridaire.

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  3/11/2011 - tward wrote: 84 Points

  This was good but never really came together. Had a glass or so the first night, suctioned, finished the bottle two nights later. Though it did improve the second night, the nose came and went. When the nose was showing it had classic black fruit, tar, and garrigue, but then it would fade. The tart and somewhat hollow body filled in the second night. The tannins remained quite drying on the finish. This is going to 'score better' as a food wine as it has the right amount of acidity to work with fairly fatty foods and tannins can be held in check. It may be worth waiting a couple of years on this one.

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  2/23/2011 - Weston3220 Likes this wine: 87 Points

  Drank over 2 Days, [Fleshed out nicely on Day 2]
  C: Deep Purple
  A: med- intensity, youthful / developing
  Savoury, Lightly Charred Meat[Lamb]
  T: Dry, med+/high acid, med body, med tannin, med intensity, med finish
  Dark Fruit , Chocolate, Rocky Mineral
  Conc: Wow with Lamb pairs so nicely
  
  Day2 Fleshed out nicely, fruit even comes through, very good

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