Description
93+ / 100
Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate
A luxury cuvée from the bigger estate of Château Fombrauge, this wine is a visionary project from Bernard Magrez along with his winemaking team and consultant Michel Rolland. This micro cuvée of 4,000 bottles, a blend of 59% Merlot and 41% Cabernet Franc, is another strong, successful effort. Although this wine saw its Cabernet Franc picked very late (October 17 and 18), it has no sense of overripeness, but a beautiful inky purple color and a sweet blueberry and blackberry nose intermixed with tar, graphite and some spicy oak. It is medium to full-bodied, elegant, pure, and while not the monster that its older siblings (2010, 2009 and 2005) were, it is still a big, rich, impressively concentrated St.-Emilion. Drink it over the next 15 or more years.
The history of Magrez Fombrauge does not back nearly that far, in fact, 2000 is the debut vintage for Magrez Fombrauge. Bernard Magrez purchased the Saint Emilion estate back in 1999.
All vineyard management techniques are self-sustainable. At Chateau Magrez Fombrauge, horses are used to work the soil for the red wine grapes, exclusively.
Chateau Magrez Fombrauge is a modern-styled Bordeaux wine indeed. It is also a powerful, deep, concentrated, rich, and complex wine. In the top vintages, it demands 10-15 or maybe even 20 years to come around.
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