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Château Fonbadet 2016

Pauillac AOC Cru Bourgeois Supérieur

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  • 93pts, Antonio Galloni- Vinous, 2021
  • 93pts, Wine Enthusiast, 2021
  • 91-92, James Suckling, 2021
  • 91pts, Decanter.com, 2021
  • 91pts, The Wine Cellar Insider, 2021
  • 91pts, Robert Parker, 2021

Pauillac is renowned for its bold cassis fruit, pencil lead and graphite notes – and you get all that and much more in this superb 93-point wine. It's from the Peyronie family, advised by the much-revered Michel Rolland. A firm, upstanding claret!

Pauillac is renowned for its bold cassis fruit, pencil lead and graphite notes – and you get all that and much more in this superb 93-point wine. It's from the Peyronie family, advised by the much-revered Michel Rolland. A firm, upstanding claret!

Beyond the Label

Tasting notes

Black fruits and cedar spice, fine-grained tannins with great length

Aroma

Blackberries, plum, lavender, leather, chocolate, cigar

Allergy information

Contains sulphites

Château Fonbadet 2016

More information

  • 13.0% ABV
  • 9.75 Units
  • 750.00 ml
  • 31 December, 2030

Critic Jeb Dunnock said, "I continue to love the wine from this estate." It may not have 'classed growth' status, but its three vineyard parcels are well positioned, boasting illustrious neighbours such as Latour, Mouton Rothschild, Lynch-Bages, Pichon Longueville Baron and Comtesse. Public records track the vineyards of Fonbadet back to 1789, and the current owners, the Peyronie family, have been growers in Pauillac since 1700. More recently they've employed the renowned consultant Michel Rolland to raise wine quality. The grapes are hand harvested plot-by-plot and rigorously sorted. After a classic vinification, the wine is aged in half new French oak. Six years old, it's best decanted to release flavours of black fruits, cigar and spice.

"A wine of total seduction, the 2016 will prove impossible to resist pretty much upon release" Antonio Galloni (Vinous)
93 Points
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