Chateau Figeac - St.-Emilion Premier Grand Cru Classe 2022

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Château-Figeac / SAINT-ÉMILION GRAND CRU / PREMIER GRAND CRU CLASSÉ A

A Saint-Émilion Premier Grand Cru Classé "A", Château Figeac is one of the most prestigious in Bordeaux. 

The château’s reputation is due to its fabulous terroir, consisting of three gravelly rises that account for the highest proportion of Cabernet on the Right Bank. Each vintage is made with the greatest of care in the vineyard and the cellar. Château Figeac produces truly great, elegant wines with a unique character and remarkably reliable quality. They also age outstandingly well.

"An absolute legend of a wine, the 2022 Château Figeac is based on 35% Merlot, 34% Cabernet Franc, and 31% Cabernet Sauvignon that saw malolactic in barrel and 18 months in new barrels. This deep purple-hued beauty offers incredible cassis, spring flowers, crushed stone, graphite, and subtle tobacco notes to go with a full-bodied, ultra-pure, fine, seamless style on the palate. It's so rare to find a wine that can deliver this level of richness and intensity with no sensation of weight, as well as an incredible sense of finesse and elegance. It reminds me of a slightly more concentrated version of the 2016. Hide bottles for a decade if you can and enjoy over the following 40 years or so."-Jeb Dunnuck

The 2022 Figeac is one of the wines of the vintage. Unfurling in the glass with a deep and complex bouquet of dark berries and cassis mingled with hints of violet, pencil lead, mint and cigar wrapper, it's medium to full-bodied, dense and concentrated, with striking intensity and sweetness of fruit married with unerring precision and energy, concluding with a long, penetrating finish. Abundant but exquisitely filigreed tannins lend a sense of classicism and proportion to a wine that might otherwise be flamboyant. As I wrote from barrel, it's the quintessential Figeac, testament to the late Thierry Manoncourt's vision to plant such a large proportion of Cabernet, and on drought-resistant rootstocks. Such is the inherent complexity of Figeac's terroirs that harvest took place sub-block by sub-block between September 1st and 25th. Could the result be a contemporary version of the estate's magical 1949?

 

WA

100

DEC

98

JD

100

JS

99

V

98

Price: $450.00

In Mixed Case: $382.50

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Producer	Chateau Figeac
Country	France
Region	Bordeaux
Subregion	Saint Emilion
Varietal	Bordeaux Blend
Vintage	2022
Sku	16574
Size	750ml