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  • Country ranking ?

    159
  • Producer ranking ?

    3
  • Decanting time

    3h
  • When to drink

    from 2025
  • Food Pairing

    Catalan Style 
Grilled Lamb with Cucumber Salad

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The Story

With its pedigree style, CHATEAU-FIGEAC epitomises the elegance of the great wines of Bordeaux.

The wine’s individual character is drawn from an outstanding, complex terroir, characterised by three Gunzian gravel outcrops. Made from a grape composition of 35% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Cabernet Franc and 30% Merlot, its Cabernet majority is one of its features.Its unique style gradually shows through and develops over time. 

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Vintage 2016

2016 Bordeaux in Review  “A Paradox”

by Andrew Caillard MW

The 2016 Bordeaux vintage will be remembered as one of the great years of the 21st Century. I have not been so excited about the prospects of such young wines since the remarkable back-to-back 2009 and 2010 vintages. At that time China was at the zenith of its extraordinary fine wine ascendency where the very top estates, particularly Chateau Lafite, had become a baksheesh curren...

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Written Notes

Tasted in November 2021. This wine was a fabulous experience. A very sophisticated wine with everything great, fabulous midpalate, complexity and structure. The trademark of the vintage, which is distinguished style, was present there. Frederic Faye, Figeac's technical director made an awesome job with this wine!

  • 98p

2016 Figeac - Still looking like a barrel sample, the wine shows off a bouquet of flowers, black plums, smoke, licorice, coffee bean, wet earth and cherry. Full-bodied, rich, silky, velvety, long and frankly, this is just a joy to feel on your palate. The wine is sensuous, opulent and yet, remains focused on the freshness and purity of the fruit at its core. This is stunning in every sense of the word. If you score a bottle, try it within a year or so, else age it for 12 or more years. This is another 1949 in the making! The wine was made from blending 38% Cabernet Sauvignon, 26% Merlot and 26% Cabernet Franc. 100 Pts

  • 100p

Deep colour. Intense dark plum, crème de cassis aromas with touches of strawberry and ginger crackle. Pure, fresh, buoyant and beautifully proportioned palate with sweet saturated blackcurrant pastille, dark plum flavours, integrated savoury oak and superb plentiful fine graphite tannins. Finishes brambly and long with lovely mineral persistency. Beautiful vinosity and flavour length. Fabulous Figeac. Best in 20 years. Tasted at Ch Figeac. 99 points

  • 99p

Dark purple red with violet hue and black core. Very complex nose with great depth, exquisite fruit, blackberries, raspberries and hints of blackcurrants, almost smoky nuances, graphite in the background. On the palate well structured with excellent depth and length, ripe tannins, delicate acidity, convincing freshness. A wonderful, almost intellectual wine which might not be easily understood by everybody, but a great wine with mastered power, the best Figeac ever tasted en primeur. Arguably the best work of Michel Rolland at Bordeaux in this vintage. 98

  • 98p

Deep ruby. Spices, blackberries, fruity, blueberries, detailed, some floral notes, tight, vanilla, almost leaps out of the glass. Fresh acidity, ripe tannins, fruity, dark berries, some red fruits, spices, anise, minerals, detailed, blackberries, some coffee and vanilla. High levels of very fine grained tannins, long. 95-97

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Origin

Saint-Emilion, Bordeaux

Vintage Quality

Outstanding

Value For Money

Best buy

Investment potential

Below Average

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