Fonbel 2016

Name: Fonbel 2016
Brand: Fine Wine Cellar
SKU: fv_151092016-BT6
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Bottle price:: £29.83
Country:: France
Region:: Bordeaux
Sub-region:: St Emilion
Vintage:: 2016
Grape:: Merlot / Cabernet Sauvignon
ABV:: 14.0%
Score:: 92, Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW

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2016 de Fonbel is a blend of 70% Merlot, 16% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Petit Verdot, and 7% Carmenere and has a deep garnet-purple color. It is a little closed and broody to begin, opening out with profound blackberry pie, baked plums, and tar scents, plus wafts of tree bark and truffles. Medium to full-bodied, the palate is rich and plush, with fantastic freshness, and an earthy finish.

The 2016 de Fonbel, ostensibly the entry label to the Vauthier portfolio, has an attractive bouquet of blackberry and briar aromas that develop a light estuarine scent with time. The palate is medium-bodied with light tannin, black fruit and a saline note toward the finish. Enjoy over the next six to eight years. Drink 2020-2026.

This has a spicy edge with black and red fruit, as well as a reductive edge, leading to a succulent and juicy array of bright raspberries and red cherries. Drink or hold.

Rich autumnal hedgerow packed with ripe blackberry fruits and overlaid with a fresh, herbal, spicy edge that pulls the mid-palate inwards and allows it to expand on the finish. Expertly done and very enjoyable. 70% Merlot, 16% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Petit Verdot and 7% Carmenere. From the Vauthier stable.

Rich and crimson-tasting with just a hint of pencil shavings. Very sweet. Just a bit too sweet. Drying end.Drink 2023-2030

The fruit on the nose is bright and fragrant the start of the palate has red fruits but there is sweetness underneath some ripe cassis, Discreet tannins support with the sweet fruit at the back giving way to a fresher lighter fragrant finish. 2023-32

Composed of 70% Merlot, 16% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Petit Verdot and 7% Carménère, the medium to deep garnet-purple colored 2016 Fonbel has a classic nose of warm red plums, cigar box and black plums with nuances of redcurrants, Sichuan pepper and tar. Medium to full-bodied, the palate delivers a lot of mid-palate fruit with lovely plush tannins and a long refreshing finish.Drink Date: 2019 - 2032

The 2016 Fonbel is a blend of 70% Merlot, 16% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Petit Verdot and 7% Carmenere picked from 29 September until 18 October at 50 hectoliters per hectare. It has a pretty cranberry and blackcurrant-scented bouquet, quite transparent and terroir-driven with nicely integrated oak (30% aged in new oak). The palate is medium-bodied with crisp tannin, a lively and breezy Saint Emilion, not the most complex you will find but full of personality. The freshness suggests that this will drink early, and that Carmenere just gives it something different (although Pauline Vauthier mentioned that she will regraft some of those vines). Drink 2019 - 2028

A balanced and fruity wine with an almost Burgundian mouthfeel and balance. Medium body and a juicy finish.

Fonbel 2016

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