Château Fonbel 2025 - Saint-Émillion Grand Cru

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Vauthiers prøvefelt på Saint-Émilion-sletten
Château de Fonbel har været ejet af Vauthier-familien siden 1971 og fungerer som et slags praktisk laboratorium for familien bag Ausone og Chapelle d’Ausone. Ejendommen ligger syd for Saint-Émilion-byen på sletten og dækker 16 hektar, hvor Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Carmenère og Petit Verdot står på sandet ler, grus og sand. Det er ikke den mest monumentale del af Saint-Émilion, men det er en adresse med teknisk disciplin og en klar vilje til at arbejde med druesammensætningen.

2025 er 60% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Cabernet Franc og 5% Carmenère. Carmenère spiller en særlig rolle i årgangen. Perrotti-Brown citerer Constance Vauthier for, at Carmenère bidrager med krydderi og fungerer særligt godt i en varm årgang. I glasset ser Perrotti-Brown kirsch, sorte hindbær, blåbær, mynte-te og blyantspåner, med en elegant, let til medium fyldig palet, fløjlsagtige tanniner og frisk spænding omkring den røde og sorte frugt.

Hindle går længere og kalder vinen et køb. Hun beskriver kølig blå frugt, lakrids, flint, saftig friskhed, rød frugt og et let salt, peberkrydret præg fra Carmenère. Hendes billede er en charmerende, harmonisk og lettilgængelig Fonbel med blød tekstur, friskhed og et lille kalket greb i afslutningen.

Anson finder en mere seriøs vin end Simard, med støvede rosenblade, skifer, kridt, mørk frugt og en markant, salt og bladet afslutning. Galloni fremhæver dybde, kødfuldhed og udtryksfuldhed, og noterer at Caberneterne spiller en vigtig rolle i både aromatik og struktur. Neal Martin er mere forsigtig: han finder rød ribs, tranebær, bløde tanniner og et lidt læderpræget udtryk, men savner mere lysstyrke i afslutningen.

 

  • The Wine Palate (Lisa Perrotti-Brown)

    Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2025 de Fonbel pops from the glass with ready-to-go notes of kirsch, black raspberries, and fresh blueberries, plus hints of mint tea and pencil shavings. The elegantly styled, light- to medium-bodied palate has velvety tannins and great tension framing the vibrant red and black fruit layers, finishing fragrant. The blend is 60% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc, 5% Carménère, and 30% Cabernet Sauvignon. “The Carménère adds spice to the blend, just a touch, but it is really important,” said Constance Vauthier. “It really works well in a hot vintage.”

    91-93
  • The Wine Cellar

    Black cherries, licorice, black raspberries, currants, and cherries create the perfume. On the palate, the wine balances its creamy side, with its vibrant, energy, finishing with juicy, sweet, crisp, peppery cherries, currants, and licorice notes. The wine blends 60% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Carmenere. Drink from 2028-2045.

    91-93
  • Decanter Magazine

    This is very delicious - a buy! Cool blue fruit with soft liquorice and flint aromas on the nose. Clean and juicy, this is fresh and focused with a red fruit and slightly savoury peppery spiced aspect from the 5% Carmenere in the blend. Floral, fresh but soft and almost creamy too - a nice combination of fruit and acidity giving a round but comforting mouthfeel. Charming, easy to approach with harmony, still lively with a kick on the finish but settled and balanced. A touch of enjoyable chalkiness lingers. Ageing no new oak, 30% one-year-old barrels. 3.7pH.

    93
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91-93

Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2025 de Fonbel pops from the glass with ready-to-go notes of kirsch, black raspberries, and fresh blueberries, plus hints of mint tea and pencil shavings. The elegantly styled, light- to medium-bodied palate has velvety tannins and great tension framing the vibrant red and black fruit layers, finishing fragrant. The blend is 60% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc, 5% Carménère, and 30% Cabernet Sauvignon. “The Carménère adds spice to the blend, just a touch, but it is really important,” said Constance Vauthier. “It really works well in a hot vintage.”

91-93

Black cherries, licorice, black raspberries, currants, and cherries create the perfume. On the palate, the wine balances its creamy side, with its vibrant, energy, finishing with juicy, sweet, crisp, peppery cherries, currants, and licorice notes. The wine blends 60% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Carmenere. Drink from 2028-2045.

93

This is very delicious - a buy! Cool blue fruit with soft liquorice and flint aromas on the nose. Clean and juicy, this is fresh and focused with a red fruit and slightly savoury peppery spiced aspect from the 5% Carmenere in the blend. Floral, fresh but soft and almost creamy too - a nice combination of fruit and acidity giving a round but comforting mouthfeel. Charming, easy to approach with harmony, still lively with a kick on the finish but settled and balanced. A touch of enjoyable chalkiness lingers. Ageing no new oak, 30% one-year-old barrels. 3.7pH.