2016 Château de Fonbel, St Emilion, Bordeaux

Red • Dry • Full Bodied • Merlot (70%), Cabernet Sauvignon (16%), Petit Verdot (7%), Carménère (7%)
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Code: 20161200750001010237
  • Colour
    Red
  • Sweetness
    Dry
  • Vintage
    2016
  • Alcohol
    13.5%
  • Grape
    Merlot (70%), Cabernet Sauvignon (16%), Petit Verdot (7%), Carménère (7%)
  • Body
    Full Bodied
  • Producer
    Château de Fonbel

Critics reviews

James Suckling
91/100

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.

James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com (February 2019)
Jane Anson MW
91/100

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.

Drink 2025 - 2040

Jane Anson MW, Decanter.com (April 2017)
Jeb Dunnuck
92/100

The 2016 Château de Fonbel from the team at Ausone is a brilliant Saint-Emilion in 2016. Tons of black raspberry and cassis fruits, notes of spice, and dried flowers, medium body, and a balanced, elegant texture all make for beautiful wine. It has the purity of elegance of the vintage front and center, and while it’s already hard to resist, it’s got 15 years of prime drinking ahead of it.

Drink 2019 - 2034

Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com (February 2019)

About The Wine

Merlot

The most widely planted grape in Bordeaux and a grape that has been on a relentless expansion drive throughout the world in the last decade. Merlot is adaptable to most soils and is relatively simple to cultivate. It is a vigorous naturally high yielding grape that requires savage pruning - over-cropped Merlot-based wines are dilute and bland. It is also vital to pick at optimum ripeness as Merlot can quickly lose its varietal characteristics if harvested overripe.
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St Emilion

Saint-Émilion (often written St-Émilion) is one of Bordeaux’s largest and most historic wine appellations. Officially classified in 1954, it produces more wine than Listrac, Moulis, St-Estèphe, Pauillac, St-Julien and Margaux combined. In fact, St-Emilion wine predates the Médoc, though early commercial success was limited by poor access to Bordeaux’s port. It is home to many small-batch, intensely concentrated wines.
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