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The May 2023 Auction: Part 4
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Estimate: $400
1 very lightly scuffed label.
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94JG
"Like the ’06 Canon, I love the 2006 Figeac, which delivers stunning purity and impressive aromatic complexity, coupled to a classically reserved and elegant palate impression. The stunning nose offers up scents of red and black cherries, menthol, chocolate, herb tones, a fine base of minerality and a generous, balanced coating of vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is medium-full, complex and very pure, with lovely intensity of flavor, a beautiful core of fruit and great focus and cut on the ripely tannic and impeccably balanced finish. This wine has great length and grip on the backend, and really is a very classic vintage of Figeac in the making- not dissimilar to the lovely ’82 Figeac at a similar stage of development."
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"Like the ’06 Canon, I love the 2006 Figeac, which delivers stunning purity and impressive aromatic complexity, coupled to a classically reserved and elegant palate impression. The stunning nose offers up scents of red and black cherries, menthol, chocolate, herb tones, a fine base of minerality and a generous, balanced coating of vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is medium-full, complex and very pure, with lovely intensity of flavor, a beautiful core of fruit and great focus and cut on the ripely tannic and impeccably balanced finish. This wine has great length and grip on the backend, and really is a very classic vintage of Figeac in the making- not dissimilar to the lovely ’82 Figeac at a similar stage of development."
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The world's most influential fine-wine producer and the benchmark for Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne and the Rhone. Its appellation (AOC) system codifies geography, grape and method, and its wines set the global standard for age-worthiness and terroir expression.
The world's largest fine-wine region, built around blends of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. Divided by the Gironde estuary into the structured Left Bank and the plush, Merlot-led Right Bank, it is the historic benchmark for age-worthy claret and sweet Sauternes.
Chateau Figeac is a leading Saint-Emilion estate, promoted to Premier Grand Cru Classe (A) in 2022, distinguished by its gravelly soils and an unusually high proportion of Cabernet, yielding elegant, structured wines.
An aromatic red grape lending perfume, red fruit and a leafy, savory edge. It thrives in the Loire and as a key blending partner in Bordeaux, especially Saint-Emilion.
The world's most planted premium red grape, yielding deeply colored, tannic and structured wines with cassis, cedar and graphite notes. Firm tannins and acidity make it exceptionally age-worthy, whether as a varietal or the backbone of a Bordeaux blend.
Produces plush, supple, fruit-forward reds with plum and chocolate notes. Softer and earlier-maturing than Cabernet, it adds flesh and roundness to blends and stars in Right Bank Bordeaux.