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JAMES SUCKLING: "Red plummy fruit and nice spices. Medium-bodied with fresh, smooth, fine-grained tannins. Juicy and lively, with balanced fruit. Soft, with a medium-long finish. 65% merlot, 31% cabernet sauvignon and 4% carmenere."
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JEB DUNNUCK: "A unique blend of 65% Merlot, 32% Cabernet Sauvignon, and the rest Carmenère, the 2024 Château De Fonbel sports a medium ruby hue as well as spicy, complex notes of red fruits, sappy green herbs, rose, and flowers. It's nicely textured, medium-bodied, has a juicy, lively, very elegant profile, slightly elevated acidity, and a good finish. It will be a complex, elegant, nicely balanced 2024 that will need a few years of bottle age."
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THE WINE CELLAR INSIDER: "Quite floral in character, you also find spearmint, spices, currants, and cherries in the perfume. Elegant, refined, and gentle, the wine expresses its sweetness in the plums and red cherries on the palate, and in the delicate mid-palate, with a touch of cocoa that shows up at the end of the finish. The wine blends 65% Merlot, 31% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 4% Carmenere. Drink from 2027-2038."
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VINUM: "Strahlendes Rubinrot; leicht reduktiv im Duft, kühler Kamin über dunkler Frucht; feingliedrig, mit Zug und Frisch, feine Gerbstoffe, ein Hauch von Krautigkeit schwingt mit, Loire-like im Stil, mit solider Länge und salingem Finish. Delikat."
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FALSTAFF: "Kräftiges Rubingranat, violette Reflexe, dezente Wasserrandaufhellung. Tabakig, Rote Ribiseln, eingelegte rote Kirschen, verhaltenes Bukett. Schlank, Ribisel, rote Waldbeeren, frisch, mineralisch, zitroniger Touch im Abgang."
