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Château Fonplégade 2005 Red (Saint-Emilion)
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Huge, bitter chocolate-flavored wine, spiced with cinnamon, sweet herbs and intense new wood flavors. It benefits from very ripe fruit, but with all its great richness, the wine manages to keep a sense of balance, the acidity cutting through the opulence to leave a fresh finish.
— R.V.
(6/1/2009)
Château Fonplégade 2007 Red (Saint-Emilion)
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Dark in color, with an initial note of extraction, and with weighty fruit under the toasty surface. The wine is still coming together, needing 5–6 years to turn into the full-bodied ripe-fruited wine that it potentially is.
— R.V.
(12/15/2010)
Château Fonplégade 2006 Red (Saint-Emilion)
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Great wafts of sweet fruit and ripe tannins show this wine well. Its fruit is balanced, the power behind it well judged alongside the fresh juicy black currant flavors and acidity. The texture is certainly dense, and the wine needs time. Give it 4–5 years.
— R.V.
(6/1/2009)
Château Fonplégade 2008 Barrel sample Red (Saint-Emilion)
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90-92 Barrel sample. Very jammy fruit, where the sweetness seems to dominate. It is accessible, the tannins open, opulent, with a ripe structure. It works though, as a rich wine.
— R.V.
(12/31/2009)
Château Fonplégade 2011 Barrel Sample Red (Saint-Emilion)
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87-89. Barrel sample. This is a rich, soft, full-bodied wine with smooth tannins and fat plum fruits.
— R.V.
(4/6/2012)
Château Fonplégade 2005 Fleur de Fonplégade Red (Saint-Emilion)
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The second wine of Château Fonplégade is dark, brooding, powerful. There are sweet chocolate and spice flavors that even manage to dominate the solid, ripe black berry fruits. Certainly rich, it misses the freshness of acidity.
— R.V.
(6/1/2009)
Château Fonplégade 2006 Fleur de Fonplégade Grand Cru Red (Saint-Emilion)
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The second wine of Fonplégade is soft, gentle, the tannins firmly surprised behind a velvet texture and ripe fruit. There is a jammy, sweet quality to the wine, and it is ready to drink now.
— R.V.
(6/1/2009)
Château Fonplégade 2006 Barrel sample Red (Saint-Emilion)
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86—88 Barrel sample. In the lively, vibrant mode, which is so prevalent in 2006. Great blackcurrants, fresh fruit, maybe not much structure.
— R.V.
(12/31/2009)
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