2009 Figeac

Impossible to resist the 2009 Figeac, with its tight cassis fruits that widen and soften to creamy damson halfway through the palate, the whole thing still bursting with fresh acidities and life at 14 years old. Opulent but with definition and complexity. Liquorice, slate, smoked earth, grilled herbs, baking spices, so good. Harvest September 22 to October 19, 40hl/h yield, 100% new oak.
98/100 Jane Anson

Figeac 2009 (Saint Émilion; 35% Cabernet Franc, 35% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 30% Merlot; a final yield of 40 hl/ha; tasted at the property in late June 2023). A brilliant wine that is not far off having the potential of the 1990. This has more austerity, more harmony, more balance and more finesse than almost all of the ostensibly great 2009s I’ve tasted recently from either left or right bank. The heat of the summer can produce in this vintage a certain excess; here it just produces gracious elegance and harmony – not even opulence. Seamless classicism. It’s already wonderfully integrated, sensual, complex, long and refined with that layered complexity that comes from the tripartite combination of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Merlot and, above all, the wondrous cedar and leafy blackcurrant aromatics that come from the Cabernet. A wine that seems to herald the great vintages to come – 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020
97/100 Colin Hay; The Drinks Business