Andrew Jefford | Saturated, midnight-black-purple out to scarlet-purple at the rim. This Figeac, too, has the beguiling sweet-fruited lift of all of the finest Right-Bank wines of the vintage, though perhaps oak plays a slightly more prominent role here than it does at Canon and Belair-Monange. Plums, cream, root spices, saddle leather: the aromas are complex and allusive, and their purity and amplitude draws the drinker in. A wholly admirable aromatic profile. On the palate, this is deep, exuberant, amply fruited, but the fruits exert a very different appeal to the more aerial wines up on the St-Emilion plateau: the plums and berries (and even raspberries) are deep and glowing here, not quite roasted but not far off, with the memory of stones and pips, but finally beautifully glycerous once the central palate textures subside. (The tannins have been very carefully managed so as not to trouble the fruit overmuch.) A graceful, expressive Figeac—but a Figeac nonetheless. | 94

Michael Schuster | Restrained, relatively closed oak-cedar and mineral nose; concentrated, elegantly balanced wine, fresh, finely and firmly tannic; deep, sweet, fruit-cored, close-grained flavor, long and complex and mouthcoating, power and finesse at once, with a beautiful, markedly fruit fragrant persistence. Impressive, complete, long-term Figeac. 2034–50+. | 94