I have had one or two corked bottles from this vintage over the years, but when it's good, it's one of the best Figeacs that you can find to truly appreciate the style and potential of this property. A lovely, gentle and thoroughly delicious example - generous and unshowy, rippled through with black truffles, freshly-rubbed mint, soft leather and a twist of well-loved, lived-in library (when you get a glass in front of you you'll know what I mean!). It's so juicy you could gulp this back. Not a show pony, nor a wine for lovers of show ponies, but a near perfect example of Figeac's subtle mastery of this terroir. Drinking Window: 2017 - 2035
Tasted by: Jane Anson Part of Château Figeac vertical: Extraordinary vintages (June 2017)

This is adorned with a rather leathery, earthy nose that is lacking some fruit concentration. The palate is medium-bodied, very well balanced with toasty red-berried fruits, fine tannins and a clean, well-defined finish of raspberry leaf, briary, a hint of espresso and a touch of leather. Very pure although a little short on the finish. Needs some time. Tasted October 2007.

Drink 2008-2020
-Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide No 7

A minty, herbal characteristic combines with scents of incense, black currants, cherries, smoke, and licorice in this complex, pure 2001. It was a bit closed on the three occasions I tasted it, but it was certainly medium-bodied and elegant, with loads of nobility/pedigree, and the potential to be outstanding. Give it 1-2 years of cellaring, and drink it over the following 12-15.

Good medium red. Sexy brown spices lift the black raspberry, cedar and roast coffee components on the nose. Supple and silky on entry, then distinctly cabernet-like in the middle, with sappy flavors of currant, black cherry, cedar, mint, roast coffee and burnt licorice. Seems rather dominated by its oak today, and finishes with somewhat angular tannins and a leathery element. (A second sample, tasted away from the chateau, showed a silkier, suaver texture leavened by nicely integrated acidity and lusher, sweeter tannins.) Aramon feels that the 2002 tannins are rounder and sweeter, but notes that this wine has a higher pH.