Chateau Peby Faugeres’s St. Emilion Grand Cru consists of the best plots of Merlot from the Chateau’s clay-limestone soils. In Bordeaux, 2009 was an exceptional vintage and is highly sought after by wine aficionados and collectors. The result is a well balanced and complex wine that is just entering its prime drinking window. Notes of prune, potting soil, and chewing tobacco are balanced against equally powerful fig and luscious black cherry notes. Ultimately, this wine has plenty of complexity and depth for further aging but is certainly enjoyable now, with tertiary notes — dried fruit and tobacco — already showing, for those that want something on the younger side.
Chateau Peby Faugeres, Saint-Émilion Grand Cru (Bordeaux, France) 2009
By Vince Simmon