2006 Château Feytit-Clinet
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The 2006 Château Feytit-Clinet offers an upfront, well defined and surprisingly backward bouquet with menthol-tinged black fruit, cassis and blueberry. There is a floral aspect to this wine and it comes across as being well balanced with fine-grain tannin on the palate. It comes replete with a candied and quite saline finish that does not quite deliver the same degree of complexity of the nose. Still, this is a commendable wine from Jeremy Chasseuil that is continuing to give pleasure, even though I feel that it has not built on that initial burst of colour it was showing during the first years of its life. Tasted February 2016.
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Full red-ruby. Extravagant aromas of raspberry, iron, brown spices, tobacco, burning cinders and nutty oak. Lush, broad, ripe and dry; really saturates the palate without any impression of weight. Suave, fine-grained, horizontal wine, still a bit youthfully tight. Finishes with lovely lingering perfume.
Fresh sweet black fruit on the nose then fresh on the palate, fine fresh cool tannins balanced by sweet fruit. Fine dry tannins. Could be a good buy. (JH)
About the producer
Jeremy Chasseuil took back control of his family estate in 2000. Prior to this the vines and wine were managed by the Moueix group (owners of Château La Fleur-Pétrus, Château Hossana and Château Trotanoy).