2025 Fourcas Dupre
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The 2025 Fourcas Dupré has a slight over-egged nose (I prefer the refinement shown by the Fourcas Hosten tasted alongside it). The palate is medium-bodied with piquant black fruit laced with black pepper. Good acidity, edgy for a Left Bank, this has decent sapidity on the very grippy finish. Not bad, but it needs to gel during its barrel maturation.
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Neal Martin
James Suckling
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A solid, nicely balanced Listrac, the 2025 Château Fourcas Dupré reveals cassis, graphite, spring flowers, and minty herbs on the nose. Based on 74% Cabernet Sauvignon and 26% Merlot that's being raised in 30% new 300-litre barrels with the balance in concrete tanks and amphora, it's medium-bodied on the palate, with firm tannins and outstanding length. Checking in at 13.5% alcohol with a pH of 3.42, I tasted this twice, and it could be a real hidden gem of a wine.
Granular tannins with currant, earth and dark chocolate flavors. Itâs solid in the mid-palate and shows plenty of fruit and chewy phenolics at the end. It has potential and structure.
The 2025 Fourcas Dupré is a big, hearty wine. A blast of dark red fruit, leather, incense, spice, menthol, licorice and gravel makes quite a statement. This brooding, potent Listrac does not leave much to the imagination. Tasted two times.
About the producer
This estate saw a transformation when Guy Pagès bought it in 1970. His work, driving quality higher with increasing attention to detail and passion, has been continued by his son Patrice, who took over in 1985.