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Peby Faugeres 2015

St Emilion, Grand Cru

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Tasting Notes

The 2015 Peby Faugeres has an ostentatious bouquet with macerated small black cherries and crème de cassis lacquered with new oak. The palate is ripe and candied with powerful, opulent red and black fruit laced with white pepper and sage. It has enormous depth and concentration although it feels just a little obvious on the heady finish. It is all a bit predictable but it is well made and will hopefully repay bottle aging.

Score: 92

Neal Martin, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2021-2036 01 March 2018

The 2015 Peby Faugeres is pure Merlot cropped at 27 hl/ha between 1-12 October and matured in 65% new oak. It has a ripe cassis and blueberry scented bouquet that just feels a little static at the moment. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin, the oak a little dominant at the moment, plenty of sappy black fruit with a saline finish that displays good tension. This Peby-Faugeres seems more refined than recent vintages and once the nose gains more animation, then it could turn into a commendable Saint Emilion, even if I find the 2015 Faugeres more to my taste.

Score: 91 - 93

Neal Martin, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2020-2035 01 April 2016

Produced from 100% Merlot and matured for 18 months in 65% new and 35% one-year-old French oak barrels, the 2015 Peby Faugeres is medium to deep garnet-purple in color with a strikingly gorgeous nose of exotic spices, baked blackberries, plum preserves, cherry cordial and fragrant earth with smoked meats, lavender, licorice and tapenade hints. The boldly fruited, full-bodied palate features opulent, totally decadent spiced black and blue fruits with a very firm yet ripe structure and finishes with incredible depth and length. Stefan von Neipperg consults on the vineyard management here, while Michel Rolland focuses on harvest dates, winemaking, aging and the final blend - a big "bravo" to them both on this 2015!

Score: 98

Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2021-2041 21 February 2018

Powerful, dense and explosive, the 2015 Péby Faugères is superb. Black cherry, mocha, tobacco, menthol and licorice are racy and voluptuous in the glass. Readers should expect a super-ripe, flamboyant wine loaded with personality. Péby Faugères is 100% old-vine Merlot from the heart of Silvio Denz's Saint-Émilion property. Done in an extravagant style, Péby is not especially subtle, but it is often arrestingly beautiful, as it is again in 2015.

Score: 96

Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com Maturity: 2021-2035 01 February 2018

An extravagant, flamboyant wine, Silvio Denz's 2015 Péby Faugères hits all the right notes. A rich concoction of black cherry, plum, new leather, mocha and sweet tobacco nearly covers the wine's huge tannins, but there is plenty of structure underneath. The wine's unbridled explosive energy is impossible to miss. This is a spectacularly rich, visceral wine from Silvio Denz and winemaker Michel Rolland. Even with all of its intensity and decidedly modern personality, the 2015 is going to need the better part of the next decade to start showing all it's got. Péby Faugères is 100% old-vine Merlot from the heart of Denz's Saint-Émilion property. Tasted two times.

Score: 94 - 96

Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com 01 April 2016

The 2015 Château Peby Faugeres is a blockbuster that’s up with the top wines from this estate. As with the 2016, it’s 100% Merlot raised in 90% new oak. A big wine that checks in north of 15% alcohol (you’d never know it by tasting it), it offers a huge bouquet of cassis, graphite, bouquet garni, scorched earth, and toasty oak. With a full-bodied, layered, seamless style on the palate and awesome purity of fruit, it has the concentration, balance, and freshness to improve for 7-8 years and keep for two decades. Tasted twice. This cuvee from Swiss owner Silvio Denz comes from a 7.45-hectare portion of the Faugères vineyard, which lies on the eastern edge of Saint-Emilion, on the Saint-Emilion/Castillon border. The parcel is mostly older vines and is a unique southeast facing slopes of brown limestone soils. It’s worth mentioning that Jean-Luc Thunevin’s blockbuster Valandraud cuvee comes from a site not far from here and this sensational wine is made with guidance from Stephan von Neipperg for the viticulture and famed consultant Michel Rolland for the winemaking. All these of these wines reviewed here are beautiful.

Score: 97

Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com Maturity: 2026-2046 30 November 2017

The 2015 Château Peby Faugeres is a blockbuster that’s up with the top wines from this estate. As with the 2016, it’s 100% Merlot raised in 90% new oak. A big wine that checks in north of 15% alcohol (you’d never know it by tasting it), it offers a huge bouquet of cassis, graphite, bouquet garni, scorched earth, and toasty oak. With a full-bodied, layered, seamless style on the palate and awesome purity of fruit, it has the concentration, balance, and freshness to improve for 7-8 years and keep for two decades. Tasted twice.

Score: 97

Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com Maturity: 2026-2046 30 November 2017

The best Peby I have ever tasted. The purity of fruit and density is fantastic yet it remains bright and floating. It’s full yet agile. Perfect tannins. Pure merlot magic.

Score: 99 - 100

James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com 01 April 2016

Alluring, with steeped plum and boysenberry confiture notes that are rich and lush in feel, yet stay bright through the finish, presenting a light brambly underpinning and suave spice and toast details. Gorgeous fruit.

Score: 93 - 96

James Molesworth, Wine Spectator 01 April 2016

Very dark. Meaty nose. Very sweet! And masses of oak and this is really in the old style! Quite painful to taste! Too much. A wine to be impressed by rather than to enjoy.

Score: 15 - 16

Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com Maturity: 2021-2030 01 April 2016