2022 Château Fourcas-Dupré, Cru Bourgeois Listrac

2022 Château Fourcas-Dupré, Cru Bourgeois Listrac

Tasted April 2023. With a new team at Fourcas-Dupré, we were delighted with the quality tasting it en primeur. It's got wonderful balance and savoury-tinged bramble and cassis fruit. This is an estate on the up, and from the far less renowned appellation of Listrac, it provides excellent value.

Critic score
90/100 info

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Wine details

  • Region & country
    Listrac-Médoc, Médoc, Bordeaux, France
  • Maturity
    Ready 2023 - 2040info
  • Colour
    Red
  • Sweetness
    Dry
  • Style
    Still
  • Unit Volume
    Bottle (75cl.)

Tasting notes

Powerful tannins, intense colour, with well textured damson and black cherry fruit, alongside the cocoa bean, espresso and spice of the vintage, tempered by savoury notes of cherry pit and mint. This is well executed, with carefully extracted muscular tannins. 40% new oak, 40% one year barrels, 2% amphora and 18% cement vats. Gérard Jicquel owner since 2019, the estate now has a new winery. An excellent wine, one to look out for.

Jane Anson, janeanson.com (May 2023)
92/100

Another terrific Listrac, the dense purple-hued 2022 Château Fourcas Dupré boasts a solid perfume of ripe cassis, violets, sappy herbs, and graphite. With medium to full-bodied richness on the palate, it has ripe tannins, plenty of mid-palate depth, and a great finish.

Jeb Dunnuck, jebdunnuck.com (May 2023)
90—92/100

The 2022 Fourcas-Dupré offers up attractive aromas of sweet cassis, violets and plums, followed by a medium to full-bodied, deep and concentrated, with lively acids but assertive, firm tannins that might have been mitigated by a gentler touch during extraction, given the vintage's tannic weight. Will élevage be kind to it?

William Kelley, Wine Advocate, Issue #266 (April 2023)
(86—87+?)/100
Château Fourcas-Dupré

Fourcas-Dupré is a relatively unknown Cru Bourgeois which lies off the beaten track, although vines have been grown here since Count Jean-Baptiste Lynch first owned the estate in the 18th century. It achieves the enviable balance of quality and value and is one of the top estates in Margaux which has a growing reputation. Its quality has long been recognised by its rank as a Cru Bourgeois, the quality level just below Bordeaux’s Grand Cru Classé estates. Fourcas-Dupré sits on a hill at the commune’s highest point and its vineyards surround it in a single block. Its elevated position allows the vines to escape damaging conditions like frost which affect the region's lowlands, making it one to watch even in weaker vintages.

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