2020 Fourcas Hosten
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Julia Harding MW, jancisrobinson.com
Julia Harding MW, jancisrobinson.com
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The 2020 Château Fourcas Hosten is a pretty, elegant 2020 offering complex red fruits, spice, and floral aromatics, medium body, and a good finish with firmer tannins.
The 2020 Fourcas Hosten just needs a little more delineation and focus on the nose, here outplayed by the Fourcas Dupré. The palate is medium-bodied with grippy tannins. Drier than expected, with some wood tannins that dominate the finish. This is a bit tough at the moment.
The 2020 Fourcas Hosten offers up a bouquet of dried herbs, crushed flowers, black cherry and cedar. I like the aromatics quite a bit, I just wish there was a hint more mid-palate sweetness, as the 2020 comes across as compact and a touch angular. Even so, there is plenty to like.
About the producer
In the heart of Listrac, surrounded by three hectares of gardens, this château has just over 40 hectares of vines – with Merlot planted on clay-limestone and Cabernet Sauvignon on the gravel plateau.