2024 Jean Faure
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Based on 65% Cabernet Franc, 30% Merlot, and 5% Malbec, the 2024 Château Jean Faure offers beautiful density in its pure red, blue, and black fruits, violet, and floral notes. Medium-bodied and fleshy on the palate, it has velvety tannins, impressive concentration, and seamlessly integrated oak. This serious, age-worthy wine has outstanding length and will benefit from short-term cellaring.
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William Kelley, Wine Advocate
Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux
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The 2024 Jean Faure, a blend of 65% Cabernet Franc, 30% Merlot and 5% Malbec, is one of the overachievers of the vintage, showcasing this estate's increasingly singular style. Wafting from the glass with aromas of sweet raspberries, black olive, rose petals and lavender, it's medium-bodied, layered and velvety, with powdery tannins, succulent acids and a suave, beautifully integrated profile. Readers wishing to be surprised by what the vintage was capable of in the right hands should look no further.
Medium plus intensity ruby red fruits, rhubarb, cherry fruits, plenty of lift, grippy, this is vivid and high energy, with bright fruits, raspberry leaf and peony floral aromatics, slate, pumice stone, white pepper and tobacco leaf, savoury and fragrant and a little austere. Organic certified for many years. Relatively low yield of 36hl/ha after some poor fruit set, but overall this is a good yield in the vintage. Harvest 25 September to 9 October. 30% new oak, 10% concrete eggs, 30% large oak casks. 3.56 pH,
The 2024 Jean Faure is impressive. Powerful and deep, with fine balance, Jean Faure is superb. Mocha, dried flowers, mint, tobacco and cedar lend tons of aromatic nuance. Jean Faure is a rare Saint-Émilion that is driven by Cabernet Franc, so its textural feel is quite unique. I loved it.