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Winemaker Notes
The 2019 Chateau Figeac is a highly acclaimed vintage, praised for its deep color, intense aroma, and exceptional balance. The winemaker notes highlight a deep, brilliant, amaranthine red hue with bright purple glints, indicating the fruit's ripeness. The nose is intensely aromatic, revealing notes of blueberries, Mara Des Bois strawberries, redcurrant jelly, blackcurrants, and blackberries, with underlying hints of chocolate box, lavender, and crushed rocks. The palate is described as delicious and dense, with a gentle, enveloping texture from the Merlot, leading to a long, balanced finish that showcases the fine, mineral texture of the Cabernets.
About Winery
Figeac is a very ancient property. In the 2nd century, the Figeacus family gave its name to the estate. Traces of this Gallo-Roman villa still exist today. In the 15th century, FIGEAC was one of five noble houses in Saint-Emilion and passed from the Lescours family, who at that time also owned Ausone, into the hands of the Cazes family, who transmitted it through marriage to the Carles in the 17th century. After the Manoncourt family acquired the property in 1892, FIGEAC was mainly managed by agricultural engineers.
However, in 1943, the year in which Thierry Manoncourt made his first vintage, a period of resurgencebegan for Figeac. Thierry Manoncourt realised in that year the huge potential of FIGEAC’s terroir and urged his mother, a Parisian, to hold on to the estate. In 1955 CHATEAU-FIGEAC became a First Great Classified Growth.
Today, Madame Manoncourt and her daughters are ably supported by highly skilled wine-growing teams and are as eager as ever to guarantee the long-term continuity of FIGEAC.
