In Bond Fine Wine. 2015 Château Peby Faugeres, Saint Emilion, Bordeaux, France. Grand Cru • Red Bordeaux in 6x75cl. Top critic score: 98/100 (WA). Sold in bond by Albany Vintners, independent fine wine merchants.
Jeb Dunnuck (JD) — 97/100 · JebDunnuck.com, 30/11/2017 · Drink 2026-2046
The 2015 Chateau 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…
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW (LPB) — 98/100 · Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com, 21/02/2018 · Drink 2021-2041
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 opule…
Antonio Galloni (AG) — 94–96/100 · Vinous, 01/04/2016
An extravagant, flamboyant wine, Silvio Denz's 2015 P'by Faug'res 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 Ro…