Château de Fonbel

Château de Fonbel, St Emilion, 2024

Name: Château de Fonbel, St Emilion
Brand: Château de Fonbel
Price: 70.5 GBP

90/100

Inside Bordeaux

87-89/100

The Wine Independent

89-91/100

Vinous

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2024
6x75cl
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£70.50

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Fonbel 2024 opens with a delightful wild perfume, exuding a sense of natural charm. The palate is juicy and inviting, offering a straightforward yet pleasing experience. This Vauthier wine will offer plenty of simple, early drinking pleasure.

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When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of upmost importance. A wine’s history – where it’s sourced from and how it’s been stored – can have an enormous influence on the eventual enjoyment it provides. At Justerini & Brooks, we can trace nearly every case back to the domaine, estate or Château it originally came from; we ship from over 200 wine producers throughout the world.

Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

The Journey

Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

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Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is audited by PwC every year.

Critic Reviews

87-89/100

Lisa Perrotti-Brown,

The Wine Independent

No tasting notes available

drinking window 2027 - 2035

date of review 05/2025

89-91/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2024 Château de Fonbel was picked from September 20 to October 5, with 30% raised in used barrel and the rest in tank. This has a more floral bouquet compared to the Simard and Haut-Simard, with finely delineated blackcurrant and raspberry fruit aromas mixed with touches of white flowers. The palate is medium-bodied with a saline entry. It's edgier and a little more angular than the aforementioned Saint-Émilions with a bit more backbone on the finish. I like the freshness here. It's simple but nicely focused.

drinking window 2027 - 2042

date of review 05/2025

90/100

Jane Anson,

Inside Bordeaux

Soft, fragrant, charming. Crisp, bright, vivid plum fruit that has the most grip of the three Vauthier estates on the southern slopes of St Emilion. Harvest 20 September to 5 October. 1/3 in oak, Philippe Baillarguet cellar master. Harvest 20 September to 5 October. 1/3 in oak.

drinking window 2026 - 2036

date of review 04/2025

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This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.