Château Faugères
- Red
- France
- Saint-Émilion Grand Cru
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Cabernet Franc
- Malbec
- Merlot
- Petit Verdot
- Carménère
- Tracked vintages
- 24
- Community notes
- 372
- Merchant offers
- 152
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 94/ 1002022 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 85/ 100372 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £20per 75 cl2020 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026
- Drinking window
- 2012–2020past its window2005 · nearest vintage with a window
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 468 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Bordeaux Saint-Émilion.
- Body4.3 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.4 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.5 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.7 / 5
- DrySweet
- Black fruit · plum, blackberry, cassis, black fruit, blackcurrant
- Oak · oak, vanilla, tobacco, cedar, chocolate
- Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, minerals, graphite
- Red fruit · cherry, raspberry, red fruit, strawberry, red cherry
- Spice · licorice, pepper, mint, anise, cinnamon
- Floral · violet, lavender, perfume, lilac, chamomile
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Malbec, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Carménère. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
2005One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2020
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
- 2025unit not stated
- 2024unit not stated
- 202382drinkersunit not stated
- 202294criticunit not stated
- 202191criticunit not stated
- 202093critic£20 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026
- 201993criticunit not stated
- 201894critic£20 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2026
- 201791critic£22 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026
- 201693critic£37 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, February 2024
- 201593critic£34 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2021
- 201494critic£25 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2023
- 201374drinkersunit not stated
- 201185drinkersunit not stated
- 201089critic
- 200783drinkers
- 200690criticunit not stated
- 200591critic£23 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, May 2025
- 200487drinkers
- 200389critic
- 200090criticunit not stated
- 199987critic
- 199887criticunit not stated
- Past its windowits window has closed
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2018
- 94 / 100 from a critic
- Lowest price
- 2018
- £20 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond trade
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | £20 | 92.5 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026 |
| 2018 | £20 | 94 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2026 |
| 2017 | £22 | 91.4 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026 |
| 2016 | £37 | 92.7 | — | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, February 2024 |
| 2015 | £34 | 93 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2021 |
| 2014 | £25 | 93.7 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2023 |
| 2005 | £23 | 91.3 | No | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, May 2025 |
Where to go next
LWIN 1009668