Community Tasting Notes 7

• Paul S wrote: 91 points

  October 31, 2014 - Welcome Home Peter! (Park Palace, Grand Park Hotel): Pretty nice, but this showed some of the bad, lean sides of the 1998 vintage - about time to start drinking up I think. It had a lovely matured nose, starting with wafts of mushrooms and earth and meat, a little spice and some stony hints, and then moving into lush dark fruited aromas of plums and black cherries lifting into brighter red fruit territory with time, all this laced with little woody touches. The palate flattered to deceive somewhat, starting out on the attack with a semblance of the round, plump fruit promised on the nose - plums and black cherries I thought. However, these quickly faded into the background, leaving behind more secondary notes of earth, spice and mineral riding on a structure that still showed a bit of lean, sinewy toughness, with a little bite of stern tannins and bright, grapefruity acidity. It finished a little leaner too, with a touch of capsicum and brambly herb and spice. Quite pleasant generally, and pretty good with suckling pig, but just on the verge of drying out I think. Drink up.

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• western wrote: 88 points

  July 8, 2011 - Light garnet colour. Nose offers up ripe small red fruit, soil, spice but disipates rather quickly. Very mature burg with little fruit left and quite drying tannins but reasonable acidity. Drink up.

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• Anonymous wrote: 92 points

  October 9, 2009 - I've opened 4 or 5 bottles of this over the past couple of years and not every bottle of this has been this good....this one is medium bodied but it still has excellent substance and weight on the palate with fresh red fruit, earth, sprigs of herbs and a bit of tar. There is good balance with liquid stones and moderate acid. Lovely finish too.

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• Anonymous wrote: 88 points

  September 5, 2009 - This was better a year ago. The fruit is less prominent now and seems to be fading. There is still good acidity, some spice and milder red fruit. It's not a complicated wine but it is still enjoyable with food. It's good but far from great. This note is entirely consistent with another bottle opened a month ago.

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• brucegrayseattle@gmail.com wrote:

  April 13, 2009 - Translucent ruby color with rasberry, citrus and wet leaf nose that opend quite a bit after about half an hour. Nervy acidity wtih bright, broad red fruits going down. Delicious.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1998
• Type Red
• Producer Domaine Fourrier
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation Vieille Vigne
• Vineyard Cherbaudes
• Country France
• Region Burgundy
• SubRegion Côte de Nuits
• Appellation Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru

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• In Cellars 12 (30%)
• Consumed 28 (70%)

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