February 29, 2024 - Pierre Morey/Fourrier Dinner at La Paulée de Los Angeles (Bicyclette, Los Angeles): Light ruby. Open, fragrant menthol. Wow, what a difference in weight and feel!! Medium to light bodied, fine long thread of soil. Classic blend of dull red berry, earth, tangy herb, excellent acidity, and light tannins. Delicate and subtle, no excess sweetness. Tasting this after the 2019 provides quite the shoch and shows what a freak of nature that wine is. Give me this today and for the next fifteen years. Best of the 3 CSJ vintages. Surprise-another beautiful 2017.
December 28, 2023 - Classic Fourrier with candied fruit, darkish cherry red fruit, sweet potpourri and spice. Generous sweetness on the palate with medium plus weight. Drinking well already.
January 23, 2021 - Restaurant purchase; first Fourrier Clos St Jacques; impressive; the nose shows lovely ripe dark fruits, mineral notes, lots of earthy/humus notes; with air the nose changes showing more black tea notes, a bit more floral and mineral, some sauvage hints with the fruit persisting; the palate shows very good density and concentration and excellent balance; long finish. Excellent. Lots of upside for the next 10+ years.
December 11, 2020 - Young, obviously, but still took 4-5 hours to open up. Once open nose of caramelized sugar quickly giving way to plum. Giving way to cherry and finally raisin (not in a bad way). Palate had a muddling of red fruit - nothing too distinguishable. Good wine overall if I were to blind but not living up to hype of a Fourrier CSJ
September 23, 2020 - Chambolle & Gevrey BYO (Grand Hyatt Hong Kong): Really Fourrier in style, in the middle, with great fruit and body. Relaxed palate. Too young. 93
July 26, 2020 - Mid colour; meaty, has a substance to its bouquet, blossoms with air - a lifted element; bold dark fruit, latent power, weighty. This carries through to an extended finish, tad burly. Merits more time.
March 7, 2020 - La Paulée de New York Grand Tasting (Pier Sixty, Chelsea Piers - New York NY): Walk around tasting. Black and red cherry with the same weight as Combe aux Moines, but more balance and grace today. Very elegant already with a very long finish. Better today vs when tasted at the domaine last summer.
March 7, 2020 - La Paulée 2020 Grand Tasting of 2017 Burgundy (Pier 60, New York): Less weight and volume than the Combe aux Moines, but more earth. Somewhat downplayed fruit compared to the AC and Cherbaudes, but what is there is sappy, spicy, and perfectly ripe. Like all of these wines, the exuberant fruit and moderate acidity allow great early accessibility and pleasure. The most complete and complex of the range at present. You'd have to be a complete grinch to suppress a smile while tasting this even if you gravitate toward less overtly fruity, more classic Burgundy.
July 3, 2019 - Domaine Fourrier Cellar Visit and Tasting (Gevrey-Chambertin): Tasting at the domaine. Once again this wonderfully combines red and black cherry aromas and flavors with some woodsy and meaty spice notes, plus black berry hints on finish. Very silky structure makes this even more charming. Not a powerhouse vintage for this wine, but very balanced.
February 3, 2019 - PoB - Burgundy 2017 En Primeur (Hong Kong): Walkabout tasting, only brief impressions. Wow, lots of cherries, spices, very aromatic, succulent palate. This will be grand.