April 24, 2024 - An off bottle, muted and seemingly stripped of fruit, just lackluster with a tinny note on the front of the tongue.
March 1, 2024 - Gereiftes Rubin, deutlich Trübstoff. Gereifte Nase, etwas Waldboden, reife, rote Frucht, warm anmutend. Im Gaumen mit deutlicher Reife, die Säure ist zupackend, sehr markant, knackig, rotfruchtig, jedoch nicht so lang anhaltend wie in grossen Jahren. Trinken.
October 26, 2023 - Planning Session III (Chloe by Vincent, Mpls): Murky medium dark red color. Drank a glass over an hour plus. Tart cherry, cranberry, murky, tobacco leaf, becomes more earthy with air, great Gevrey spice notes emerge, deep, fairly intense with more acidity. I do get a touch of brown sugar on the nose after an hour or so. 92+pts.
July 30, 2023 - Another good vintage of Fourrier Combe aux Moines, my favorite wine in Fourrier’s lineup. Currently batting #2 in my regular lineup, so happened to be the regular batting order of Shohei Ohtani.
July 29, 2023 - C & YM Birthday Dinner (Empire Chinese Cuisine): 3 hrs after pouring to Voss bottle. Alluring aroma of potpourri, blueberry, cold fruits, on the palate a little weak after the stunning bouquet. Full dry and coarse tannins with high acid. Give additional points for the beautiful nose but sadly the palate did not match up. Needs a few more years of age.
July 29, 2023 - Birthday celebration for C/Y: Fourrier is one producer that has such a strong imprint that it’s possible to call blind - said that this was a ‘06 or ‘08 Fourrier Gevrey. A little of the ‘08 screechy acid but with the lifted fruit signature and spice of Fourrier. A little astringent, didn’t have the energy and delineation of the best vintages, but still very enjoyable.
June 7, 2023 - Nick's 2008 Burgundy - Noize (Noizé, London): 1/12. Nose shows pure red fruit - satrwberries, floral notes, touch of spice. Medium bodied, fresh and vibrant, spice, touch of savour, some grip on the good length finish. Excellent, certainly drinking.
June 7, 2023 - 2008 red Burgs (Noize): Flamboyant and a bit heady on the nose, with an exotic feel, fresh red fruit and some orange rind and rose... it smelled pretty great. Then more '2008' on the palate, which was sharp and lithe, with the flavour of cough sweets and a slightly tight and astringent side.
January 4, 2023 - Excellent aromas of ripe red berry fruits with a good earthy element. On the palate very tart and citric that overwhelms any nuance and clashes hard against the impressive underlying fruit qualities. Based on other notes here wonder if this is just a weird bottle. At best, this still needs time to integrate as unpleasant today. Admittedly, this was popped and poured. Will cork it, fridge it & try again tomorrow.
December 20, 2022 - A year since we had this last (Papies 91) and indeed has Improved and on top of that we decided to decant which definitely helped opening up the wine. Still this has a few more years before reaching full capacity.
Very elegant wine, properly well made according to the pedigree, firm but also with a soft feel, red fruited, soft smoky edge light spice. What Proper red Burgundy needs to be . We have one last bottle and this we will wait a few more years before before opening. 93