Half 10/12. Duller in the glass than previously, still mid to full ruby but a dullness and lacklustre appearance. A melange of deep cherry fruit with damp earth and meatier notes starting to develop. Densely silky, good fruit, and more of a discernible Gevrey than producer character, though a sense of vigneron lingers. This is really very good village wine. ****
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From half bottle. Young and juicy 2009 and albeit a touch one dimensional at this stage it was also exceptionally delicious .Polished , well round and silky. A bit too fruity ( in a non confectionery way of course) at this stage and this would be so good once a secondary side develops! 91 ish for now
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So good last week, we had to have another bottle, and it was fantastic again. Sap, undergrowth, bruised strawberry-like fruit - lots of layers going on and on.
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Mid red. Very round and gentle. At present a bit one dimensional but the fruit is pleasant but another 10+ years and should develop very well as everything seems balanced and in the right place.
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4/12, good cork. Pale/med garnet core, wide pale garnet rim.Lovely pure strawberry fruit, aromatic, florals, touch of vanilla. Medium bodied, elegant and pure, strawberry, red cherry, vanila, slight touch of game, soft tannins, lovely vibrant acids somewhat in defiance of the vintage, good length, harmonious finish. Lovely.
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Jason’s ‘top’ village Burgundy (67 Pall Mall, London): This needed a shake as too much CO2 which resulted in a pop, job done! Red fruited on the nose and came over as rich yet it remained graceful, really good concentration and purity. In a good spot. From Zalto Burgundy.
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Jason's 'top' village Burgundy (67 Pall Mall): Some volatility, real lift and some tempting gamey notes - very grown-up and appealing. Lip-smacking on the palate, with bright grippy fruit, good acidity and a long finish. Not very 2009, but in a good way.
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Jason’s ‘top’ village Burgundy (67 Pall Mall): Trademark pre-shake spritz. Reductive, ‘oaky’ nose that the half bottle version has started to lose. This remains a lovely bottle. Still more Fourrier than Gevrey, but with a Gevrey character and weight. A slight earthiness with real density of fruit coming through. Lovely stuff. Just a little more bass. ****
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Light ruby, turning brownish at the rims. Compared with my last bottle, less strawberries, less red cherries and raspberry , more mushrooms and automn leaves. Very dense and quite complex on the palate, with a core of raspberry acidity, sweet cherries, coated by spices and underbrush. Don’t think it will go much further from here. Drink
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Last bottle of this. Muddled red color. Very similar to the prior bottle a year ago. Medium weight, very nice sap. Some char and game to complement the still bright, tart cherry fruit (this really evokes literal "griottes"). Lovely soil base and citrus peel as well. The last few bottles have convinced me that as showy and fruity as these wines were early on, there is more than meets the eye; they are truly Burgundian and have the capacity to shed their fat and become something more with age. An outstanding bottle to wrap up my experience with this above class village wine.
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This is good. Much better than the 1er Vougeot was on day 1. It's got the classic Fourrier fruit - very forward, quite ripe, with a bit of candied and jammy quality (in a good way). Ripe strawberries and cherries. Combined with that is a wonderful savory - meaty - earthy note that is very Gevrey. Perfumed and pure with great lift. A bit of spice and florals too. The palate is similar but even better - the melange of the sweet fruit and the meaty-savory goodness is wonderful and even though it is light it really fills the mouth with flavor - good acid, nice balance and lift. There's a citrus squirt that comes on in the mid palate when a glass is first poured. The savory note expands and brings in a stemmy nuance as well and these carry into the long and crisp finish. This is a great bottle of red burg and stellar for a village wine. Nose - 5/6, Palate - 5.5/6, Finish - 5/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1.5/2 = 17/20.
Day 2: This really dropped off from day 1 - the nose isn't nearly as perfumed or explosive, and the palate seems more muted as well.
Day 3: Better than day 2 but not up to how good this was on day 1. Some fruit and nice savory notes. But if you can, drain it when opened.
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The nose was signing, just incredible and explosive red fruits. The palate was a bit more subdued, still some structure but good fruit coming through. Just gaining some complexity so certainly has room to age. Nose 96, Palate 90, Overall 93.
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Half. Just lovely. The richness and ripeness of the vintage balanced by the Fourrier bright red fruit signature. Just starting to show some hints of development. I fear I shall finish the case before it reaches proper maturity. Some sediment in the last couple of sips’ worth. ****
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Popped and poured. This is just lovely. Sappy red cherry, garrique, and earth come through. Medium bodied with lots of energy, great balance, very pure with little, no oak treatment.
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Ruby centre with brown bricking. Strawberry, dark fruit notes, earth, forest floor. Complex and elegant palate, with a lifted, sweet core of fruit, and bright acids.
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This was just gorgeous punching way above its class as a village wine. A dense and concentrated stew of dark cherries and strawberries with a sensual fruit based delicate nose. I think this could possibly be one of the top village Gevrey wines available. At a great point and will drink over the next 5 years. Fr magnum.
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Opened about an hour before pouring. Light ruby center. More char and funk on the nose than I've usually encountered with Fourrier, but plenty of dark red fruit as well. Light, earthy, and tangy with excellent black cherry fruit, an emerging top note of citrus peel, and some botanical herbs for complexity. There is definitely more to this than the stupendous core of sweet red fruit that it exhibited when it was very young. Excellent village Gevrey. Perhaps at peak now.
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PnP. Perfumed and aromatic. Sweet strawberries and cherry. Earthy notes. Palate is ripe, but there’s a balance with the acid and fine tannins. Drinking well.
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Half. Not quite as full and vibrant as a glorious half earlier in the year, but very good nonetheless. The fruit a little darker and more serious, starting to develop a hint of earthy depth. Lovely and all too drinkable. ****
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Slow oxed for an hour. The nose is a little modest and pinched with aroma of cherries and herbs coming through. The palate is lovely, weightless showing great finesse. Ripe red cherries, hard candy,and herbs come through caressed by silky tannins. This is really delicious and enjoyable right now albeit not particularly complex. I would drink this over the next five years.
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Very enjoyable, albeit fairly evolved. Very nice ethereal, acidic minerality, combined with stewed red fruit and just a little bit of tomato/bloody mary, beef broth savoriness. A little surprising, but quite enjoyable. Would drink, rather than hold.
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Dark ruby. Stewed strawberries with red cherries ans raspberry nose, supplemented by mushrooms and automn leaves. Perfect balance on the palate. Really nice.
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Deep ruby. Low pitched black cherry. Medium weight, quite concentrated. Long and earthy. The fruit is no longer as exuberant and sweet, but this is still awfully good.
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Dinner at Tonny's (Tonny Restaurant): Lovely again, this was such a nice Gevrey village. The nose had a 2009 ripeness in its exuberant aromas of cherries and red berries laced with spice, earth and a bit of meatiness, this wreathed in a lovely floral perfume. Really nice. The palate was at a beautiful place now. Rich and ripe, with lovely layers of cherries, berries and a little bit of earth and spice, but also beautifully pure, transparent and impeccably balanced, with fresh acidity and wonderfully shaped tannins, all this leading into a lipsmacking finish of sake cherries infused with a bit of warm spice. Chewy, pure and delicious, this was a wonderful village. I thought it was a 1er Cru blind. Even better than the last bottle I had a couple of years back - really hitting its stride now.
Half. What a glorious bottle — this has been getting better and better out of half bottle over the past seven years. A quick shake to release the CO2 and then poured. Lovely bright ruby. Quite dense but fine velvet to silky texture, mid red fruit. Long and joyous. ****
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3/12, excellent cork. Pale/medium garnet core, pale garnet rim. Intense, youthful nose with pure red fruit, florals, spice. Medium/full bodied, red fruit to the fore on the palate too, showing lovely purity with excellent depth, soft tannins, vibrant acidity and a long, lightly savoury finish. Just delicious.
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Fourrier: PNP, opened a little fruit-bomby, almost like a Rochioli, nice hit of raspberry followed by plum; as it airs more complexity in the mid-palate and some distinctively Gevrey notes (brambles, white pepper). Followed over a couple more hours—very pure, clean throughout, fruit recedes, more complex burg appears. Glad I own more. Bought and cellared on release.
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Another gorgeous showing of this wine. Crushed rocks and so much more minerality than I have noticed before on the palate. Red fruits. Wild strawberry Sour cherries on both the nose and palate. A definite sweetness on fruit on the palate. Attractive acidity. Delicate tannins. Super elegant. Ethereal. This is a wine drinking really well currently and showing enough to have confidence that it has a good future ahead.
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A Few Days in Seattle; 7/19/2019-7/21/2019: Light ruby with maturing rim. Beautiful red fruit with a citric lift. Naturally sweet red berry, wonderful sappiness, and a fine, lingering earthy base. Utterly seductive and amazingly deep for a village wine. Bravo!
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Bourgogne and Village Dinner (Tonny Restaurant, Geylang Lor 3, Singapore): Always lovely - Fourrier's Gevreys are one of the benchmark village wines vintage-in and vintage-out for me. This was no exception. It had a beautiful nose that was just pure Gevrey in its notes of red cherry and earth and sweet florals - roses I thought - all lightly infused with gentle meaty hints. Lovely stuff. The palate was perhaps drinking the best out of the few bottles of the 2009 Gevrey VV that I have since release, with velvety tannins and bright acidity lending a really defined feel to the wine's flavours of cherries, spice and dried earthy mineral. This was a really refined Gevrey village, all the way into a well-delineated finish still traced with by some very fine-boned tannins. Very good indeed, and starting to drink well now.
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PnP and slow ox about 30 minutes prior to drinking at Chianti Grill. I loved this producer more about six years ago but my palate has moved ever so steadily towards more traditionally styled Burg producers like J&L Trapet. Today this reminds me more of many top notch Oregon producers. Its a great tweener but I'd like a little more emphasis on finesse, earth, minerality and tertiary. Even at 10yrs+ years in, this is exuberantly ripe with lush sweet cherry and raspberry along with some unwelcome cola notes. Very pure and delicious but lacking subtly and depth. The nose offers some earth & tertiary making it more interesting than the palate. Enjoyed it but its much closer to Oregon PN than Gevrey Chambertin, for my palate. The alc seems like it more like 13-14% too. Tasty as hell but lacking a bit of terroir authenticity. I do need to try one of my, likely more balanced, 2010s of this. Paid $60 and certainly worth that. For me, the recent releases at $90+ are overpriced.
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Opened 4+hrs in advance, a great wine. Open and lush, beautiful, pure red fruit. So fourrier in style. Great earth and gev characteristics. Really fresh. Delicious now and will continue to last, but no need to wait forever. Interestingly, still noticed just a hint of reduction on the nose. XXX
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Just delicious. Ripe cherry, earthy, quite sappy on finish. Punches above its level for shear deliciousness and pleasure. Great now but should hold for next few years.
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More mature than the last bottle I had but I love the gentle soil and earthiness on the nose and palate, this bottle also offered a bit more herbal and iron sensation too, with generous purple fruits and lingering acidity
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Wonderful wine. Developed perfectly with lots of fresh fruit balanced with tertiary notes of mushrooms, moss, wet forest floor, spices and general ripeness. Complex and concentrated.
50+5+13+16+8 (92p)
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I’ve posted on this wine a few times before and this was just as good as prior bottles. A very intoxicating nose of sweet red fruits. I always find it balanced, perfumed, elegant. On the palate, more Pinot purity, elegance, delicacy. Still quite vibrant, definitely more red than black fruits for my taste. I don’t find this showing the heat of the vintage particularly and overall a really enjoyable wine.
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Burdgundy village wines from top producers (East Treasure, Clarke Quay, Singapore): Lovely - this was easily one of the top 2 or 3 wines on the night. It had a great nose, a lovely representation of Gevrey, with notes of earth and mineral, sweet red fruit and a bit of spice, all this seasoned with just a hint of the sesame and cola that I always associate with Fourrier. A really nice nose. The palate was absolutely en pointe too. Surprisingly bright and juicy for a 2009, this showed silky tannins and good acidity laced through fresh, crunchy flavours of red cherries and lovely bright florals. This showed all of the purity, clarity and transparency that I love in a good Fourrier. The back palate had a nice twist of spice and just a bit of minerality gliding into a graceful finish too. It will not be the longest lived wine, but this will give a lot of pleasure over the next decade. Delicious stuff.
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My last half bottle. Lovely balanced wine with raspberries and quite juicy acidity for an 09. After having an 05 of the same last year that was descending from its plateau I thought it was time to polish this last one off. Whilst it could age for years longer it’s in such a good place I would drink.
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Streaky nose of ripe red fruits and turning into tobacco and leathery notes with undergrowth undertone. Really pure, precise, and drinking beautifully. No rush at all, but very enjoyable right now. Excellent
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Complete opposite of the lignier next to it. Quite brilliant and pretty on the nose. Very fresh. Ripe red fruit that was so very pure. No hint of wood. Palate was very precise for an 09. Sweet red fruit up front but very high acid. Linear. Fine tannins and a long finish. This appears to already be showing its cards in a way the lignier next to it did not.
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Oh boy. This is fabulous. Quintessential Pinot for my palate. So pure. So elegant and balanced. Sweet red fruits on the nose and palate. Super elegant and pure on the palate (esp for a 2009). No evidence of heat. Extra bit of complexity vs the 2011 vintage which I’ve really enjoyed). Light, approachable but serious and complex.
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Very consistent with last bottle. The fruit is amazing. So pure. Balanced. Elegant. Precise. Complex. Very tiny bit of the heaviness of the 09 vintage heat once the wine warms up too much. This is really a wine that’s so easy to enjoy. Pure pleasure.
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Tasted blind. Out of the five village wines we had together, I rated this my wine of the night, probably due to my personal preference of Fourrier style. The nose was very floral and elegant, candies fruits, purple cherry, on the palate, raspberry, red plum, modest earthiness, gentle spices, and very nice and lingering acidity (which I really enjoyed) on the back palate.
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Consistent with previous note. Floral nose with orange peel, nail polish and raspberries. Palate was juicy and forward but slightly lean. Drinking at its peak now.
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Properly rich and lush Jose. A touch of damp earth and smoke. Lovely balance on the palate. Sweet fruit, good acidity. Just in transition from 2009 Fourrier to Gevrey. ****
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Opened for 30 minutes. Explosive nose of mostly red and black fruits. Ripe (like many ‘09’s) powerful, but good structure and enough acid to make a great mouth feel. Keeps improving. No shame drinking now but will also evolve and improve.
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The last bottle of my case. Bought this at $56 per bottle and worth every penny. Every bit as good as I remember it. For tasting notes, see my prior reviews over the last three years. It hasn’t changed much over time, except expressing more tertiary notes. Delicious!
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Zachys Capital Collection Pre-Auction BYO Wine Dinner (Fiola Mare - Washington, DC): Late night glass, brief note. Very rich and powerful in the fashion of the vintage with plenty of lush black fruit and roasted meat. Great fruit purity seems to make this nicely elegant. Very good now, but this can easily evolve in interesting ways over the next decade.
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The nose explodes. Full of fruit but still lacking tertiary characteristics, this was a wonderful wine with 1er Cru nose. Great now but long life ahead. Great village wine.
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Lovely nose with depth and elegance, developed fruit tones, herbs. Taste very good, red and dark fruit, some sweetness, minerality, a bit low on acidity, maybe that is the year. Fine.
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My second tasting of this wine in the last six months. Green herbs on dark cherry fruits, with vanilla oak adding a sweeter note in the background. Lovely balance, still quite primary too. 92 points.
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Coming into a great drinking window, but still best on day two. Nice perfumed nose. Rich black cherry fruit on palate. A bit lite on minerality. Delicious.
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2/12 - good cork. Medium garnet core, pale garnet rim. Fragrant nose, pure red fruit, touch of earth, vanilla. Medium/full bodied, piercingly pure red fruit again, very fine but still pertinent tannins, quite rich, fresh acidity, impressively long and expansive on the finish. Excellent, drinking well, though still on the up.
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Candied cherry, candied apple, caramel, hints of watermelon and grapefruit; smooth, silky, slithering, tantalizing; moderately long-lived, not very complex but quite engaging
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Haven't had this wine in the last 3 years. Decided to Coravin one of my bottles. Typical Fourrier nose with pure red fruit and floral and mineral acidic tones, also Gevrey earthy tones. I love this nose! Taste the same pure red fruit, acidity and nice round tannins. This is really lovely. Not at all 2009, no tartness. Very fine.
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This is so seductive on the nose and just screams Gevrey. I underestimated this wine the first time around and regrettably so. Lots of bright red and black cherry fruit with earth and subtle spice. Starts off a little tight, but this opened up and expanded throughout the evening. There’s a stony/mineral underbelly that surfaces after a few hours that gives the wine more focused and less 2009-ish. Great fruit purity that is silky and refined but not polished with very good balance that puts it at the top of its class. Despite the negative talk associated with the vintage, this is classic Burgundy. 94+.
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Half. This has lost its glossy reductive fat and sis showing a bit brighter and lighter red fruit, slightly higher acidity, and a little more transparency. Silkier. Lovely, but not quite as cossetting as previous halves. ***
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Light ruby with some turbidity. Inviting aromatics of candied red fruit and a whiff of herbs. Light to medium bodied. Brown sugar, red berry, and a coating of earth. Adequate acidity and very low residual tannin. Lovely and not too sweet. Great to drink this completely ready bottle after trying the Fourriers at the La Paulée vertical tasting earlier today.
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Bouquet qui détonne suite aux autres vins, fruité lui aussi mais aussi joliment musqué, lui donnant une dimension plus mystérieuse. La bouche possède un beau volume, c'est tendre, savoureux et la longueur est très appréciable. Plus épanoui que les autres. Donne l'impression d'un vin fait à l'ancienne. 92
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Good cork. Medium, bright ruby core, pale ruby/garnet rim. Nose shows astonishingly pure, youthful, ripe strawberry fruit, florals. Medium/full bodied, generous, silky with flamboyant, pure red fruits, darker fruit notes from time to time, still youthful but absolutely compelling, impressively deep and expansive with fine tannins and decent freshening acidity which carries a very good length pure fruited finish, with traces of fine tannin at the tail end. Delicious, very drinkable but should also age well.
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Half. Classic Fourrier gloss, starting to show a bit darker and a touch more savoury. Tightening up? Not really, but certainly starting to show a more serious edge. ***1/2
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I love this wine... I should have purchased 10 cases vs just one. A great sexy expression of Gevrey with bright red fruit and cranberry laced with damp earth, truffle / mushroom. A great value wine from an outstanding Bugrundy vintage. Consistent tasting notes prior. Love it!
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Better showing than last year and was best at 3 hours of air. Great nose of high toned red fruits, forest floor and potpourri. Palate as not as impressive as the nose, with elegance but a bit simple.
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If this is a guide to Fourrier's wines I'm a huge fan. There's a real vibrancy / energy to the wine and is almost translucent - not in colour but in flavour. Its not especially complex but the way its been brought together makes it utterly delicious. The other point is it seems extremely approachable now - be interested to see whether the 1er and GCs from Fourrier are equally approachable young.
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A great wine... Very similar note to my tasting on 2/15/15. Only difference this time is the finish had a little prickle on the finish. Not sure if it was bottle variation because I've had this exact wine from the same case about 6 times and this experience was a first. Nevertheless, a great Burg!
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The wine was floral with flower, violets, red fruits, cedar wood, oak and caramel. The palate was smoothe and sweet, but not too much depth. I think it is ready to drink now with 30mins breathing in the bottle. The wine tasted like a chambolle musigny to me.
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Wow! Knock your socks off WOW! This wine is what I love about Burgundy and Gevrey. While it has an incredible core of bright red raspberry, bing cherry, with a slight cranberry tartness, the mineral, earth, and a slight touch of mushroom shines through telling you were it is from. I'm surprised that it is already showing secondary characteristics revealing its terroir in Gevrey. No hard edges or tannin... Drinking great now, but will no doubt get better with age. I love this wine! This is a wine for nobility and kings. What a pleasure to have the opportunity to enjoy it.
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Rated after 3 hours of air. Subtle nose of cloves and black fruit. Palate has complexity and length but is not quite integrated. Sourness and acidity needs to mellow. Nicer when tasting than it was at the table. Try again in a year.
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Red Burgundy tasting (@ Rotterdam, Netherlands): Hello, old friend… With a medium intense translucent ruby core, we’re more into familiar territory. While beyond medium intense on the nose, a slight spritzy fuzziness takes a few minutes to dissipate and then its black fruits resemble blackberries, but I also smell an unprecedented note of bacon/pancetta. The vintage shines through in its medium-plus body, while on the mid-palate medium acidity lends sufficient freshness to this consistently high-quality village. Medium-minus fine tannins are plushy enough to shore up medium-plus intense flavours of blueberry, which are both generous and mouth-filling. The finish does a convincing 20-25 seconds and while this wine surely is a shockingly ripe, open and delicious drink at the moment, it is definitely not the most typical of 10+ vintages I’ve tasted so far. I’ll give 88 points for this showing and perhaps medium-term cellaring will see this wine transform and warrant a slightly higher score ............. TN Mike de Lange.
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Decanted three hours, but checked serially. Burgundy shoe polish color. This is wholly impressive for its balance, roundness and generosity. Magnetic nose of earth and violets. Sappy, ripe (not overripe) entry. This offers flat grape soda, plums and a bright, slightly sour finish that just dances. Excellent. 91
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PnP. This has to be one of the surest buys from Burgundy! I only go back to the '06 vintage and every blt I've opened has been outstanding. To anyone who dare utters that worn out cliche "Burgundy is a minefield", I have the perfect retort."Have you tried Fourrier's Gevrey Chambertin VV?". The '09 is at another level still in terms of finesse and depth. The color is a beautiful translucent crimson/red. The nose,as soon as opened, gushes with fresh red fruit and that often ellusive forest floor aroma we Burgheads love. I spent nearly an hour smelling this before I tasted it. The weightless palate will suprise you with its depth and wealth of red fruit and spice flavors. Very happy to own three more of these and I may go back for an addl 3 more. Never tried a Burg? Try one of these.
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Felt a little bit different from past bottles, with an extra tautness at the beginning - but this just made the explosion of black fruits, earth, etc, etc that followed all the more thrilling
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Outstanding wine as usual, my last 375mil bottle. Took about an hour to open up. Nose was hint of dark fruit with raspberry prominent, light oak and earth, some pipe tobacco. On the palette much the similar with the raspberry and blackberry fruit up front, nice strong dry finish. Certainly could have kept it down for a few more years but with a nice meal of sashimi grade tuna and pan seared potatoes could not resist!
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Gevrey nose, sous-bois with caramel. Sweet caramel taste, lovely acidity, good depth and concentration, minerals, long finish. This is a thrilling wine, drinks wonderfully. Old vine magic.
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Top Burgundy Tasting at the Sotto Lounge. (Netherlands): The bouquet is pure and classy, with sappy cherries a touch of coffee. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, with a sappy core of fruit, fine structure and a fine very pure finish. In a word, delicious!
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Delicious 2009 entry level burg. Great nose of red fruit, game, meat and earth. The palate is suave and delicious. Should drink great for a number of years.
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Chartogne-Taillet, Michel Juillot, Dauvissat, Boisson-Vadot, David Clark, Emmanuel Rouget, Fourrier.: This Vieilles Vignes bottling comes from the border with Brochon. This bottle is sourced from somewhere else and not as good as the 2009 Gevrey v.v. bottling we’ve had before. In any case, on the nose a strange brew of dark berries and dark soil tones. On the palate the wine is medium-full, with an abundance of dry tannins adding astringency to the finish. Bottle Variation – what’s the Story?!
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JM's Old World Education (Pine Close): Woah - what a village! I love Fourrier's Gevrey VV in almost every vintage, but there was something extra special with the 2009. It had such a beautiful nose that everyone on the table guessed it was a Chambolle without a second thought. After a short half an hour in the decanter, lovely florals just soared out of the glass, with violets and roses wafting around pure red cherry aromas, all undergirded with just a touch of funky, mushroomy undergrowth. A knockout nose. It was absolutely lovely on the palate too. This showed the typical, sappy richness of a 2009 Gevrey, with sweet notes of red cherries and sour plums galore. Yet such was the wonderful balance on the wine that it came across lithe, elegant, almost floatingly ethereal, with a beautiful juiciness and purity to its fruit, even though it was still extremely primary. Fine, silky tannins then carried the wine into a lovely finish, with more sour plums - almost umeshu-like here - and pretty floral notes floating away into the distance. Not quite as rich and fleshy here as on the attack and the midpalate, yet still really charming. What a wonderful wine - quite the archetype of the ethereal, effortless Burgundy; something that can actually be quite difficult to find these days! I only wish I had bought more. Drinking beautifully even now, this should age wonderfully over its first decade and more.
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(jm's old world education@paulS') Dark purple in glass, with a funky Burg nose, savoury meats and smallgoods, and dusty ash. Lovely concentration and focus, while floating lightly, almost effortlessly, showing juicy plums, dark ash, orange-peel notes, juicy acidity. Entirely elegant, light and rounded. Wonderful stuff, even as a village!
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Decanted 5 hours and rebottled. Similar to previous TN but this has settled down and has integrated significantly over the last 6 months. Beautiful dark cherry fruit with notes of damp earth, mushroom and a little sweet candy on the mid palate. Silky smooth mouthfeel with a great balance between fruit and acidity. Medium length finish with manageable tannins. This is still young and will boubtless improve with age but it is drinking very nicely just now with p lenty of air. Extremely good.
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not as good as the 2006 I had earlier, but I think that it just needs time, the potential is surely there. does come off slightly 2009-ish but not over the top. lots of red fruit, gervy punch and earthy tones. some might not call this classic but it is very well made. still too young, would hold off on this longer.
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Switched to this from the Solon 2010 which was showing surprisingly tight. This was much easier - fuller, richer, sweeter, lots of layers of black fruits. Lovely
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A superb expression with exemplary depth. The nose takes you from a deep, rich meatiness to bright raspberry right back down to dry slickrock and rainforest showers. One sip yields an almost candy-like explosion of cherry juice, and the next shows prickly tannins, granite and cremini mushrooms. Acidity is superb. My only complaint is a bit of a thin finish; you catch the acid and the minerality, but it quickly tapers off leaving you with very little to savor.
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Outstanding. As usual, benefits from double-decant. Gets very earthy quite quickly. Dark-fruited. Tannins prominent on the finish, but integrated; there is a fair bit of interesting tension on the finish generally. All bodes well for a great drinking experience now and down the line for at least the next 10 years.
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Just spectacular every time. No obvious wine-making flaws, no off-flavors, jut an incredible expression of youthful pinot noir. I have no incentive to age this as it's fantastic now, albeit much better after 2-3 hours of air. Decant, and enjoy...silk palate, fresh dark raspberries, strawberries, earth, amazingness...I'm 100% sure this will be a rockstar wine in 10+ years, but why wait?
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Deep garnet with rather thick legs. On the nose are leathery, earthy notes accentuated by some acidic red fruits. Rather fruity with slight salinity on the palate with pronounced acidity at the start before weak tannins kick in. There is some sweetness, redolent of prunes, to the end as well. A very very well balanced burgundy between the tart and the bitter.
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Spectacular, as ever. Without being in any was "big", it has this all enveloping presence, gushing black fruits with spice, earth, lifted by a touch of spritz.
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On this regular thuesday,i came home thirsty and i was thinking to myself;lets open a nice burgundy. so i opened my one and only gevrey village from fourrier,and what a great bottle of wine this was! my brains were probably in the wine marinade when this wine came on the market. i symply forgot to order 12 of these wonderfull wine,and i am a stupid ..rse that i forgot to buy this freak of a vintage,so for everyone who did buy,i would say i am not jealous at all =(!
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Wow, okay. This is pretty magnificent with a savory olive brine, some suntan lotion-y white florals. Really makes me harken back upon Clape Cornas or maybe a Dard & Ribot St Joseph or some other floral, meaty northern Rhone Syrah--but in a far lighter package. Really regretted the last drops disappearing on this.
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A big wow. Right away it comes across the palate like a grand cru (with none of the usual spritz, either!), mouthfilling but ethereal and oh-so-refined at the same time. There is no way anyone guesses this is a village wine if poured blind. As it sits it starts to lose just a touch of density but it's still filling in the same positive space, just airier and maybe a bit more transparent. I think there was a touch of stony earth here but that's not really the point, this one is all about that pampering texture and mouthfeel.
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10th Burgundy tasting prt 2 (Rotterdam, Netherlands): This wine from my formerly favourite domaine has a medium-plus intense, sombre ruby coloured and nearly opaque core. The nose is not quite medium-plus intense, but offers up lifted notes of pure raspberry and a hint of ferrous minerals.A bit more full-bodied than is usual for this bottling at medium-plus, this wine is relatively nervously styled regardless. Pure and elegant, medium-plus intense flavours of again raspberry and iron are joined by a touch of gaminess and supported by medium-plus refined acidity and medium-minus smooth tannins, which latter have a modicum of grip to them. Mid-palate balance is quite good and while this will probably not be the most long-lived example of this cuvee, it sure is a great and balanced drink now. The finish does an easy 20-25 seconds worth of balance and as it is now, this wine is worth 88 points to me. It may improve somewhat over the next 5 years..................TN Mike de Lange
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Earthy cherry and caramel nose, taste concentrated blue and red fruit, tart, some over-ripe tones, however these are followed by a cool, fresh and lovely midpalate with minerals and refined acidity, followed by a long finish. Will be wonderfull in a few years.
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2009 tasting from 375 w sous vide duck confit: as always, fourrier has such a light touch on his wines. one would almost think chambolle on this wine as opposed to gevrey. but clearly delicious...
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Half bottle. Dark ruby to cherry red. Dark fruited, fresh and vibrant. Good acidity giving a sense of ripeness but without being lush. Decent length and grip. Promising. ***
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Opened and poured, this wine begins reserved with aromatics of tart red cherry and subtle earth notes. Airings brings out black fruit and more depth on the bouquet. The color is a medium to dark ruby. The medium bodied palate also requires airing to show its best. Overtime this develops excellent balance and length on the palate. This wine will benefit from an additional two to three years of bottle age to show its best.
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From 375. Still the slightest bit reductive after a one hour decant. Fresh cherry, raspberry nose with floral, earthy, and iron notes. Tart cherry, mineral, soil-inflected palate. Iron-laden, sour cherry acidity with fine tannins. Obviously needs more time, but accessible now. Recommended.
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Decanted 5 hours and rebottled. Even after the decant this was still a bit tight and obviously young. Red and black cherry fruit on the nose with earth and a touch of spice. Black and red cherry fruit on the palate with a hint of sweetness but currently being held in check by grippy tannins. Nice minerality and balance although this doesn't have the bracing acidity of the '08 bottling. More austere than the '08 and will need some time to show its' best but certainly has lots of potential. Glad to have several of these for the future. (NR)
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Having this after the sharp and lean Muzard accentuated the warmth and ripeness of this, and the oakiness too. But it's still a brilliant multifaceted Gevrey villages, with fruit, iron and earth all present and correct
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2012 - 2nd dinner with K-M-T-R (Jade Palace Seafood Restaurant, The Forum Shopping Mall, Orchard Road): Alcohol :: 13% Opened for 4hrs w/o cork on it and the wine was still tight and reductive. Thus I decided to double decanted for another 3hrs before served which is obviously doing good to the wine. Deep vibrant ruby red. Still a little bit shy, sweet on the core with red and black cherry, dark plum intermixed with soft aromas of meatiness, savoriness and earthiness. The palate is driven by excellent mineral structure with juicy sweet dark fruits and mild spiciness. Silky tannin, medium length finish that's very clean and pure. Savory and lots of concentration of fruits. Drinking beautifully with proper preparation but it will certainly improves more in the bottle. Outstanding village. 88-89+
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Nose: Sour cherries mixed with sweet rasperries and a bit of rubber/medicin. On the palate: Red berries (redcurrant?) and quite distinct acidity. Nicely rounded tannins lingering for a while on the finish. Especially on the palate I miss some character and terroir but who knows how it will develop with age...
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No formal notes, but this was delicious. Much more interesting / complex than I remember the '08 version being. Light and fresh; surprisingly so given the vintage reputation.
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Needed about an hour to get rid of the CO2. Then a deep and perfumy nose of dark Gevrey character. In the mouth smooth with wonderfully intense and deep flavors and nice earthy undertones. There’s some notable tannin, but it is so smooth that it only enhances the mouthfeel. This is truly impressive for a village wine and has none of those negative attributes (over-ripeness, too low acidity etc.) associated with some 2009 red Burgundies. Drinking absolutely great now, but must be given time for the gas to dissipate.
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Light bluish red color, fresh nose of spices, red fruit (cherries and rasberry), candied fruit and slight new oak. Light to medium palate, ripe fruit and balanced acidity, fine tannins, Slight minerals backend, v nice village wine. Looking forward to try his 09 1er and grand cru.
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3/21/2024 - SimonG wrote: 92 Points
Half 10/12. Duller in the glass than previously, still mid to full ruby but a dullness and lacklustre appearance. A melange of deep cherry fruit with damp earth and meatier notes starting to develop. Densely silky, good fruit, and more of a discernible Gevrey than producer character, though a sense of vigneron lingers. This is really very good village wine. ****
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11/10/2023 - Papies wrote: 91 Points
From half bottle. Young and juicy 2009 and albeit a touch one dimensional at this stage it was also exceptionally delicious .Polished , well round and silky. A bit too fruity ( in a non confectionery way of course) at this stage and this would be so good once a secondary side develops! 91 ish for now
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9/15/2023 - Rupert wrote: 94 Points
So good last week, we had to have another bottle, and it was fantastic again. Sap, undergrowth, bruised strawberry-like fruit - lots of layers going on and on.
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9/2/2023 - Rupert wrote: 93 Points
Now this is more like it. Next to the 2010, so much broader, deeper and sweeter, red fruits and sap - delicious
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2/26/2023 - Loathesome Likes this wine: 92 Points
Mid red. Very round and gentle. At present a bit one dimensional but the fruit is pleasant but another 10+ years and should develop very well as everything seems balanced and in the right place.
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8/28/2022 - Paul D wrote: 91 Points
4/12, good cork.
Pale/med garnet core, wide pale garnet rim.Lovely pure strawberry fruit, aromatic, florals, touch of vanilla. Medium bodied, elegant and pure, strawberry, red cherry, vanila, slight touch of game, soft tannins, lovely vibrant acids somewhat in defiance of the vintage, good length, harmonious finish. Lovely.
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8/4/2022 - fussyeater wrote: 93 Points
Jason’s ‘top’ village Burgundy (67 Pall Mall, London): This needed a shake as too much CO2 which resulted in a pop, job done! Red fruited on the nose and came over as rich yet it remained graceful, really good concentration and purity. In a good spot. From Zalto Burgundy.
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8/4/2022 - NickA Likes this wine: 92 Points
Jason's 'top' village Burgundy (67 Pall Mall): Some volatility, real lift and some tempting gamey notes - very grown-up and appealing. Lip-smacking on the palate, with bright grippy fruit, good acidity and a long finish. Not very 2009, but in a good way.
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8/4/2022 - SimonG wrote: 93 Points
Jason’s ‘top’ village Burgundy (67 Pall Mall): Trademark pre-shake spritz. Reductive, ‘oaky’ nose that the half bottle version has started to lose. This remains a lovely bottle. Still more Fourrier than Gevrey, but with a Gevrey character and weight. A slight earthiness with real density of fruit coming through. Lovely stuff. Just a little more bass. ****
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4/30/2022 - BNWM Likes this wine: 91 Points
Light ruby, turning brownish at the rims. Compared with my last bottle, less strawberries, less red cherries and raspberry , more mushrooms and automn leaves. Very dense and quite complex on the palate, with a core of raspberry acidity, sweet cherries, coated by spices and underbrush. Don’t think it will go much further from here. Drink
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3/10/2022 - drwine2001 wrote:
Last bottle of this. Muddled red color. Very similar to the prior bottle a year ago. Medium weight, very nice sap. Some char and game to complement the still bright, tart cherry fruit (this really evokes literal "griottes"). Lovely soil base and citrus peel as well. The last few bottles have convinced me that as showy and fruity as these wines were early on, there is more than meets the eye; they are truly Burgundian and have the capacity to shed their fat and become something more with age. An outstanding bottle to wrap up my experience with this above class village wine.
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3/4/2022 - Seth Rosenberg Likes this wine: 94 Points
This is good. Much better than the 1er Vougeot was on day 1. It's got the classic Fourrier fruit - very forward, quite ripe, with a bit of candied and jammy quality (in a good way). Ripe strawberries and cherries. Combined with that is a wonderful savory - meaty - earthy note that is very Gevrey. Perfumed and pure with great lift. A bit of spice and florals too. The palate is similar but even better - the melange of the sweet fruit and the meaty-savory goodness is wonderful and even though it is light it really fills the mouth with flavor - good acid, nice balance and lift. There's a citrus squirt that comes on in the mid palate when a glass is first poured. The savory note expands and brings in a stemmy nuance as well and these carry into the long and crisp finish. This is a great bottle of red burg and stellar for a village wine. Nose - 5/6, Palate - 5.5/6, Finish - 5/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1.5/2 = 17/20.
Day 2: This really dropped off from day 1 - the nose isn't nearly as perfumed or explosive, and the palate seems more muted as well.
Day 3: Better than day 2 but not up to how good this was on day 1. Some fruit and nice savory notes. But if you can, drain it when opened.
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12/13/2021 - mpdonnel Likes this wine: 93 Points
The nose was signing, just incredible and explosive red fruits. The palate was a bit more subdued, still some structure but good fruit coming through. Just gaining some complexity so certainly has room to age. Nose 96, Palate 90, Overall 93.
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12/5/2021 - lozatron Likes this wine:
Saturday Evening with Friends (At home in leafy West London): Third or fourth experience with this wine. Just lovely - thrilling core to it, some red fruits, just starting to show some evolution.
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11/12/2021 - Pinot_Geek Likes this wine: 88 Points
Spicy black cherry, medium tannic bite, bit of a sharp note there. I prefer the 15’ version, another warm vintage.
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10/31/2021 - SimonG wrote: 91 Points
Half. Just lovely. The richness and ripeness of the vintage balanced by the Fourrier bright red fruit signature. Just starting to show some hints of development. I fear I shall finish the case before it reaches proper maturity. Some sediment in the last couple of sips’ worth. ****
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9/8/2021 - mclanew Likes this wine: 93 Points
Popped and poured. This is just lovely. Sappy red cherry, garrique, and earth come through. Medium bodied with lots of energy, great balance, very pure with little, no oak treatment.
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9/5/2021 - Brussels 1049 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Nothing to add to Paul S's note; textbook Burgundy, showing above its station in life. Perfect now, but no great hurry.
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5/12/2021 - fizz wrote:
Ruby centre with brown bricking. Strawberry, dark fruit notes, earth, forest floor. Complex and elegant palate, with a lifted, sweet core of fruit, and bright acids.
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4/25/2021 - Rupert wrote: 93 Points
Quite brown and old-looking, autumnal fragrance, on the palate gloriously mature and sappy. Splendid.
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3/23/2021 - LB88 wrote: 93 Points
This was just gorgeous punching way above its class as a village wine. A dense and concentrated stew of dark cherries and strawberries with a sensual fruit based delicate nose. I think this could possibly be one of the top village Gevrey wines available. At a great point and will drink over the next 5 years. Fr magnum.
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3/20/2021 - drwine2001 wrote:
Opened about an hour before pouring. Light ruby center. More char and funk on the nose than I've usually encountered with Fourrier, but plenty of dark red fruit as well. Light, earthy, and tangy with excellent black cherry fruit, an emerging top note of citrus peel, and some botanical herbs for complexity. There is definitely more to this than the stupendous core of sweet red fruit that it exhibited when it was very young. Excellent village Gevrey. Perhaps at peak now.
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3/1/2021 - mclanew Likes this wine: 93 Points
Terrific wine. Consistent with previous notes
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2/7/2021 - Rupert wrote: 90 Points
Strawberry and mint, pale, persistent and fragrant.
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1/24/2021 - fizz wrote:
PnP.
Perfumed and aromatic. Sweet strawberries and cherry. Earthy notes. Palate is ripe, but there’s a balance with the acid and fine tannins. Drinking well.
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10/28/2020 - SimonG wrote: 91 Points
Half. Not quite as full and vibrant as a glorious half earlier in the year, but very good nonetheless. The fruit a little darker and more serious, starting to develop a hint of earthy depth. Lovely and all too drinkable. ****
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10/18/2020 - mclanew Likes this wine: 93 Points
Slow oxed for an hour. The nose is a little modest and pinched with aroma of cherries and herbs coming through. The palate is lovely, weightless showing great finesse. Ripe red cherries, hard candy,and herbs come through caressed by silky tannins. This is really delicious and enjoyable right now albeit not particularly complex. I would drink this over the next five years.
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10/11/2020 - WEB,III Likes this wine: 91 Points
Delicious wine. Perfume is intoxicating. Ethereal purity of fruit. More Fourrier than Gevrey-Chambertin.
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10/10/2020 - Cohowino Likes this wine: 91 Points
Very enjoyable, albeit fairly evolved. Very nice ethereal, acidic minerality, combined with stewed red fruit and just a little bit of tomato/bloody mary, beef broth savoriness. A little surprising, but quite enjoyable. Would drink, rather than hold.
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9/19/2020 - BNWM wrote: 92 Points
Dark ruby. Stewed strawberries with red cherries ans raspberry nose, supplemented by mushrooms and automn leaves. Perfect balance on the palate. Really nice.
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3/31/2020 - drwine2001 wrote:
Deep ruby. Low pitched black cherry. Medium weight, quite concentrated. Long and earthy. The fruit is no longer as exuberant and sweet, but this is still awfully good.
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3/23/2020 - Cofxc Likes this wine: 90 Points
Rhubarb, strawberry. Lightly savoury, but fresh, salty. Nice acidity.
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3/10/2020 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points
Dinner at Tonny's (Tonny Restaurant): Lovely again, this was such a nice Gevrey village. The nose had a 2009 ripeness in its exuberant aromas of cherries and red berries laced with spice, earth and a bit of meatiness, this wreathed in a lovely floral perfume. Really nice. The palate was at a beautiful place now. Rich and ripe, with lovely layers of cherries, berries and a little bit of earth and spice, but also beautifully pure, transparent and impeccably balanced, with fresh acidity and wonderfully shaped tannins, all this leading into a lipsmacking finish of sake cherries infused with a bit of warm spice. Chewy, pure and delicious, this was a wonderful village. I thought it was a 1er Cru blind. Even better than the last bottle I had a couple of years back - really hitting its stride now.
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2/16/2020 - jwsmith wrote: 90 Points
Good but not great wine is very light Asian spice maybe a bit lacking on the finish. 09 has not really evolved for Jean Marie.
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1/7/2020 - SimonG wrote: 93 Points
Half. What a glorious bottle — this has been getting better and better out of half bottle over the past seven years. A quick shake to release the CO2 and then poured. Lovely bright ruby. Quite dense but fine velvet to silky texture, mid red fruit. Long and joyous. ****
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9/1/2019 - Paul D wrote: 93 Points
3/12, excellent cork.
Pale/medium garnet core, pale garnet rim. Intense, youthful nose with pure red fruit, florals, spice. Medium/full bodied, red fruit to the fore on the palate too, showing lovely purity with excellent depth, soft tannins, vibrant acidity and a long, lightly savoury finish. Just delicious.
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8/18/2019 - Forest Floor wrote: 92 Points
Fourrier: PNP, opened a little fruit-bomby, almost like a Rochioli, nice hit of raspberry followed by plum; as it airs more complexity in the mid-palate and some distinctively Gevrey notes (brambles, white pepper). Followed over a couple more hours—very pure, clean throughout, fruit recedes, more complex burg appears. Glad I own more. Bought and cellared on release.
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8/3/2019 - PC73 wrote: 91 Points
Another gorgeous showing of this wine.
Crushed rocks and so much more minerality than I have noticed before on the palate.
Red fruits. Wild strawberry Sour cherries on both the nose and palate. A definite sweetness on fruit on the palate.
Attractive acidity. Delicate tannins.
Super elegant. Ethereal.
This is a wine drinking really well currently and showing enough to have confidence that it has a good future ahead.
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7/20/2019 - drwine2001 wrote:
A Few Days in Seattle; 7/19/2019-7/21/2019: Light ruby with maturing rim. Beautiful red fruit with a citric lift. Naturally sweet red berry, wonderful sappiness, and a fine, lingering earthy base. Utterly seductive and amazingly deep for a village wine. Bravo!
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6/27/2019 - Paul S wrote: 92 Points
Bourgogne and Village Dinner (Tonny Restaurant, Geylang Lor 3, Singapore): Always lovely - Fourrier's Gevreys are one of the benchmark village wines vintage-in and vintage-out for me. This was no exception. It had a beautiful nose that was just pure Gevrey in its notes of red cherry and earth and sweet florals - roses I thought - all lightly infused with gentle meaty hints. Lovely stuff. The palate was perhaps drinking the best out of the few bottles of the 2009 Gevrey VV that I have since release, with velvety tannins and bright acidity lending a really defined feel to the wine's flavours of cherries, spice and dried earthy mineral. This was a really refined Gevrey village, all the way into a well-delineated finish still traced with by some very fine-boned tannins. Very good indeed, and starting to drink well now.
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6/12/2019 - chablis28 wrote: 92 Points
PnP and slow ox about 30 minutes prior to drinking at Chianti Grill. I loved this producer more about six years ago but my palate has moved ever so steadily towards more traditionally styled Burg producers like J&L Trapet. Today this reminds me more of many top notch Oregon producers. Its a great tweener but I'd like a little more emphasis on finesse, earth, minerality and tertiary. Even at 10yrs+ years in, this is exuberantly ripe with lush sweet cherry and raspberry along with some unwelcome cola notes. Very pure and delicious but lacking subtly and depth. The nose offers some earth & tertiary making it more interesting than the palate. Enjoyed it but its much closer to Oregon PN than Gevrey Chambertin, for my palate. The alc seems like it more like 13-14% too. Tasty as hell but lacking a bit of terroir authenticity. I do need to try one of my, likely more balanced, 2010s of this. Paid $60 and certainly worth that. For me, the recent releases at $90+ are overpriced.
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6/11/2019 - Astrophel wrote:
Opened 4+hrs in advance, a great wine. Open and lush, beautiful, pure red fruit. So fourrier in style. Great earth and gev characteristics. Really fresh. Delicious now and will continue to last, but no need to wait forever. Interestingly, still noticed just a hint of reduction on the nose. XXX
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6/10/2019 - LW31 Likes this wine:
Just delicious. Ripe cherry, earthy, quite sappy on finish. Punches above its level for shear deliciousness and pleasure. Great now but should hold for next few years.
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5/31/2019 - Ms. Bubblehead Likes this wine:
More mature than the last bottle I had but I love the gentle soil and earthiness on the nose and palate, this bottle also offered a bit more herbal and iron sensation too, with generous purple fruits and lingering acidity
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5/14/2019 - Shiaxonna wrote: 92 Points
Wonderful wine. Developed perfectly with lots of fresh fruit balanced with tertiary notes of mushrooms, moss, wet forest floor, spices and general ripeness. Complex and concentrated.
50+5+13+16+8 (92p)
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5/10/2019 - PC73 wrote: 91 Points
I’ve posted on this wine a few times before and this was just as good as prior bottles. A very intoxicating nose of sweet red fruits. I always find it balanced, perfumed, elegant. On the palate, more Pinot purity, elegance, delicacy. Still quite vibrant, definitely more red than black fruits for my taste. I don’t find this showing the heat of the vintage particularly and overall a really enjoyable wine.
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3/14/2019 - Paul S wrote: 92 Points
Burdgundy village wines from top producers (East Treasure, Clarke Quay, Singapore): Lovely - this was easily one of the top 2 or 3 wines on the night. It had a great nose, a lovely representation of Gevrey, with notes of earth and mineral, sweet red fruit and a bit of spice, all this seasoned with just a hint of the sesame and cola that I always associate with Fourrier. A really nice nose. The palate was absolutely en pointe too. Surprisingly bright and juicy for a 2009, this showed silky tannins and good acidity laced through fresh, crunchy flavours of red cherries and lovely bright florals. This showed all of the purity, clarity and transparency that I love in a good Fourrier. The back palate had a nice twist of spice and just a bit of minerality gliding into a graceful finish too. It will not be the longest lived wine, but this will give a lot of pleasure over the next decade. Delicious stuff.
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1/27/2019 - Brett H Likes this wine: 92 Points
My last half bottle. Lovely balanced wine with raspberries and quite juicy acidity for an 09. After having an 05 of the same last year that was descending from its plateau I thought it was time to polish this last one off. Whilst it could age for years longer it’s in such a good place I would drink.
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1/5/2019 - swfc Likes this wine: 94 Points
Streaky nose of ripe red fruits and turning into tobacco and leathery notes with undergrowth undertone. Really pure, precise, and drinking beautifully. No rush at all, but very enjoyable right now. Excellent
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1/2/2019 - liteagilis Likes this wine:
Complete opposite of the lignier next to it. Quite brilliant and pretty on the nose. Very fresh. Ripe red fruit that was so very pure. No hint of wood. Palate was very precise for an 09. Sweet red fruit up front but very high acid. Linear. Fine tannins and a long finish. This appears to already be showing its cards in a way the lignier next to it did not.
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12/18/2018 - PC73 wrote: 91 Points
Another classy showing. Pure Pinot nose. So enticing. Lovely fruit on the palate. Hint of secondary flavours. Fresh cut mushroom.
So easy to enjoy
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9/2/2018 - PC73 Likes this wine: 91 Points
Oh boy. This is fabulous. Quintessential Pinot for my palate. So pure. So elegant and balanced. Sweet red fruits on the nose and palate. Super elegant and pure on the palate (esp for a 2009). No evidence of heat. Extra bit of complexity vs the 2011 vintage which I’ve really enjoyed). Light, approachable but serious and complex.
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9/2/2018 - PC73 wrote: 91 Points
Very consistent with last bottle. The fruit is amazing. So pure. Balanced. Elegant. Precise. Complex. Very tiny bit of the heaviness of the 09 vintage heat once the wine warms up too much. This is really a wine that’s so easy to enjoy. Pure pleasure.
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8/31/2018 - Ms. Bubblehead Likes this wine:
Tasted blind. Out of the five village wines we had together, I rated this my wine of the night, probably due to my personal preference of Fourrier style. The nose was very floral and elegant, candies fruits, purple cherry, on the palate, raspberry, red plum, modest earthiness, gentle spices, and very nice and lingering acidity (which I really enjoyed) on the back palate.
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8/30/2018 - Burgnick wrote: 90 Points
Consistent with previous note. Floral nose with orange peel, nail polish and raspberries. Palate was juicy and forward but slightly lean. Drinking at its peak now.
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6/28/2018 - SimonG wrote: 91 Points
Properly rich and lush Jose. A touch of damp earth and smoke. Lovely balance on the palate. Sweet fruit, good acidity. Just in transition from 2009 Fourrier to Gevrey. ****
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1/28/2018 - Dale B. wrote:
Opened for 30 minutes. Explosive nose of mostly red and black fruits. Ripe (like many ‘09’s) powerful, but good structure and enough acid to make a great mouth feel. Keeps improving. No shame drinking now but will also evolve and improve.
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11/4/2017 - Francophile1 Likes this wine: 93 Points
The last bottle of my case. Bought this at $56 per bottle and worth every penny. Every bit as good as I remember it. For tasting notes, see my prior reviews over the last three years. It hasn’t changed much over time, except expressing more tertiary notes. Delicious!
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10/26/2017 - Burgundy Al wrote: 89 Points
Zachys Capital Collection Pre-Auction BYO Wine Dinner (Fiola Mare - Washington, DC): Late night glass, brief note. Very rich and powerful in the fashion of the vintage with plenty of lush black fruit and roasted meat. Great fruit purity seems to make this nicely elegant. Very good now, but this can easily evolve in interesting ways over the next decade.
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10/21/2017 - Eros Coniglio wrote: 88 Points
Over ripe nose. Very big for village wine but it smelled like candy.
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10/7/2017 - Eros Coniglio wrote: 93 Points
The nose explodes. Full of fruit but still lacking tertiary characteristics, this was a wonderful wine with 1er Cru nose. Great now but long life ahead. Great village wine.
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9/20/2017 - Burgaddict wrote:
Lovely nose with depth and elegance, developed fruit tones, herbs. Taste very good, red and dark fruit, some sweetness, minerality, a bit low on acidity, maybe that is the year. Fine.
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9/5/2017 - RieslingFanatic Likes this wine: 92 Points
My second tasting of this wine in the last six months. Green herbs on dark cherry fruits, with vanilla oak adding a sweeter note in the background. Lovely balance, still quite primary too. 92 points.
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4/13/2017 - Sixchips600 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Coming into a great drinking window, but still best on day two. Nice perfumed nose. Rich black cherry fruit on palate. A bit lite on minerality. Delicious.
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3/31/2017 - Paul D Likes this wine: 91 Points
2/12 - good cork. Medium garnet core, pale garnet rim. Fragrant nose, pure red fruit, touch of earth, vanilla. Medium/full bodied, piercingly pure red fruit again, very fine but still pertinent tannins, quite rich, fresh acidity, impressively long and expansive on the finish. Excellent, drinking well, though still on the up.
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3/25/2017 - RieslingFanatic wrote:
Complex nose. Dusty cupboard, earth, dark confit fruits, some VA. Palate is shortish, finish fades.
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2/12/2017 - wineappreciation wrote: 91 Points
Candied cherry, candied apple, caramel, hints of watermelon and grapefruit; smooth, silky, slithering, tantalizing; moderately long-lived, not very complex but quite engaging
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2/12/2017 - Burgaddict wrote:
Haven't had this wine in the last 3 years. Decided to Coravin one of my bottles. Typical Fourrier nose with pure red fruit and floral and mineral acidic tones, also Gevrey earthy tones. I love this nose! Taste the same pure red fruit, acidity and nice round tannins. This is really lovely. Not at all 2009, no tartness. Very fine.
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1/26/2017 - lestingray wrote: 90 Points
In a happy place, excellent typicite, iron, earth and dark fruit incl plums, black cherries. Went well with rib eye on the barbecue
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1/15/2017 - jwsmith wrote: 92 Points
Excellent starting to open up more depth. Very good
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8/18/2016 - astroman Likes this wine:
Village Burgundy Dinner: Lovely red fruits and hint of brett? Juicy on the palate with nice red fruits and rustic.
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7/23/2016 - Drankard wrote: 94 Points
This is so seductive on the nose and just screams Gevrey. I underestimated this wine the first time around and regrettably so. Lots of bright red and black cherry fruit with earth and subtle spice. Starts off a little tight, but this opened up and expanded throughout the evening. There’s a stony/mineral underbelly that surfaces after a few hours that gives the wine more focused and less 2009-ish. Great fruit purity that is silky and refined but not polished with very good balance that puts it at the top of its class. Despite the negative talk associated with the vintage, this is classic Burgundy. 94+.
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6/7/2016 - SimonG wrote: 88 Points
Half. This has lost its glossy reductive fat and sis showing a bit brighter and lighter red fruit, slightly higher acidity, and a little more transparency. Silkier. Lovely, but not quite as cossetting as previous halves. ***
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6/6/2016 - MonkeyBiz101 Likes this wine: 91 Points
Enjoyable, moved from fruit led phase.
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3/31/2016 - jwsmith wrote: 92 Points
Really nice but slight bit prune like in the begining
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3/4/2016 - drwine2001 wrote:
Light ruby with some turbidity. Inviting aromatics of candied red fruit and a whiff of herbs. Light to medium bodied. Brown sugar, red berry, and a coating of earth. Adequate acidity and very low residual tannin. Lovely and not too sweet. Great to drink this completely ready bottle after trying the Fourriers at the La Paulée vertical tasting earlier today.
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2/21/2016 - nadecesse wrote:
Bouquet qui détonne suite aux autres vins, fruité lui aussi mais aussi joliment musqué, lui donnant une dimension plus mystérieuse. La bouche possède un beau volume, c'est tendre, savoureux et la longueur est très appréciable. Plus épanoui que les autres. Donne l'impression d'un vin fait à l'ancienne. 92
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1/20/2016 - BradE wrote:
Took a while to open up, but terrific once it did. 2009's really deliver a lot of pleasure.
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12/20/2015 - Paul D Likes this wine: 92 Points
Good cork. Medium, bright ruby core, pale ruby/garnet rim. Nose shows astonishingly pure, youthful, ripe strawberry fruit, florals. Medium/full bodied, generous, silky with flamboyant, pure red fruits, darker fruit notes from time to time, still youthful but absolutely compelling, impressively deep and expansive with fine tannins and decent freshening acidity which carries a very good length pure fruited finish, with traces of fine tannin at the tail end. Delicious, very drinkable but should also age well.
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12/18/2015 - MonkeyBiz101 Likes this wine: 90 Points
Good purity, as usual. Good dark fruit. Nice acidic backbone.
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10/12/2015 - SimonG wrote: 90 Points
Half. Classic Fourrier gloss, starting to show a bit darker and a touch more savoury. Tightening up? Not really, but certainly starting to show a more serious edge. ***1/2
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10/11/2015 - Francophile1 Likes this wine: 94 Points
I love this wine... I should have purchased 10 cases vs just one. A great sexy expression of Gevrey with bright red fruit and cranberry laced with damp earth, truffle / mushroom. A great value wine from an outstanding Bugrundy vintage. Consistent tasting notes prior. Love it!
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8/21/2015 - Sixchips600 Likes this wine: 91 Points
Better showing than last year and was best at 3 hours of air. Great nose of high toned red fruits, forest floor and potpourri. Palate as not as impressive as the nose, with elegance but a bit simple.
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8/2/2015 - antkorbel Likes this wine: 93 Points
If this is a guide to Fourrier's wines I'm a huge fan. There's a real vibrancy / energy to the wine and is almost translucent - not in colour but in flavour. Its not especially complex but the way its been brought together makes it utterly delicious. The other point is it seems extremely approachable now - be interested to see whether the 1er and GCs from Fourrier are equally approachable young.
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7/29/2015 - Francophile1 Likes this wine: 93 Points
A great wine... Very similar note to my tasting on 2/15/15. Only difference this time is the finish had a little prickle on the finish. Not sure if it was bottle variation because I've had this exact wine from the same case about 6 times and this experience was a first. Nevertheless, a great Burg!
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7/6/2015 - Burgnick wrote: 90 Points
The wine was floral with flower, violets, red fruits, cedar wood, oak and caramel. The palate was smoothe and sweet, but not too much depth. I think it is ready to drink now with 30mins breathing in the bottle. The wine tasted like a chambolle musigny to me.
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6/1/2015 - mamagnuson wrote: 89 Points
Very muted. I was expecting more.
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5/17/2015 - Rupert wrote: 90 Points
Compared with how this usually is, a bit muted
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4/20/2015 - Drankard wrote: 91 Points
An earthy and very Gevrey nose with game-infused aromas. Pure fruit and a natural expression of the terroir. Delicious!
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3/5/2015 - panda drinks burgundy wrote: 89 Points
Fizzy mouthfeel makes it distracting and it lacks focus.
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2/15/2015 - Francophile1 Likes this wine: 96 Points
Wow! Knock your socks off WOW! This wine is what I love about Burgundy and Gevrey. While it has an incredible core of bright red raspberry, bing cherry, with a slight cranberry tartness, the mineral, earth, and a slight touch of mushroom shines through telling you were it is from. I'm surprised that it is already showing secondary characteristics revealing its terroir in Gevrey. No hard edges or tannin... Drinking great now, but will no doubt get better with age. I love this wine! This is a wine for nobility and kings. What a pleasure to have the opportunity to enjoy it.
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2/15/2015 - jwsmith wrote: 93 Points
Deep Rich color perfect aromas really nice
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1/22/2015 - Rupert wrote: 91 Points
Next to the Solon, it's very similar, more fragrant, broader, smokier, more layers. Lovely, but less explosive than it was a year ago.
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12/23/2014 - Sixchips600 Likes this wine: 90 Points
Rated after 3 hours of air. Subtle nose of cloves and black fruit. Palate has complexity and length but is not quite integrated. Sourness and acidity needs to mellow. Nicer when tasting than it was at the table. Try again in a year.
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6/28/2014 - SimonG wrote: 89 Points
Half. Pretty consistent with previous halves. Top ***
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6/4/2014 - BradE wrote:
375ml. A very nice village luncheon wine.
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5/18/2014 - jwsmith wrote: 93 Points
Really nice classic Gevrey.
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12/15/2013 - jwsmith wrote: 92 Points
Took out to dinner rocking good wine always>
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10/9/2013 - Rupert wrote: 93 Points
Glorious, enticing black cherry fragrance, on the palate radiant, energetic, wave on wave of flavour. Stunning.
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10/9/2013 - Barry Rothof wrote: 88 Points
Red Burgundy tasting (@ Rotterdam, Netherlands): Hello, old friend… With a medium intense translucent ruby core, we’re more into familiar territory. While beyond medium intense on the nose, a slight spritzy fuzziness takes a few minutes to dissipate and then its black fruits resemble blackberries, but I also smell an unprecedented note of bacon/pancetta.
The vintage shines through in its medium-plus body, while on the mid-palate medium acidity lends sufficient freshness to this consistently high-quality village. Medium-minus fine tannins are plushy enough to shore up medium-plus intense flavours of blueberry, which are both generous and mouth-filling. The finish does a convincing 20-25 seconds and while this wine surely is a shockingly ripe, open and delicious drink at the moment, it is definitely not the most typical of 10+ vintages I’ve tasted so far. I’ll give 88 points for this showing and perhaps medium-term cellaring will see this wine transform and warrant a slightly higher score ............. TN Mike de Lange.
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8/31/2013 - Ardross Likes this wine: 93 Points
Very open , soft and inviting, Savoury and delicious slightly lacking in acidity but who cares - excellent.
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8/15/2013 - swade wrote: 91 Points
Decanted three hours, but checked serially. Burgundy shoe polish color. This is wholly impressive for its balance, roundness and generosity. Magnetic nose of earth and violets. Sappy, ripe (not overripe) entry. This offers flat grape soda, plums and a bright, slightly sour finish that just dances. Excellent. 91
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8/1/2013 - Rupert wrote: 92 Points
Straight after the 03 Solon, this was fresher, silkier, more upright, less obviously fruity - delightful and I slightly preferred it
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6/8/2013 - chablis28 wrote: 93 Points
PnP. This has to be one of the surest buys from Burgundy! I only go back to the '06 vintage and every blt I've opened has been outstanding. To anyone who dare utters that worn out cliche "Burgundy is a minefield", I have the perfect retort."Have you tried Fourrier's Gevrey Chambertin VV?". The '09 is at another level still in terms of finesse and depth. The color is a beautiful translucent crimson/red. The nose,as soon as opened, gushes with fresh red fruit and that often ellusive forest floor aroma we Burgheads love. I spent nearly an hour smelling this before I tasted it. The weightless palate will suprise you with its depth and wealth of red fruit and spice flavors. Very happy to own three more of these and I may go back for an addl 3 more. Never tried a Burg? Try one of these.
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5/27/2013 - Rupert wrote: 92 Points
As ever, prickly entry, then fresh explosive black fruits and earth - exhilarating
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4/26/2013 - Rupert wrote: 93 Points
Felt a little bit different from past bottles, with an extra tautness at the beginning - but this just made the explosion of black fruits, earth, etc, etc that followed all the more thrilling
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4/17/2013 - jrhaynie Likes this wine: 91 Points
Outstanding wine as usual, my last 375mil bottle. Took about an hour to open up. Nose was hint of dark fruit with raspberry prominent, light oak and earth, some pipe tobacco. On the palette much the similar with the raspberry and blackberry fruit up front, nice strong dry finish. Certainly could have kept it down for a few more years but with a nice meal of sashimi grade tuna and pan seared potatoes could not resist!
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4/13/2013 - Burgaddict wrote: 92 Points
Gevrey nose, sous-bois with caramel. Sweet caramel taste, lovely acidity, good depth and concentration, minerals, long finish. This is a thrilling wine, drinks wonderfully. Old vine magic.
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3/29/2013 - tooch wrote: 91 Points
Final Friday at Domaine (Domaine Wine Storage - Chicago, IL): Great fruit with searing acidity. Such a sexy package of earth, and incredibly pure red fruit, but what else would you expect from Fourrier? Super.
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3/26/2013 - Barry Rothof wrote: 90 Points
Top Burgundy Tasting at the Sotto Lounge. (Netherlands): The bouquet is pure and classy, with sappy cherries a touch of coffee. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, with a sappy core of fruit, fine structure and a fine very pure finish. In a word, delicious!
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3/24/2013 - fdub Likes this wine: 92 Points
Delicious 2009 entry level burg. Great nose of red fruit, game, meat and earth. The palate is suave and delicious. Should drink great for a number of years.
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3/10/2013 - ChicagoBas wrote: 91 Points
Rich fruit with semi long finish. Complex for a village level. Seems that it will benefit from more time. Very nice.
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3/9/2013 - Rupert wrote: 93 Points
Broader and sweeter than the Aux Echezeaux, but equally exciting - thrilling, multidimensional Gevrey.
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3/9/2013 - Burgaddict wrote:
Leiden Clape Cornas tasting March 2013 (Leiden, The Netherlands): This was not singing as this GC Vieilles Vignes normally does with acidity and minerals soaring in your mouth. Is it closing down?
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3/9/2013 - Barry Rothof wrote:
Chartogne-Taillet, Michel Juillot, Dauvissat, Boisson-Vadot, David Clark, Emmanuel Rouget, Fourrier.: This Vieilles Vignes bottling comes from the border with Brochon. This bottle is sourced from somewhere else and not as good as the 2009 Gevrey v.v. bottling we’ve had before. In any case, on the nose a strange brew of dark berries and dark soil tones. On the palate the wine is medium-full, with an abundance of dry tannins adding astringency to the finish. Bottle Variation – what’s the Story?!
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2/18/2013 - SimonG wrote: 88 Points
Half. Consistent with previous notes. Deep red fruit. Some depth here as well as a freshness. Lovely. ***
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1/29/2013 - BradE wrote:
Got funky quite quickly. Almost too funky, but stayed on the right side of the line.
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12/30/2012 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points
JM's Old World Education (Pine Close): Woah - what a village! I love Fourrier's Gevrey VV in almost every vintage, but there was something extra special with the 2009. It had such a beautiful nose that everyone on the table guessed it was a Chambolle without a second thought. After a short half an hour in the decanter, lovely florals just soared out of the glass, with violets and roses wafting around pure red cherry aromas, all undergirded with just a touch of funky, mushroomy undergrowth. A knockout nose. It was absolutely lovely on the palate too. This showed the typical, sappy richness of a 2009 Gevrey, with sweet notes of red cherries and sour plums galore. Yet such was the wonderful balance on the wine that it came across lithe, elegant, almost floatingly ethereal, with a beautiful juiciness and purity to its fruit, even though it was still extremely primary. Fine, silky tannins then carried the wine into a lovely finish, with more sour plums - almost umeshu-like here - and pretty floral notes floating away into the distance. Not quite as rich and fleshy here as on the attack and the midpalate, yet still really charming. What a wonderful wine - quite the archetype of the ethereal, effortless Burgundy; something that can actually be quite difficult to find these days! I only wish I had bought more. Drinking beautifully even now, this should age wonderfully over its first decade and more.
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12/30/2012 - JerM wrote: 94 Points
(jm's old world education@paulS') Dark purple in glass, with a funky Burg nose, savoury meats and smallgoods, and dusty ash. Lovely concentration and focus, while floating lightly, almost effortlessly, showing juicy plums, dark ash, orange-peel notes, juicy acidity. Entirely elegant, light and rounded. Wonderful stuff, even as a village!
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12/29/2012 - Yamadori wrote: 92 Points
Decanted 5 hours and rebottled. Similar to previous TN but this has settled down and has integrated significantly over the last 6 months. Beautiful dark cherry fruit with notes of damp earth, mushroom and a little sweet candy on the mid palate. Silky smooth mouthfeel with a great balance between fruit and acidity. Medium length finish with manageable tannins. This is still young and will boubtless improve with age but it is drinking very nicely just now with p lenty of air. Extremely good.
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12/9/2012 - angryphoton wrote: 90 Points
not as good as the 2006 I had earlier, but I think that it just needs time, the potential is surely there. does come off slightly 2009-ish but not over the top. lots of red fruit, gervy punch and earthy tones. some might not call this classic but it is very well made. still too young, would hold off on this longer.
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12/8/2012 - Rupert wrote: 91 Points
Switched to this from the Solon 2010 which was showing surprisingly tight. This was much easier - fuller, richer, sweeter, lots of layers of black fruits. Lovely
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12/5/2012 - puzzl Likes this wine: 94 Points
A superb expression with exemplary depth. The nose takes you from a deep, rich meatiness to bright raspberry right back down to dry slickrock and rainforest showers. One sip yields an almost candy-like explosion of cherry juice, and the next shows prickly tannins, granite and cremini mushrooms. Acidity is superb. My only complaint is a bit of a thin finish; you catch the acid and the minerality, but it quickly tapers off leaving you with very little to savor.
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12/2/2012 - Sycamore Likes this wine: 91 Points
Outstanding. As usual, benefits from double-decant. Gets very earthy quite quickly. Dark-fruited. Tannins prominent on the finish, but integrated; there is a fair bit of interesting tension on the finish generally. All bodes well for a great drinking experience now and down the line for at least the next 10 years.
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11/26/2012 - Rupert wrote: 92 Points
Quite markedly creamy oaky to start with, but it soon pulled itself together - mouthfilling, multi-layered, backfruited and so incredibly fresh
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11/17/2012 - RyanJames wrote: 93 Points
Just spectacular every time. No obvious wine-making flaws, no off-flavors, jut an incredible expression of youthful pinot noir. I have no incentive to age this as it's fantastic now, albeit much better after 2-3 hours of air. Decant, and enjoy...silk palate, fresh dark raspberries, strawberries, earth, amazingness...I'm 100% sure this will be a rockstar wine in 10+ years, but why wait?
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11/11/2012 - VHJV wrote: flawed
Corked.
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10/31/2012 - emzee.mc wrote: 92 Points
Deep garnet with rather thick legs. On the nose are leathery, earthy notes accentuated by some acidic red fruits. Rather fruity with slight salinity on the palate with pronounced acidity at the start before weak tannins kick in. There is some sweetness, redolent of prunes, to the end as well. A very very well balanced burgundy between the tart and the bitter.
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10/30/2012 - Rupert wrote: 92 Points
As ever, spicy, fresh, black fruited, less prickly than some, super silky texture. Utterly gorgeous, of course.
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10/20/2012 - Rupert wrote: 92 Points
Spectacular, as ever. Without being in any was "big", it has this all enveloping presence, gushing black fruits with spice, earth, lifted by a touch of spritz.
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10/9/2012 - dutchwinelover wrote: 94 Points
On this regular thuesday,i came home thirsty and i was thinking to myself;lets open a nice burgundy.
so i opened my one and only gevrey village from fourrier,and what a great bottle of wine this was!
my brains were probably in the wine marinade when this wine came on the market.
i symply forgot to order 12 of these wonderfull wine,and i am a stupid ..rse that i forgot to buy this freak of a vintage,so for everyone who did buy,i would say i am not jealous at all =(!
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10/5/2012 - BradE wrote:
More delish.
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9/30/2012 - SimonG wrote: 88 Points
Half. Consistent with previous half. ***
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9/25/2012 - Rupert wrote: 92 Points
Seen before, but it's always new. Explosive with its fizz, black fruits, and earthy tones, and yet still beautiful. Tightened up in the glass.
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8/1/2012 - Rupert wrote: 92 Points
Paler, more floral than before, lovely rose petal fragrance, gorgeous strawberry cherry fruit, ethereal, breathtakingly lovely
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7/28/2012 - Gargantua wrote: 91 Points
Wow, okay. This is pretty magnificent with a savory olive brine, some suntan lotion-y white florals. Really makes me harken back upon Clape Cornas or maybe a Dard & Ribot St Joseph or some other floral, meaty northern Rhone Syrah--but in a far lighter package. Really regretted the last drops disappearing on this.
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7/24/2012 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 95 Points
A big wow. Right away it comes across the palate like a grand cru (with none of the usual spritz, either!), mouthfilling but ethereal and oh-so-refined at the same time. There is no way anyone guesses this is a village wine if poured blind. As it sits it starts to lose just a touch of density but it's still filling in the same positive space, just airier and maybe a bit more transparent. I think there was a touch of stony earth here but that's not really the point, this one is all about that pampering texture and mouthfeel.
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6/24/2012 - Barry Rothof wrote: 88 Points
10th Burgundy tasting prt 2 (Rotterdam, Netherlands): This wine from my formerly favourite domaine has a medium-plus intense, sombre ruby coloured and nearly opaque core. The nose is not quite medium-plus intense, but offers up lifted notes of pure raspberry and a hint of ferrous minerals.A bit more full-bodied than is usual for this bottling at medium-plus, this wine is relatively nervously styled regardless. Pure and elegant, medium-plus intense flavours of again raspberry and iron are joined by a touch of gaminess and supported by medium-plus refined acidity and medium-minus smooth tannins, which latter have a modicum of grip to them. Mid-palate balance is quite good and while this will probably not be the most long-lived example of this cuvee, it sure is a great and balanced drink now. The finish does an easy 20-25 seconds worth of balance and as it is now, this wine is worth 88 points to me. It may improve somewhat over the next 5 years..................TN Mike de Lange
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6/22/2012 - Burgaddict wrote: 89 Points
Earthy cherry and caramel nose, taste concentrated blue and red fruit, tart, some over-ripe tones, however these are followed by a cool, fresh and lovely midpalate with minerals and refined acidity, followed by a long finish. Will be wonderfull in a few years.
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5/28/2012 - carlwhat wrote:
2009 tasting from 375 w sous vide duck confit: as always, fourrier has such a light touch on his wines. one would almost think chambolle on this wine as opposed to gevrey. but clearly delicious...
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5/20/2012 - DAN BAILEY wrote:
Popped and poured then drunk over 4 hours. Dark, ripe, hints of cola but without the weighty alcohol of a cali PN. Still, quite atypical.
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5/20/2012 - SimonG wrote: 88 Points
Half bottle. Dark ruby to cherry red. Dark fruited, fresh and vibrant. Good acidity giving a sense of ripeness but without being lush. Decent length and grip. Promising. ***
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5/17/2012 - sehill wrote: 90 Points
Opened and poured, this wine begins reserved with aromatics of tart red cherry and subtle earth notes. Airings brings out black fruit and more depth on the bouquet. The color is a medium to dark ruby. The medium bodied palate also requires airing to show its best. Overtime this develops excellent balance and length on the palate. This wine will benefit from an additional two to three years of bottle age to show its best.
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5/17/2012 - Rupert wrote: 91 Points
Cool, ultra fresh, cherry fruit at first developing into something earthier and more savoury. Gorgeous
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5/16/2012 - cartime wrote: 90 Points
From 375. Still the slightest bit reductive after a one hour decant. Fresh cherry, raspberry nose with floral, earthy, and iron notes. Tart cherry, mineral, soil-inflected palate. Iron-laden, sour cherry acidity with fine tannins. Obviously needs more time, but accessible now. Recommended.
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5/12/2012 - Yamadori wrote:
Decanted 5 hours and rebottled. Even after the decant this was still a bit tight and obviously young. Red and black cherry fruit on the nose with earth and a touch of spice. Black and red cherry fruit on the palate with a hint of sweetness but currently being held in check by grippy tannins. Nice minerality and balance although this doesn't have the bracing acidity of the '08 bottling. More austere than the '08 and will need some time to show its' best but certainly has lots of potential. Glad to have several of these for the future. (NR)
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5/2/2012 - Rupert wrote: 91 Points
Having this after the sharp and lean Muzard accentuated the warmth and ripeness of this, and the oakiness too. But it's still a brilliant multifaceted Gevrey villages, with fruit, iron and earth all present and correct
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5/2/2012 - BradE wrote:
375ml. Delish, glad I grabbed a bunch of these. Very tasty.
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4/20/2012 - BradE wrote:
A very decent lunch time half bottle. Open for business.
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4/12/2012 - Sleepy Dave wrote: 88 Points
2012 - 2nd dinner with K-M-T-R (Jade Palace Seafood Restaurant, The Forum Shopping Mall, Orchard Road): Alcohol :: 13%
Opened for 4hrs w/o cork on it and the wine was still tight and reductive. Thus I decided to double decanted for another 3hrs before served which is obviously doing good to the wine. Deep vibrant ruby red. Still a little bit shy, sweet on the core with red and black cherry, dark plum intermixed with soft aromas of meatiness, savoriness and earthiness. The palate is driven by excellent mineral structure with juicy sweet dark fruits and mild spiciness. Silky tannin, medium length finish that's very clean and pure. Savory and lots of concentration of fruits. Drinking beautifully with proper preparation but it will certainly improves more in the bottle. Outstanding village. 88-89+
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3/31/2012 - drwine2001 wrote:
Medium red. Floral red fruit. Light with lovely fruit/earth mix. Very supple yet good balancing acidity.
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2/10/2012 - strawbo Likes this wine: 88 Points
Nose: Sour cherries mixed with sweet rasperries and a bit of rubber/medicin. On the palate: Red berries (redcurrant?) and quite distinct acidity. Nicely rounded tannins lingering for a while on the finish. Especially on the palate I miss some character and terroir but who knows how it will develop with age...
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1/5/2012 - VHJV wrote: 91 Points
2009 Red Burgundy in Helsinki (Classic Wine Cellars, Helsinki, Finland): A refined and airy wine with luxurious fruit and lovely freshness. A great village wine.
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12/17/2011 - sandwich wrote:
weak
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11/12/2011 - collin wrote:
No formal notes, but this was delicious. Much more interesting / complex than I remember the '08 version being. Light and fresh; surprisingly so given the vintage reputation.
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11/5/2011 - VHJV wrote: 92 Points
Needed about an hour to get rid of the CO2. Then a deep and perfumy nose of dark Gevrey character. In the mouth smooth with wonderfully intense and deep flavors and nice earthy undertones. There’s some notable tannin, but it is so smooth that it only enhances the mouthfeel. This is truly impressive for a village wine and has none of those negative attributes (over-ripeness, too low acidity etc.) associated with some 2009 red Burgundies. Drinking absolutely great now, but must be given time for the gas to dissipate.
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8/13/2011 - Pacalet wrote: 89 Points
Light bluish red color, fresh nose of spices, red fruit (cherries and rasberry), candied fruit and slight new oak. Light to medium palate, ripe fruit and balanced acidity, fine tannins, Slight minerals backend, v nice village wine. Looking forward to try his 09 1er and grand cru.
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