2004 Bernard Faurie Hermitage Greffieux-Bessards

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 93.7 points

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  12/14/2020 - lightning wrote: 93 Points

  A ruddy garnet of medium intensity with a slight brown hue. Complex nose of white pepper, cloves and liquorice, attractive red fruits. Elegant, light to medium bodied, lovely bracing acid spine, juicy red fruit, some smoke meats, cloves, good length. Fleshes out with air. Suave and classy.

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  3/26/2018 - lightning wrote: 94 Points

  Slow ox for 30 minutes before tasting.
  
  Complex nose of smoked meats, dark fruits, bacon, licorice and liqueur; some leather (think a great leather perfume like Knize Ten) emerges with time. On the palate, dark fruits, pepper, granite flavours, wonderful driving acidity and noble tannins, good balance. Complex, precision, elegant, wow. Much better than my first bottle in 2017. Will look to hold this another 5-10 years to see where this goes, but likely at its apex now.

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  10/18/2017 - lightning wrote: flawed

  Explosive nose of red berry, a dash of granite, pepper, dried thyme with a heady whiff and feeling of ethanol that detracts. Cherry liqueur and seems quite ripe on the palate, medium to full bodied, feels a touch spirity; long but still fairly one dimensional at the moment. The spirity aspect on both nose and palate detracts significantly for me.
  
  Edited to NR: after a second bottle, this first bottle surely is not representative.

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  7/18/2015 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 94 Points

  A private dinner (Restaurant Chez Bruce *, Wandsworth, London, UK): Lively appearance, starts to brown at the edges; explosive nose, bursting with red berry fruit, fruity black pepper, granite, thyme, lifted floral aromas, precise, transparent and deep, still quite primary; medium weight, does not lack concentration but focuses on elegance and finesse in this lighter vintage, silky texture, lovely spicy warmth, subtle grip from beautifully ripe tannins; complete finish, very good length. A feminine Hermitage that resembles a Côte Rôtie in its expression. Loses its fragrance and finesse after some 90 minutes, so definitely not one for the decanter. Merveilleux.

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