1985 Domaine Joseph Roty Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Fontenys

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 95 points

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  12/28/2017 - ClosDuParadis wrote:

  A wine with no edges. Full, sweet, complex, fruits, spices ...and so long. A jewel! Tasted blind in a private after-tasting round at Château Pauqué's. Came after a Savigny-Champ-Chevrey 2003.
  Les Fontenys was so charming and energetic and forceful at the same time, really “une main de fer dans un gant de velours”, that I guessed Gevrey Grand cru from a rich year, but I was only couraged enough to announce 1990. Too short.
  This 32-year-old wine is a true feast.
  No dumb out-of-hundred points for this perfect mouth feeling.
  Beside the Meo Camuzet V-R Aux Brûlées 1995, my wine of the year.

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  2/6/2016 - don_quichotte Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Drank off the list at Ma cuisine in beaune. One of the best mature burgs I've had. Absolutely at peak: some spice, red and black fruits, beautiful texture. It retains a "gourmand" touch. A hypothetical mix of Leroy and Bachelet. Very special stuff. The 2002 burghound note below is way off the mark...

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