2005 Domaine Fourrier Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Combe aux Moines Vieille Vigne

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  3/22/2024 - Richard P Howden wrote: 94 Points

  PnP. Coming along so beautifully, starting to develop some nice secondary notes, adding complexity in the nose and palate. Incredible poise and balance, ethereal while maintaining depth and vigor. Still some tannins, so possibly some positive development still to come, but excellent now. Maybe Fourrier is helped a bit by the vintage - 2005 adding depth and weight but not hiding the hand of the producer.

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  3/29/2023 - drwine2001 wrote:

  A Taste of Aspen; 3/27/2023-3/29/2023: Opened and aerated for 3 hours before serving. Red center with maturing rim. A great old Burgundy nose to start with char, earth, faded strawberry, and moist undergrowth. Subsequently, more green tones took over. Lovely light weight and fruit/soil mix with excellent acidity and modest remaining tannins. In a very good place and surprisingly open for a 2005. My only disappointment is that it did not noticeably improve with air; rather, the fruit faded a bit and it started to become slightly astringent.

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  1/9/2023 - rossi.wine wrote: 95 Points

  Slight signs of discolouration around the rim. Expressive nose - notes of red fruit berry fruit, some darker fruit, too, as well as spices, mushrooms, earthy notes. On the palate mellow tannins, very well-integrated acidity, lots of fruit. Super elegant and fine with excellent length. Drinking well, but no rush at all. Fantastic bottle! 94-96

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  9/15/2022 - RobinTeo Likes this wine: 94 Points

  The one with Fourrier(s) (Imperial Treasure GWC): Fourrier 1er Night
  
  Same bewitching bouquet as the 2002 CAM that was full of ripe cherries, red flowers and red raspberries. I picked up some cola notes along with more red currants. This was slightly tighter than the 2002 CAM but there was a distinct sense that this would be a beast in maybe about 5 years time. This bottle was for me, telling of a great ripe vintage but perhaps just needed a bit more time to unfurl. Lovely depth, power and structure that had also screamed elegance through and through.

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  12/30/2021 - HowardNZ Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Magnum Society 2005 Domaine Fourrier Gevrey-Chambertin tasting (Hataitai, Wellington, NZ): Continuing up the slope of Clos St. Jacques, past Cazetiers at the top of the hill, bordered by woods, is Combe aux Moines. There was formerly a small limestone quarry. Morris says that it may have been planted by Benedictine monks as long ago as the seventh century and belonged to the Cluny monks until the French Revolution. Visiting the site today you can easily envisage monks (“Moines”) of the middle ages carrying on their religious services. The aspect is east but the quarry walls of the climat form an amphitheatre providing additional heat in summer, so the grapes always ripen. The slope is steep and rocky with white marl at the top and redder more iron-rich soils further down. Fourrier’s 0.87 ha vineyard was largely planted in 1928. I understand that this wine sees about 20% new barriques. Of all of Domaine Fourrier’s 1er cuvées, I rate Combe aux Moines second, behind only their Clos St. Jacques. Other houses like Faiveley and Louis Jadot produce wines from this site but they do not, for me, usually rise to the level of Fourrier’s best examples.
  
  Another clear step up in (the already very good) quality with the Combe aux Moines. On bouquet masses of intense very dark berry and cherry fruit with wet limestone or chalky minerality. Also, dark spices and a touch of smoky bacon, with a top note of violets and other dark florals. On palate, a large scaled, concentrated, sappy expression, the biggest so far. Not far from Grand Cru scale. But refined, pure and tense. Mineral with sleek dark plums and other black fruit. Excellent structure and suave, silky tannins. A very complete wine, finishing with a flinty austerity I really liked. Very long.
  
  B 0 | S 0 | G 34 | WoTN 2

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