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• essconsults Does not like this wine: 87 points

  September 27, 2015 - In the past 2 years I have had some not so good experiences with Faiveley from the old regime's Gevrey 1ers. First were some halves of the '02 Combe Aux Moines, next were some really awful halves of the '03 Cazetiers and now this. While all different, they all seemed to have too much extraction, dark roasted fruits, and too much oak leading to drying tannins. Hard to explain, unless they were all subject to bottle variation, and/or bad shipping or storage. This is the least bad, but I was expecting so much more. Ironically, the '10 version is the antithesis, all elegance and really refined tannins, just not as good as say the Bruno Clair Version.

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• Nubian commented:

  9/27/15, 3:32 PM - Oh Jesus would wait with the 2005 at least some 10 years or so, depending on what numbers you are storing. Perhaps the 09s are starting to drink a decade earlier. Be patient with this high flyer...

• essconsults commented:

  9/27/15, 6:30 PM - You may be right-Maybe-I have had several bottles of the Comte Senard Corton Clos Du Roi, the D'Ardhuy Savigny Peuillets, and the Chateau de Chorey Beaune Cras, all from '05, to "check-in" with the vintage, and they all drank well recently, if anything in fact they were all lacking a little depth and oomph. I think it's partially the vintage but more so the old Faiveley style. Also, on a completely separate note the (in)famous Courcel Epenots '04, one of the most brutally tannic, dark, overly extracted RBs I've ever had and that had a similar profile. That said, you may be right that these Faiveleys at least need much more time. I still have two bottles of the Cazetiers left, but I'm dubious. BH loved all of these wines and Gilman the Chorey and the Cazetiers, but I don't know...

• Nubian commented:

  9/30/15, 3:06 PM - Well possessing only one Cazetier and it is from 2005. Have hidden it deep down in the cellar taxing it to live another 20 yrs at least. Then I will be around 70 ;) but it will be worth it I guess. Hard to wait I know, but now I would not touch. My btl is from Serafin. Cheers Nubian

• essconsults commented:

  10/1/15, 12:56 PM - Good for you but I'm 67!!!! (and I'm impatient to begin with!)

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