Community Tasting Note

• Robert Pavlovich wrote:

  September 17, 2020 - This is just different from the wine fashions of today, it’s very much built on its firm, rigid acidity and tannic structure, while the red fruit does have some charm to it, and while it isn’t hidden it’s rather restrained. Some secondary nuance is starting to take shape, a bit of smokiness, spice, and soil. There’s a strong sense of solemness and sturdiness to the wine that tells of world wars, or of people who grew up closer to the impact of those times, and with that it also shows a capacity to age for quite a while, that is if the fruit will hold up. If opening now, best to follow over a couple days as it does better with air, or leave it for later this decade.
  
  I remember tasting some of Faiveley’s 08’s near release, and this wine took me back to that tasting, the wines tending to have a guarded personality, and doing well with food, and cheese in particular. Also got to meet Erwan at that tasting nearly a decade ago, having no idea that he was just starting his tenure. 08’ is generally considered a transition year for the house, and this bottle, suffice it to say, shows as more traditional Faiveley than new.

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5 Comments

• WEB,III commented:

  9/26/20, 9:56 AM - Thank you for the note. The “guarded” character you reference for this 2008 could be attributed to the vintage character not being as generous, lush, in general, as much as Faiveley style at the time. The Faiveley style was already evolving; tasting 2007 versus 2006 is a stark contrast in style evolution, for example. Virtually the entire elevage regime, including cooperage being replaced, significantly changed between 2008 and 2006. Of course, the generosity of the 2009 vintage, in general, accentuated the evolution chez Faiveley and is widely considered the vintage when the Global Market took notice of Faiveley evolution. This is at least partially corroborated by Tanzer rating Corton Clos des Corton-Faiveley 2009 his wine of the vintage. I look forward to opening the NSG LSG is the coming years.

• Robert Pavlovich commented:

  9/26/20, 10:15 AM - Yes, would agree that naturally, the vintage character obscures how we view what changes were or were not being made leading up to the rather plush vintages of 2009 and 2010. Even with this figured in the 2008 LSG does seem more traditional Faiveley in approach, and/or just picked a bit earlier than others like Chevillon.

• WEB,III commented:

  9/26/20, 10:52 AM - Understood. I look forward to checking on bottles in the coming years. Interesting that Tanzer believes the wine “transcends its village”:
  
  “Palish medium red. Medicinal red cherry, minerals, crushed stone, violet, rose petal and white pepper on the noble nose. Wonderfully silky and pure, with ineffable flavors of red fruits, spices, flowers and minerals. This is wonderfully delicate, and not a fleshy wine, yet saturates every square millimeter of the palate with flavor. The long, sweet, rising finish offers terrific cut and floral lift. Should make a worthy successor to the outstanding 2007, which also transcends its village. Hervet says that this will be bottled by hand, without filtration.”

• Robert Pavlovich commented:

  9/26/20, 11:11 AM - Reading that makes me wish I had more. Will say the 08’ carried more interest than the 12’ did last year, even accounting for its youth the 12’ didn’t seem to have the stuffing to age that the 08’ possesses.

• WEB,III commented:

  9/26/20, 11:25 AM - Interesting perspective. I will say that around 2012/2013 vintage Erwan Faiveley commented that arguably the Faiveley evolution had been pushed to the limit, and style was going to be reigned back it in hopes of achieving the optimal synergy of the old and new style. And, regarding Burgundy 2012 vintage, in general, I have not tasted enough Village, 1er Cru & GC recently to have command of wine evolution. However, I will say that for the Regional reds, i.e. Bourgogne Rouge, I have not been as smitten with them, in general, as the vintage hype was at release. Good wines, but not in the league of say 2010 for me.

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