February 28, 2024 - Acker "Paulee" Burgundy Dinner (Capital Seafood - Beverly Hills CA): Paulée style dinner. Tasty for the problematic vintage, but not what we want from Grand Cru. Lighter style.
December 17, 2018 - Filippo's Fourrier Dinner (La Trompette, Chiswick): Medium/deep garnet. Dark, meaty fruit, spice, touch of white pepper. Medium/full bodied, complex dark fruit, spice, meaty notes, firm tannins, long finish. Serious wine, should improve. ***(*1/2)
December 17, 2018 - Fourrier makes aromatically great wines. A Gevrey producer making Chambolle smelling wines. A real richness to the nose but soars gloriously in that Burgundian way, finishes with citrus, liquorice, alluring, smoke, red fruit.
August 25, 2018 - Drank alongside a 1996 Ponsot Clos de la Roche. I will take the pure red cherry Fourrier nose any day. Gorgeous on the nose, but didn't quite deliver on the palate. Slightly clipped and less generous than the Ponsot. Nevertheless, just quibbles...a gorgeous wine. Also paired very well with pintade.
March 17, 2018 - I was expecting a lot of green notes and got nothing of the sort. Stunning nose of pure red cherry and a touch of earth. Good acidity, and just amazing purity of flavor on the palate. No tannin on the clean finish.
December 2, 2016 - Sexy black fruit and sous bois with perhaps just a hint of green with air. A tad thin on the palate otherwise a gorgeous showing for the vintage.
June 25, 2016 - Dinner at Ming San's (Ming San's): The less green of the two 2004s Gevrey Grand Crus on show, this was actually showing pretty nicely. The nose did seem a touch woodier than normal for a Fourrier wine, with hints of bramble and angelica root herb, but there were also the typically pure, arresting aromas of red fruit ringed with dried flowers and spice. Attractive. The palate was delicious. Barely a trace of the brambly herb notes on the nose here. Instead, this was all about clarity and finesse, with silky tannins and juicy acidity adding a fine grip to lovely pure flavours of dried cherries and red berries, with touch of flowery perfume drifting alongside. Past the midpalate and into the finish, some earth and mineral notes started coming into the mix. Not the most powerful Gevrey GC, as is often the case with Griotte, but this nicely elegant expression had no lack of depth. Seems to just on the cusp of drinking nicely as well.
November 20, 2015 - Earthy, more developed than I anticipated, a great match with Short Ribs.
February 28, 2015 - La Paulée de New York Gala Dinner (Metropolitan Pavilion - New York NY): Really good black fruit for the vintage but alas slightly corked.
April 19, 2014 - Exceptional stuff here. Very earthy both aromatically and on the palate. Quite powerful. Not even the slightest hint of vintage taint. Still a bit on the young-ish side -- probably even better 3-5 years out.