Nose: earthy, candy, fresh cherry, red fruits, smoke, raspberry, tea leaves, mung beans Notes: Tasted blind and after a few rounds of guessing we confirmed this to be a Fourrier but I didn't catch Clos Saint Jacques before the label was revealed but what a nose this Fourrier is offering! With a good mix of fresh cherry and earthy notes this surely is a very elegant and relatively feminine Fourrier. Palate is well balanced and perhaps a little mature for 2013. After 2 hours of opening an intriguing nose and aftertaste of tea leaves appeared and this certainly makes the wine more enjoyable. If I must pick something to complain about it would be that the body is little light for a Clos Saint Jacques. Although this is drinking nicely now, I think it hasn't reached its prime yet, thus I would suggest one to wait a couple more years before drinking it. Drink: 2028+ Rating: 92
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Such a nice surprise for a Fourrier when it was served in blind. It was ethereal and weightless with pure red and purple fruit. The lightness indicated the weaker vintage but I was astounded by the purity.
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Night and day difference in showing from this bottle in March. In hindsight, I think the last one may have had travel shock. Tonight, 2013 CSJ coming from 100+ year old vines is superb after a lengthy slow ox, soaring from the glass with crazy aromatic intensity showing a delicate oak framed red and blue fruited profile with winter citrus, cocoa bean and red roses. The palate shows Grand Cru depth, stunning elegance and purity with fine grained tannins and a penetrating salty mineral laced finale that goes on and on. It’s still young, but 13’s from the big dogs are really starting to shine. Hold the reductive 12’s and tannic 14’s and pop the elegant 13’s.
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Well well well. Certainly not like Rousseau and Dujac 13’s. (Plenty of others drinking great too). Fourrier’s 2013 CSJ is tight as a drum, totally shut down and offers nothing even after 3+ hours in the decanter. Reductive, acidic and short. I guess you cannot win them all!
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Slow ox for 4 hours then back to the fridge to chill. Super ready for Fourrier. Superb floral nose, cool blue fruit at its core, juicy, lots of spice, refreshing vintage acidity perfectly balanced. Palate is sweet, edgeless and substantial; there is real drive in this wine. Yum. Split with Rayas 2005 as WOTN. 94
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Decanted for one hour. Some lavender and good minerality. But for some reason I didn't warm up to the wine that much and wasn't a huge fan despite it clearly being a very good pinot.
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Helt nydelig duft. Lukter høst i norsk fjellheim. Lyng og krekling. I munnen har vinen ganske muskuløs frukt som likevel preges av delikate aromaer. Tanninene er dessverre noe grønne og undermodne. God lengde, men finish blir vel bitter og trå. En ikke helt optimal flaske? Fortjener likevel 92p, spesielt for sin utsøkte nese.
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Bright, with typical Fourrier fruit but with some lovely Clos St. Jacques darker fruit elements on the palate. No rush to drink this, but no harm in it either.
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La Paulée de New York - The Verticals (Eventi Hotel - New York NY): Walk around tasting in 13/11/09 vertical. Black berry and cherry with both lean and sweet characteristics and delicate spice. Good weight, great balance, finishes with sneaky good length and power. Getting close to its drinking window, 92-94 point potential, 2023 forward.
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Tasted blind and the high toast new oak, sleek and complex earthy dark fruits with 1er Cru weight suggest Fourrier Clos St Jacques. Fourrier wines are aged in high toast new oak, giving the wines good lift and spices. Sexy high toast spices, inner floral note and sleek minerals that reminds me of the cooler climate Premier Crus in Gevrey Chambertin, knocking on GC doors. Gevrey Chambertin Clos St Jacques? Fourrier? 2012? (92/100)
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Quite typical of the producer, forward fruit and stem influence, alongside violet and soil tones. All finesse on the palate, softly textured with well-delineated flavors of dark fruit and minerals. The 2013 Clos St Jacques is excellent today but of course one needs to cellar these for the long haul. Best starting 2024.
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Beautiful red fruits, sappy extract meets freshness with an herbal edge. Fine grained tannins, silky/satiny texture. Was a little surprising, as I often find Fourrier a little sweet for my tastes, but here there's an extra lick of freshness and power on the back. Delicious and compelling.
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Tasted Blind. No decanting. Guess 2008 Gevrey of high caliber. Interestingly enough we had this one month ago (Papies 93). Once again a solid wine thta we are only getting a glimpse now. Bright red fruit, light smoky side, good depth of fruit but just about ripe enough. Very solid again. 93
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Bright, brambly, red fruit. So fresh and young at this stage but still a joy to be had. Good density of fruit, very much primary still, well assimilated oak. We got a glimpse of what this wine coudl offer in the future but not unhappy at all we had this so young. Very solid. 92-93 for now lots of future though and potential we believe/felt.
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Dinner with JM Fourrier. Relatively closed, but can smell and taste the Gevrey character. Nice minerality and opened up with time in glass, developing pleasant acetate aromas.
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3 Clos St. Jacques and 3 Rousseau's + 1 Dujac = 6 wines tasted blind: N. 1 Very elegant, green note, floral too. A hint of citrus fruit. Dense at first, it gets lighter on the midpalate and finishes on blood orange notes. Saline on the very long finish. Very nice. Me: 1.5 Group: 8.5
Retasted over three more days, this showed more clearly a green streak on the nose, reminding of geranium - not very nice, but it dissipated eventually. Also: tannins became more prominent. This needs a lot of time.
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Clos Saint Jacques Perspective (Chez Gilberto): Cool, compact red fruit with a tight, precise structure. A subtly sauvage, animal note. The wine opens after a few hours and gains in intensity of the red fruit. Fourrier's house signature stands out in the purity, the elegance and the directness of this wine.
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Acker Burgundy Dinner (The Writing Room (88th & 2nd Ave)): When the wine first hit the glass I wasn't sure what all the fuss was about. It was pretty closed down and all I really got was a bit of unripe red currant. Sitting in the glass though the wine opened up and much faster than it's brethren. Very fruit dominated and a really nice clean crisp fruit flavor. Would be interesting to see this in 10-15 years when it's past the baby stage (although not sure interesting enough given the price point).
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Vinen fikk ikke den nødvendige Fourrier-shake og var litt rik på Co2. Rik nese med skogsbær og bjørnebær, urter og noe krydder. Slank munnfølelse, spicy, skogsbær og noe mørke aromaer i retning tjære og rålakris. Hissig og energisk. Lang, syrlig og lett bitter avslutning.
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Domaine Fourrier Wine Dinner with Jean-Marie Fourrier (Nomi, Chicago): This is the second time I've had this wine recently and it just doesn't do it for me. Perhaps it's the 2013 vintage as I do enjoy Fourrier's CSJ in other vintages. There was decent berry fruit but I just couldn't get past the acidity. For me, the wine just seemed incomplete. Is also suffered by being served alongside the 07 'Sentiers and 05 CSJ. Perhaps it will come together in time.
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La Paulée de San Francisco - Grand Tasting (The Fairmont - San Francisco CA): Tasting, brief note. Slightly floral with black berry and cherry aromas. Slightly riper flavors than aromas, but this has such impressive balance at this youthful stage that the ripeness just comes across as fun and engaging. But the weight and density makes it clear this will significantly improve from here. Excellent 95+ point potential. One of the day's highlights.
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La Paulée 2016 Grand Tasting-Overview of the 2013 Vintage (The Fairmont, San Francisco): Red color. Immediately more complex nose with more soil as well as that incredible fruit. Here the fruit is darker and deeper than in the 2 other Gevreys. Crystalline fruit, fabulous texture. This is wildly delicious and bursting with the essence of Burgundy fruit and flavor. Hard to ask for more than this. One of the red wines of the afternoon.
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This is a gem. Medium colour and weight with terrific concentration on the palate. Bags of complex red fruit flavours, fine tannins and lots of spicy notes. Excellent stuff. Estimated maturity: From 2023
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Superb nose, perfumed, very complex, floral, with fine fruit, smoke... Big and rich on the palate, great mouthfeel, bright acidity, lively, mineral, round tannins, great length. 92-94(+?)
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A 2013 Barrel Tasting at Domaine Fourrier (Gevrey-Chambertin, Côte de Nuits, Burgundy): Vicki mentioned the beautiful millerandage grapes from which this CSJ was made. The vineyard was planted in 1910. The CSJ was in the middle of heavy malo. A bouquet of violets and other dark flowers, extraordinarily perfumed, but with fruit aromas as well. Notes of red and black berry fruit, across the spectrum. On palate, this is right on the money. Excellent fruit with serious matière and structure. Complex, multi-layered flavours of red and black fruits with minerality. Long, persistent and focused with very soft tannins considering its stage of development. A profound wine that stopped us in our tracks.
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3/18/2024 - TWSA Likes this wine: 92 Points
Nose: earthy, candy, fresh cherry, red fruits, smoke, raspberry, tea leaves, mung beans
Notes: Tasted blind and after a few rounds of guessing we confirmed this to be a Fourrier but I didn't catch Clos Saint Jacques before the label was revealed but what a nose this Fourrier is offering! With a good mix of fresh cherry and earthy notes this surely is a very elegant and relatively feminine Fourrier. Palate is well balanced and perhaps a little mature for 2013. After 2 hours of opening an intriguing nose and aftertaste of tea leaves appeared and this certainly makes the wine more enjoyable. If I must pick something to complain about it would be that the body is little light for a Clos Saint Jacques. Although this is drinking nicely now, I think it hasn't reached its prime yet, thus I would suggest one to wait a couple more years before drinking it.
Drink: 2028+
Rating: 92
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3/18/2024 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 93 Points
Such a nice surprise for a Fourrier when it was served in blind. It was ethereal and weightless with pure red and purple fruit. The lightness indicated the weaker vintage but I was astounded by the purity.
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3/28/2023 - RayOB wrote: 90 Points
Drank at 67
light cherry, fresh and acidic
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9/9/2022 - finediningnyc Likes this wine: 96 Points
Night and day difference in showing from this bottle in March. In hindsight, I think the last one may have had travel shock. Tonight, 2013 CSJ coming from 100+ year old vines is superb after a lengthy slow ox, soaring from the glass with crazy aromatic intensity showing a delicate oak framed red and blue fruited profile with winter citrus, cocoa bean and red roses. The palate shows Grand Cru depth, stunning elegance and purity with fine grained tannins and a penetrating salty mineral laced finale that goes on and on. It’s still young, but 13’s from the big dogs are really starting to shine. Hold the reductive 12’s and tannic 14’s and pop the elegant 13’s.
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3/19/2022 - finediningnyc Does not like this wine:
Well well well. Certainly not like Rousseau and Dujac 13’s. (Plenty of others drinking great too). Fourrier’s 2013 CSJ is tight as a drum, totally shut down and offers nothing even after 3+ hours in the decanter. Reductive, acidic and short. I guess you cannot win them all!
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3/4/2022 - hprphf Likes this wine: 94 Points
Slow ox for 4 hours then back to the fridge to chill. Super ready for Fourrier. Superb floral nose, cool blue fruit at its core, juicy, lots of spice, refreshing vintage acidity perfectly balanced. Palate is sweet, edgeless and substantial; there is real drive in this wine. Yum. Split with Rayas 2005 as WOTN. 94
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12/10/2020 - BenBlu Likes this wine: 92 Points
Decanted for one hour. Some lavender and good minerality. But for some reason I didn't warm up to the wine that much and wasn't a huge fan despite it clearly being a very good pinot.
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9/2/2020 - vinkeger wrote: 92 Points
Helt nydelig duft. Lukter høst i norsk fjellheim. Lyng og krekling. I munnen har vinen ganske muskuløs frukt som likevel preges av delikate aromaer. Tanninene er dessverre noe grønne og undermodne. God lengde, men finish blir vel bitter og trå. En ikke helt optimal flaske? Fortjener likevel 92p, spesielt for sin utsøkte nese.
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3/10/2020 - Nicephoras wrote:
Bright, with typical Fourrier fruit but with some lovely Clos St. Jacques darker fruit elements on the palate. No rush to drink this, but no harm in it either.
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3/6/2020 - Burgundy Al wrote:
La Paulée de New York - The Verticals (Eventi Hotel - New York NY): Walk around tasting in 13/11/09 vertical. Black berry and cherry with both lean and sweet characteristics and delicate spice. Good weight, great balance, finishes with sneaky good length and power. Getting close to its drinking window, 92-94 point potential, 2023 forward.
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3/6/2020 - drwine2001 wrote:
The Verticals Tasting at 2020 La Paulée de New York (Eventi Hotel, New York): Gorgeous round, light but sappy, supple, deliciously spicy wine with a fine vein of soil and delightful citrus zest to add lift. Outstanding vintage of this standout wine.
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9/29/2019 - Jammy Wine wrote: 92 Points
Tasted blind and the high toast new oak, sleek and complex earthy dark fruits with 1er Cru weight suggest Fourrier Clos St Jacques. Fourrier wines are aged in high toast new oak, giving the wines good lift and spices. Sexy high toast spices, inner floral note and sleek minerals that reminds me of the cooler climate Premier Crus in Gevrey Chambertin, knocking on GC doors. Gevrey Chambertin Clos St Jacques? Fourrier? 2012? (92/100)
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5/24/2019 - rlove wrote: 93 Points
Quite typical of the producer, forward fruit and stem influence, alongside violet and soil tones. All finesse on the palate, softly textured with well-delineated flavors of dark fruit and minerals. The 2013 Clos St Jacques is excellent today but of course one needs to cellar these for the long haul. Best starting 2024.
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4/6/2019 - hprphf wrote: 90 Points
Acker April Auction 2019 (sad day) (Marea): Juicy green fruit, slightly acidic but with length. 90
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3/4/2018 - Robert Pavlovich Likes this wine:
Beautiful red fruits, sappy extract meets freshness with an herbal edge. Fine grained tannins, silky/satiny texture. Was a little surprising, as I often find Fourrier a little sweet for my tastes, but here there's an extra lick of freshness and power on the back. Delicious and compelling.
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3/2/2018 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
Some Wine Tasted at the Zachys La Paulée Auction (Mourad - San Francisco CA): Small glass, brief note. Elegant black and red cherry with good+ weight, excellent textures. Very good already, but probably better from 2020.
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3/27/2017 - Papies wrote: 93 Points
Tasted Blind. No decanting. Guess 2008 Gevrey of high caliber.
Interestingly enough we had this one month ago (Papies 93). Once again a solid wine thta we are only getting a glimpse now. Bright red fruit, light smoky side, good depth of fruit but just about ripe enough. Very solid again. 93
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2/16/2017 - Papies wrote: 93 Points
Bright, brambly, red fruit. So fresh and young at this stage but still a joy to be had. Good density of fruit, very much primary still, well assimilated oak. We got a glimpse of what this wine coudl offer in the future but not unhappy at all we had this so young. Very solid. 92-93 for now lots of future though and potential we believe/felt.
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1/11/2017 - fcxj wrote: 94 Points
Dinner with JM Fourrier. Relatively closed, but can smell and taste the Gevrey character. Nice minerality and opened up with time in glass, developing pleasant acetate aromas.
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12/10/2016 - gilrbo wrote:
3 Clos St. Jacques and 3 Rousseau's + 1 Dujac = 6 wines tasted blind: N. 1
Very elegant, green note, floral too. A hint of citrus fruit.
Dense at first, it gets lighter on the midpalate and finishes on blood orange notes.
Saline on the very long finish. Very nice.
Me: 1.5
Group: 8.5
Retasted over three more days, this showed more clearly a green streak on the nose, reminding of geranium - not very nice, but it dissipated eventually.
Also: tannins became more prominent. This needs a lot of time.
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12/10/2016 - paul clark wrote:
Clos Saint Jacques Perspective (Chez Gilberto): Cool, compact red fruit with a tight, precise structure. A subtly sauvage, animal note. The wine opens after a few hours and gains in intensity of the red fruit. Fourrier's house signature stands out in the purity, the elegance and the directness of this wine.
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11/22/2016 - wineordeath Likes this wine: 93 Points
Still restrained nose of strawberry and raspberry with faint spice in the background. Lovely balance. Rich but not heavy.
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5/17/2016 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
Acker Burgundy Dinner (The Writing Room (88th & 2nd Ave)): When the wine first hit the glass I wasn't sure what all the fuss was about. It was pretty closed down and all I really got was a bit of unripe red currant. Sitting in the glass though the wine opened up and much faster than it's brethren. Very fruit dominated and a really nice clean crisp fruit flavor. Would be interesting to see this in 10-15 years when it's past the baby stage (although not sure interesting enough given the price point).
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4/27/2016 - heiamat.no wrote: 91 Points
Vinen fikk ikke den nødvendige Fourrier-shake og var litt rik på Co2. Rik nese med skogsbær og bjørnebær, urter og noe krydder. Slank munnfølelse, spicy, skogsbær og noe mørke aromaer i retning tjære og rålakris. Hissig og energisk. Lang, syrlig og lett bitter avslutning.
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4/1/2016 - EhrlichDY wrote:
Domaine Fourrier Wine Dinner with Jean-Marie Fourrier (Nomi, Chicago): This is the second time I've had this wine recently and it just doesn't do it for me. Perhaps it's the 2013 vintage as I do enjoy Fourrier's CSJ in other vintages. There was decent berry fruit but I just couldn't get past the acidity. For me, the wine just seemed incomplete. Is also suffered by being served alongside the 07 'Sentiers and 05 CSJ. Perhaps it will come together in time.
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3/5/2016 - Burgundy Al wrote:
La Paulée de San Francisco - Grand Tasting (The Fairmont - San Francisco CA): Tasting, brief note. Slightly floral with black berry and cherry aromas. Slightly riper flavors than aromas, but this has such impressive balance at this youthful stage that the ripeness just comes across as fun and engaging. But the weight and density makes it clear this will significantly improve from here. Excellent 95+ point potential. One of the day's highlights.
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3/5/2016 - alanr wrote: 91 Points
2016 La Paulee San Francisco - Saturday Grand Tasting (Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco): Rich, lush, opulent, very forward, quite typical of the Fourrier style.
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3/5/2016 - drwine2001 wrote:
La Paulée 2016 Grand Tasting-Overview of the 2013 Vintage (The Fairmont, San Francisco): Red color. Immediately more complex nose with more soil as well as that incredible fruit. Here the fruit is darker and deeper than in the 2 other Gevreys. Crystalline fruit, fabulous texture. This is wildly delicious and bursting with the essence of Burgundy fruit and flavor. Hard to ask for more than this. One of the red wines of the afternoon.
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1/29/2016 - EhrlichDY wrote:
Lunch with 2012 and 2013 Fourrier CSJ and Griotte, 95 Raveneau Blanchot, 05 Leflaive Chevalier and more (Black Salt, Washington DC): Drank single blind alongside the 2012. The perfume on this wine alone was worth the price of admission. The aromas were pure and dominated by sweet berry fruit. The palate was a bit more elusive and clumsy as the typical 2013 acids were at the forefront. Still, the fruit and spice are lurking underneath and this one could be incredible if it all comes together. Hands off for now.
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1/16/2015 - nskelsey wrote: 93 Points
This is a gem. Medium colour and weight with terrific concentration on the palate. Bags of complex red fruit flavours, fine tannins and lots of spicy notes. Excellent stuff. Estimated maturity: From 2023
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1/14/2015 - rossi.wine wrote: 93 Points
Superb nose, perfumed, very complex, floral, with fine fruit, smoke... Big and rich on the palate, great mouthfeel, bright acidity, lively, mineral, round tannins, great length. 92-94(+?)
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10/28/2014 - HowardNZ Likes this wine:
A 2013 Barrel Tasting at Domaine Fourrier (Gevrey-Chambertin, Côte de Nuits, Burgundy): Vicki mentioned the beautiful millerandage grapes from which this CSJ was made. The vineyard was planted in 1910. The CSJ was in the middle of heavy malo. A bouquet of violets and other dark flowers, extraordinarily perfumed, but with fruit aromas as well. Notes of red and black berry fruit, across the spectrum. On palate, this is right on the money. Excellent fruit with serious matière and structure. Complex, multi-layered flavours of red and black fruits with minerality. Long, persistent and focused with very soft tannins considering its stage of development. A profound wine that stopped us in our tracks.
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