Top 1ers for AK's birthday: In the flight of the first four wines, there were 3 Vosnes and 1 Gevrey. Most felt that the Cathiard was the Gevrey but the minority (including myself) said that this had to be the Gevrey since it was the outlier stylistically. Slightly cloudy in appearance, especially compared to the three Vosnes that were brilliant ruby red in colour. Older style of Fourrier with more earthy and rustic notes before he transitioned to the high-toned, less dense style of today. Guessed ‘08 based on the colour and high acidity. Quite integrated and resolved but the fruit did become more expressive with air.
Perplexing because it does not look clear and if I have any experience of soupy wine it is with 06s. Outshines a Roumier CM Village 06 on the night but that is no fair contest. From my recollection there was so much more delineation in the 07.
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We opened this after a bottle of 13 mugneret ruchottes that needed more air and this really delivered. Was open at first pour. Lively nose and palate with tons of red fruit, slight spiced and good length. A very good wine. 2006's in general are drinking well now and this Fourrier confirmed that. with more air the 13 ruchottes did outshine it at the end.
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Nice dark ripe red fruited with a serious structured frame. Great spices, just slightly over ripe and structured for my taste today. So 2006. Potential is clearly here.
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1/12, excellent cork. Pale/medium garnet core, pale garnet rim. Aromatic with pure strawberry fruit wafting from the glass, florals then a hint of animal. Medium bodied, strawberry, flashes of dark cherry, meaty notes, spice, fine tannins, vibrant acids, very good length finish, faint tickle of tannin. Perhaps a touch of oxidation on the last glass, but excellent.
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Asparagus Bday Celebration at ES BK. Drank in Grassl Cru. Apearance is murky not clear, medium intensity, garnet colour. Legs. Nose pronounced intensity, with aromas of dirty earth, scattered red cherries, sarsaparilla cola with more air. Developed. On the palate, dry, medium acidity, medium alcohol (13.5%), resolved tannins, medium+ body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of soupy red cherries, spice all over the place, dirty savoury earth, decaying leaves, cola with more air. Medium+ finish. Soupy and savoury are the main descriptors here. Complex. Might actually be an abnormally advanced off-bottle though. Tastes older than I expected. Nice but not really for longer keeping based on this.
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Lonny Should Turn 65 More Often (The Kenwood, Mpls, MN): Medium dark red color. Drank a glass over 2 hours. See Chablis28's notes for his prep and excellent review. Drank this next to the '02 Jadot CSJ. There's more youth and density here in the Fourrier. This has a beautiful expression of fruit and spice with ripe berries and black cherry, intense savory spices with a cinnamon top note and splendid dried herbs. More medium full bodied with velveteen texture and great length. Outstanding.
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Bought 3 of these a year or 2 after release. This btl comes along 11yrs after my first & much more fully realized at 16. This embraced the Furrier style of well fruited and richer Gevreys along with the added depth, concentration, intensity and wow factor expected from the CSJ site. Tonight's btl was a fun comparison alongside a lovely '02 Jadot CSJ and Lonny's '14 Dujac Chambolle-Musigny 1er Les Gruenchers. What a flight! I was very happy with its fruit purity and intensity. It also showed a bold spice box with cinnamon in the lead. Terrific forest floor notes underpin everything. Delighted to own one more that I'll likely open 2026+. Opened for 2 hours and slow-oxed in a Reidel Burg & btl before leaving to the Kenwood where I removed the coke again upon arrival. We started drinking it an hour later after some terrific champagne & still whites.
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Complex aromas of black fruits, earth, hoisin, spices, cherries. Seamless, medium weighted wine with lacy tannins and a long finish. Balanced, nuanced, complex. Mouth perfume is captivating. Drinking so well tonight.
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Tasted next to a Ponsot CdlR and it suffered a bit for it. Animal nose, with some secondary notes. Chewy, with sour dry cherries and good length. Excellent and surprisingly mature and ready.
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Excellent. Drank alongside Rousseau 98 and 06 CSJs and it held its own well. Opens up more after an hour and keeps going with big punchy aromas of wet grass, hoisin and smoked meat.
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Blue fruit, meaty, dark florals, brown sugar, creamy vanilla, grassy, green herbs, pungent, citrus, quite characteristic to the vintage. CSJ is what it is for a reason. Popping dimensions and electric energy. Encompassing layers with extra smoothness of the old vines. 94-95
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Christmas spice on the nose, earthy and quite intense. Dark fruited, quite serious stuff, big avid frame keeps everything very tight, this is super concentrated and a little unforgiving but it’s begging to show what it’s got.
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Bottle breathe for 1 hour before serving. Similar note to another bottle opened in Jan 2020. The nose is rich with raspberry. The palate is smooth, full body with jam-like red fruit. Tannin is integrated and matured. Long finishing. Peak 2.5 hours but continued to be enjoyable for another hour or two.
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Rather a brown colour; the nose is perfumed, the palate fairly rich with fully mature fruit and some vegetal flavours. It has lost its youthful vigour and is tasting mature, yet it is also a little austere with some lingering tannin. Perhaps it will improve further over the next few years.
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Chill at Niseko 2020 New Year (Niseko, Hokkiado, Japan): Opened at 4pm, and started drinking at 8pm. The nose is more reserved, and a bit oak with red fruit aroma. The palate is somehow full body, strong (among the 4) with jammy fruit, chewy cherry fruit. Very powerful and long finishing.
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The 2006 Fourrier Clos Saint Jacques is stylistically more old school than the 2011 Fourrier Clos Saint Jacques next to it. Tasted blind – A rich and ripe array of dark berries, deep spices, hints of dried prunes and meaty note. Ultra-ripe fruits with fair acidity. Gevrey Chambertin 1er Cru? 2005? (88/100)
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Nose of fresh strawberries, eucalyptus and wet leaves. Candied maraschino cherries and fine tannins on the palate, lots of acidity. Structured and long. I’d wait a few more years if I had one...
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Clos St Jacques Dinner (Gunther's, Purivs Street, Singapore): Really nice. The nose was a bit different from the other wines, with a bit of sweet oak framing nice, fragrant aromas of red fruit, hawthorne, earth and spice. The palate was probably the tightest of the lot, with fine firm tannins and bright acidity giving a bit of a chew to otherwise fairly intense notes of dark cherries, earth and spice. Great long finish too. Full, powerful and compelling, but this needs time yet. It was blushing and delicious on first pour, but shut down slightly after half an hour in the glass, with a firm structure coming to the fore.
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Dinner with John and Kat (St Claudes): Decanted 2 hours. The nose was vivid - deep, forest, earthy notes with black fruits. The palate is seamless, medium weighted and has good length. There’s some spice here, with a mix of dried herbs too. Very good showing.
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Acker April Auction 2019 (sad day) (Marea): From Magnum. So sexy and appealing, spicy, juicy, good minerals, backward finish and clean. Great for this vintage, but declined quickly. 93
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Wines Tasted at HDH Auction; 12/13/2018-12/15/2018 (Spiaggia - Chicago IL): Small glass, brief note. Lots of ripe black cherry and plum with roasted meat and slightly sweet spice. Very good concentration bodes well for its longevity, I just think it is still fairly unevolved and less complex than it can/ will be. I will cellar my bottles for a few more years, but think there is 92-93 point potential here.
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Double decanted for a few hours. A gorgeous texture, but not the delineation I want in a Burgundy. The length exhibited makes me hopeful this will hit all the promised notes- but it's not there quite yet. Maybe 5 years more?
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HDH Dec auction trip/dinners at SKY and RPM Italian; 12/13/2018-12/15/2018: An impressive wine - it's packed with ripe red and black fruit, with more flamboyant herbal, spicy, and floral scents emerging around the fruit. It doesn't have the lower-toned earthy notes that I typically expect from Gevrey, but it's delicious all the same and very easy to drink now with fine grained tannin and bright acids making it very accessible now.
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HDH December auction; 12/13/2018-12/15/2018 (Chicago, IL): There's something about Fourrier that always strikes me as stemmy, even though there are no stems. Lovely black fruit, with a nice sweet ripeness and black fruit. Good density on the palate, but I don't pick up enough of the earthiness that I would expect from the village.
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Had this at the Charleston off-line for Burgundy night.
This was part of the second Burgundy flight of the night, served along side the 1999 Lucien Le Moine Corton-Clos du Roi and '05 Groffier Bonnes Mares.
All of the wines were close to a pop and pour, so they were tasted slowly to allow some time to evolve in the glass.
This was the lightest of the three red burgundies. This one also started out on the tart side, but developed with time in the glass, but not as much as the Corton. Crisp clean flavors of tart cherry, spice and earth.
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Quite a deep colour, garnet tending towards brown; the fruit is intense, with a slightly cooked, even burnt, character; savoury, profound and long on the finish. An excellent wine, now mature but still with vigour.
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Charleston Offlineorama IV; 9/27/2018-10/1/2018 (Charleston, NC (various locations)): 3rd flight served at Burg Thurs dinner - alongside '99 Lucien Le Moine Clos du Roi and '05 Groffier Bonnes Mare. Paired with Tea smoked Duck, Charleston Grits, poultry glaze and plum paste. My second favorite of the flight. The Fourrier had a pretty nose, slightly more floral and spice with red berries. On the palate this was more concentrated the the Le Moine, but slightly less elegant. The red cherry fruit was complemented by some spices (perhaps a hint of cinnamon) and lots of earthy goodness. Really enjoyed tasting this with duck and plum paste - just popped in the mouth with this combination.
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Charleston IV - Return of the Collectible; 9/27/2018-9/30/2018 (Charleston, SC (various locations)): My favorite of the line-up upon first trying through them. This is the wine that came across as most elegant in nature. Lighter. A bit less barnyard, a bit more pristine fruit. Interesting because through the course of the evening as it opened up the barnyard came through and the Corton became a bit crisper. It's an elegant wine and enjoyable.
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Ken served five wines blind and told us that they are from the same vintage and vineyard. Very youthful but not terribly complex nose displaying concentrated black fruit, dark spices and earth. Excellent concentration, layers upon layers of black fruit, medium acidity, earthy mineral and a medium to long black fruit driven finish. Once Ken points out the vineyard, I guess Fourrier. I typically find the Fourrier CSJ more hedonistic and concentrated but not as complex and refined as the Rousseau version. In 2006, I much prefer the Rousseau and, surprisingly, the Esmonin version.
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Dinner with Jean Marie in HK- This wine has blossomed since my previous experience in late 2015. Nose has spice, flowers, sweet red fruit, and perfume. The palate has some alluring sweet red fruit with good minerality. Not a blockbuster wine but its very elegant and expressive. It is drinking beautifully now. 93+
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One of 6 2006's enjoyed over the course of 2 days- La tache, Chambertin and close de Beze from Rousseau, CSJ from rousseau and fourrier and 2006 Bonnes mares from roumier- We had the CSJ's side by side at lunch. The Fourrier took a bit longer to show. It was the burlier wine in comparison to the rousseau. Rougher not as elegant. a more tannic wine that was darker in color. As time passed became more ope. Showed red berries, meat but not as much earth. I preferred the rousseau while Ian like this better.
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Chez Flint Gevrey dinner, youthful, deepish coloured; attractive nose, rich red fruit driven, some meat and spice; fullish, decent length, persistence and grip, nice sweet core to fruit, slightly burly v finer but less attractive Rousseau. F+ (18).
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Much darker and more burly than the 08. More fruit and more tannins. A bit of reduction which blows off after a while. Not closing up but could use quite a bit more time. Seems like it will age longer than the 08.
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Dom Perignon Dinner (Cherry Circle Room - Chicago IL): Fun bonus wine tonight. All black fruit aromas with great spice and meaty notes. Black and red cherry flavors, starting off with less intensity than what comes across aromatically, then slightly hollow/closed in the middle. Fruit nicely re-emerges on finish. 94 point nose, 90 point palate today, but I expect more 2020 forward, and will hold my bottles until then or later.
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Fairly deep colour, some brick; fresh strawberry/raspberry/redcurrant fruit, lively and energetic, full and long. Excellent wine, approachable now but with a long life ahead.
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a beautiful nose that jumped out of the bottle. violets, berries and a nice light red hue. found the wine to be restrained on the palate. Not as accessible and giving as other premier cru Fourrier's.
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VERTICALE CSJ FOURRIER VS. ROUSSEAU: Molto rotondo, maturo e autunnale. La terra di Gevrey, il catrame e i marron glacées. Frutto maturo foderante e bassa acidità. Ha un tannino granulare molto meno fine rispetto ai migliori della batteria e una terziarizzazione già avanzata. In confronto al 2005 sembra un vino con 10 anni di più. Buono e composto,ma forse bottiglia non al 100%....
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Light to medium red in color, very aromatic red fruit nose with dried meat, spices and red flowers. Certainly a lighter vintage with an awesome nose but sub par palate intensity and depth. Also not so good price to performance ratio vs launch price.
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This is very restrained now. It had purple flower, black fruit, spice and dried meat. Palate was tight in which the fruit was not showing particularly well. This wine will take a few years to show its best.
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Fairly deep colour, still quite youthful looking; quite an evolved nose with both fruit and vegetal elements, and a hint of cabbage; secondary flavours are starting to develop on the palate also, which has persistence and length. There is still some tannin on the finsh. Approachable now but should still develop further.
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This is quite restrained right now. Not tannic but very muted especially on the palate. The nose is quite good with dark cherry and earthy tones but is holding back. The palate is even more restrained. It needs at least 5 years to unfold.
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Almost extraordinarily underwhelming right now. Excellent aromatics -- very earthy. Palate is where it falters. Doesn't know what it wants to be -- now or when it grows up. Drinks, frankly, like a $40 bottle. Do the aromatics bump it up to market? No. Try again 3+ years out and hope for better......
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Quite a deep, dark colour; fresh, ripe, black cherry nose; dark fruits on the palate, which is soft, with good weight and a very slight spritz (which I am not too keen on). This is tasting fairly mature, but there is still a little tannin on the finish and I think it will keep well. Overall, a fine example.
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NadNash dinners: Bright, vivacious, red fruited. The flavour profile is essentially the same as the villages, but it just has that extra bit of authority.
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Clearly too early on this bottle.... Came across as somewhat disjointed and understated. Big and weighty for Fourrier, with red and dark red fruit, cola, and a bit of dirt. Having said all of that, this was a very fine wine - beautiful structure and wonderful mouthfeel..... It just seems like it needs time.
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Not only abundant in rich red fruit and a whiff of spice and earth but this also has nice depth and texture. A bit more balanced than the 07 and 08s and a bit more acidity and brightness than the 02. Would love to have some to watch them evolve.
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A Clos St Jacques kind of night. (Elite Seafood Restaurant): Tasted blind. What a wine. The first thing you notice is how deep the flavor on the wine is, it's just layers and layers of palate coating goodness. There was this weight to the fruit that really lingered on the palate and there was just the right about of that spicy earth on the back end. I can only imagine how it'll be with cellar time but it's drinking great right now
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Borgogna: da vigne di 102 anni. Un naso che stordisce. Fossili marini, colatura di alici, gesso, salinità estrema. 2006 gran bell'annata. un vino speciale in ottima forma per un momento magico
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Wonderful dark fruits and very expressive terroir elements. A fine structure. Complex and layered. Earth and minerals. Really wonderful, but still young. Should reward proper patience, but man is this good already!
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Clos and Clos: The OC Does Les Clos and Clos St Jacques (Marche Moderne, Costa Mesa CA): My WOTN, poured as the last wine of the last flight, a fitting end for sure. Dark cherry, pure mineral and tannin in the finish, just great balance and acid. Really, it's hard to argue anything wrong with this wine as for me, it showed and displayed everything about pinot noir in a bottle that is so right. Tremendous, and just for me a hair better than the 01, which was tasted during the same dinner. Damn, Fourrier has got his game dialed in and I just fear the wines will get more and more expensive. Makes the GC VV seem still like the way to go, but I'll need to squirrel some bucks aside and find some of his CSJ stuff and lay it down. Bravo.
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From the first sip, this wine really punches into GC territory. It is focused. Almost extremely so. Bright red fruits, mid-weight palate, minerality, tight, long and linear finish. Strangely, with food (salmon) it seemed to lose it's fruit altogether and it appeared quite tannic. on it's own, the balance is impeccable. Could easily last another 10+ years.
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Burgs at Siggy's: Bright ruby red color. Smells extremely ripe and primary with mostly clean red fruit. Mid-weight on the palate with plenty of clean red fruit that at times seemed almost tart. Very tannic and drying at the finish but also very long. I'd say these are worth buying and cellaring; nothing not to like about this.
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Opened around 5:30 and drank around 8PM. Did not decant. This wine is very promising and drank quite well along side a 96 Rousseau CSJ but...but...but..its still very very young and a little more fruit fwd and much less nuanced at this point. Great classy material though that is in my wheelhouse. Save the other 2 btls for 2016+
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Slight seepage around crack in wax cap kind of freaked me out, and first taste out of bottle seemed ok but a bit harsher than I recall this wine and perhaps a bit flawed. But after an hour of air, this really resolved. Great classic Burg aromas. Magnificent balance. Mouthfilling fruit, together with intense minerality and punchy acidity. Very dry finish -- almost metalic aftertaste -- not unpleasant but noticeable and maybe sign of an odd bottle. Had with an entrecote and bearnaise, and it was just about the perfect wine for the food.
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This is a fantastic wine. Its just a 1er Cru for god sake and it totally kills competition. I had it against the best from this vintage and it is up there. Very clean and focused fruit, great length and its so beautiful with its sweet red berries. It cannot be many producers making 1er cru wines like this. I think I had some Amoureuses from Mugnier and maybe some Rousseau and Cathiard 1er cru´s that can compete. I am going to chase Fourrier from now on.
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Knightsbridge Burgundy Tasting: New Releases (Northbrook, IL): Wine tasting. Red and black cherry on nose with meaty spice. Same fruit comes through on palate, great density, great textures. Great spice comes through on finish. Incredibly clean and pure Gevrey flavors, this will certainly evolve into an exceptional wine, really showing CSJ at its essence.
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taste: powerful medium feel with big tannins and medium/high acidity backed up by deep tones of dark red fruits, earthen tones, dark berries, and some bits of dark spices as well
overall: Extremely young, but tons of promise. Great depth on both the nose and palate, this is a bit of a wild beast right now.
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Knightsbridge Burgundy Tasting (Knightsbridge Wine Shop (IL)): Wine 32--- Great complex nose. Little funk, beautiful sweet red fruit. Big and rich on the palate but not overweight. Plenty of acidity. Needs time but shows great potential. I dig this.
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Nose has an animal, meaty quality. Funky black cherry and herbal earth. Some roses and cigar box. Sweet and tart red currant and cherry upfront. Acidity and tannins are well balanced on the midpalate. It tightens up on the finish. Seems young.
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Lovely nose of black currant and hint of juniper. Bags of fruit and seems quite forward. For the medium term. Good acidity. Expected maturity: 2012+. Rating: 89-91
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At Howard Ripley. Cask sample. Dark, brooding fruit, closed and tannic, some reduction. Not showing well right now, but impossible to judge based on this and will undoubtedly prove its worth with time.
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12/9/2023 - melvinyeowq wrote: 92 Points
Top 1ers for AK's birthday: In the flight of the first four wines, there were 3 Vosnes and 1 Gevrey. Most felt that the Cathiard was the Gevrey but the minority (including myself) said that this had to be the Gevrey since it was the outlier stylistically. Slightly cloudy in appearance, especially compared to the three Vosnes that were brilliant ruby red in colour. Older style of Fourrier with more earthy and rustic notes before he transitioned to the high-toned, less dense style of today. Guessed ‘08 based on the colour and high acidity. Quite integrated and resolved but the fruit did become more expressive with air.
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9/17/2023 - Collector1855 wrote: 94 Points
Cloudy color.Deep nose with farmyard and soil elements. Good but a touch rustic like most 2006.
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9/16/2023 - palfr2 wrote:
Perplexing because it does not look clear and if I have any experience of soupy wine it is with 06s. Outshines a Roumier CM Village 06 on the night but that is no fair contest. From my recollection there was so much more delineation in the 07.
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6/11/2023 - fatboi Likes this wine: 93 Points
We opened this after a bottle of 13 mugneret ruchottes that needed more air and this really delivered. Was open at first pour. Lively nose and palate with tons of red fruit, slight spiced and good length. A very good wine. 2006's in general are drinking well now and this Fourrier confirmed that. with more air the 13 ruchottes did outshine it at the end.
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3/3/2023 - hprphf wrote: 93 Points
Next to 06 Griotte. Green, citrus, red-fruited, mineral, spice. Always a very consistent Fourrier vintage. 93-94
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3/3/2023 - KenK Likes this wine: 92 Points
Nice dark ripe red fruited with a serious structured frame. Great spices, just slightly over ripe and structured for my taste today. So 2006. Potential is clearly here.
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2/24/2023 - Paul D wrote: 93 Points
1/12, excellent cork.
Pale/medium garnet core, pale garnet rim. Aromatic with pure strawberry fruit wafting from the glass, florals then a hint of animal. Medium bodied, strawberry, flashes of dark cherry, meaty notes, spice, fine tannins, vibrant acids, very good length finish, faint tickle of tannin. Perhaps a touch of oxidation on the last glass, but excellent.
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12/13/2022 - Derek Darth Taster wrote: 93 Points
Asparagus Bday Celebration at ES BK. Drank in Grassl Cru.
Apearance is murky not clear, medium intensity, garnet colour. Legs.
Nose pronounced intensity, with aromas of dirty earth, scattered red cherries, sarsaparilla cola with more air. Developed.
On the palate, dry, medium acidity, medium alcohol (13.5%), resolved tannins, medium+ body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of soupy red cherries, spice all over the place, dirty savoury earth, decaying leaves, cola with more air. Medium+ finish.
Soupy and savoury are the main descriptors here. Complex. Might actually be an abnormally advanced off-bottle though. Tastes older than I expected. Nice but not really for longer keeping based on this.
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9/27/2022 - rocknroller wrote: 95 Points
Lonny Should Turn 65 More Often (The Kenwood, Mpls, MN): Medium dark red color. Drank a glass over 2 hours. See Chablis28's notes for his prep and excellent review. Drank this next to the '02 Jadot CSJ. There's more youth and density here in the Fourrier. This has a beautiful expression of fruit and spice with ripe berries and black cherry, intense savory spices with a cinnamon top note and splendid dried herbs. More medium full bodied with velveteen texture and great length. Outstanding.
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9/27/2022 - chablis28 wrote: 96 Points
Bought 3 of these a year or 2 after release. This btl comes along 11yrs after my first & much more fully realized at 16. This embraced the Furrier style of well fruited and richer Gevreys along with the added depth, concentration, intensity and wow factor expected from the CSJ site. Tonight's btl was a fun comparison alongside a lovely '02 Jadot CSJ and Lonny's '14 Dujac Chambolle-Musigny 1er Les Gruenchers. What a flight! I was very happy with its fruit purity and intensity. It also showed a bold spice box with cinnamon in the lead. Terrific forest floor notes underpin everything. Delighted to own one more that I'll likely open 2026+. Opened for 2 hours and slow-oxed in a Reidel Burg & btl before leaving to the Kenwood where I removed the coke again upon arrival. We started drinking it an hour later after some terrific champagne & still whites.
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9/25/2021 - fizz wrote:
Complex aromas of black fruits, earth, hoisin, spices, cherries. Seamless, medium weighted wine with lacy tannins and a long finish. Balanced, nuanced, complex. Mouth perfume is captivating. Drinking so well tonight.
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9/13/2021 - Rani Likes this wine: 93 Points
Tasted next to a Ponsot CdlR and it suffered a bit for it. Animal nose, with some secondary notes. Chewy, with sour dry cherries and good length. Excellent and surprisingly mature and ready.
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7/7/2021 - WKC Likes this wine: 93 Points
Wonderful aromatics of deep musk and cherries. Quite in your face this time and not as refined as I would like but it is a big wine.
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5/18/2021 - WKC Likes this wine: 94 Points
Excellent. Drank alongside Rousseau 98 and 06 CSJs and it held its own well. Opens up more after an hour and keeps going with big punchy aromas of wet grass, hoisin and smoked meat.
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1/14/2021 - hprphf wrote: 94 Points
Blue fruit, meaty, dark florals, brown sugar, creamy vanilla, grassy, green herbs, pungent, citrus, quite characteristic to the vintage. CSJ is what it is for a reason. Popping dimensions and electric energy. Encompassing layers with extra smoothness of the old vines. 94-95
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12/31/2020 - Russell Faulkner wrote:
Christmas spice on the nose, earthy and quite intense. Dark fruited, quite serious stuff, big avid frame keeps everything very tight, this is super concentrated and a little unforgiving but it’s begging to show what it’s got.
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6/22/2020 - schan109 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Bottle breathe for 1 hour before serving. Similar note to another bottle opened in Jan 2020. The nose is rich with raspberry. The palate is smooth, full body with jam-like red fruit. Tannin is integrated and matured. Long finishing. Peak 2.5 hours but continued to be enjoyable for another hour or two.
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2/18/2020 - La Grappe wrote: 90 Points
Rather a brown colour; the nose is perfumed, the palate fairly rich with fully mature fruit and some vegetal flavours. It has lost its youthful vigour and is tasting mature, yet it is also a little austere with some lingering tannin. Perhaps it will improve further over the next few years.
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2/8/2020 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
Acker Merrall Bicentennial Gala (Cipriani Wall Street - New York NY): Late night, small glass, brief note. Dense, meaty, great concentration. Still somewhat backward and fleshy, this has so much great stuff, but needs more time.
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1/2/2020 - schan109 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Chill at Niseko 2020 New Year (Niseko, Hokkiado, Japan): Opened at 4pm, and started drinking at 8pm. The nose is more reserved, and a bit oak with red fruit aroma. The palate is somehow full body, strong (among the 4) with jammy fruit, chewy cherry fruit. Very powerful and long finishing.
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12/23/2019 - Jammy Wine wrote: 88 Points
The 2006 Fourrier Clos Saint Jacques is stylistically more old school than the 2011 Fourrier Clos Saint Jacques next to it. Tasted blind – A rich and ripe array of dark berries, deep spices, hints of dried prunes and meaty note. Ultra-ripe fruits with fair acidity. Gevrey Chambertin 1er Cru? 2005? (88/100)
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12/11/2019 - Rani Likes this wine: 93 Points
Nose of fresh strawberries, eucalyptus and wet leaves. Candied maraschino cherries and fine tannins on the palate, lots of acidity. Structured and long. I’d wait a few more years if I had one...
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12/1/2019 - robferguson1 wrote: 90 Points
Ok but didn’t knock my socks like u expect of a st Jacques .
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11/13/2019 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points
Clos St Jacques Dinner (Gunther's, Purivs Street, Singapore): Really nice. The nose was a bit different from the other wines, with a bit of sweet oak framing nice, fragrant aromas of red fruit, hawthorne, earth and spice. The palate was probably the tightest of the lot, with fine firm tannins and bright acidity giving a bit of a chew to otherwise fairly intense notes of dark cherries, earth and spice. Great long finish too. Full, powerful and compelling, but this needs time yet. It was blushing and delicious on first pour, but shut down slightly after half an hour in the glass, with a firm structure coming to the fore.
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8/25/2019 - fizz wrote:
Dinner with John and Kat (St Claudes): Decanted 2 hours. The nose was vivid - deep, forest, earthy notes with black fruits. The palate is seamless, medium weighted and has good length. There’s some spice here, with a mix of dried herbs too. Very good showing.
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6/5/2019 - robferguson1 wrote: 92 Points
Excellent, deep colour, has some bricking and a touch on the nose as well. It velvety and long
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4/6/2019 - hprphf wrote: 93 Points
Acker April Auction 2019 (sad day) (Marea): From Magnum. So sexy and appealing, spicy, juicy, good minerals, backward finish and clean. Great for this vintage, but declined quickly. 93
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12/15/2018 - Burgundy Al wrote:
Wines Tasted at HDH Auction; 12/13/2018-12/15/2018 (Spiaggia - Chicago IL): Small glass, brief note. Lots of ripe black cherry and plum with roasted meat and slightly sweet spice. Very good concentration bodes well for its longevity, I just think it is still fairly unevolved and less complex than it can/ will be. I will cellar my bottles for a few more years, but think there is 92-93 point potential here.
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12/15/2018 - collin wrote:
Double decanted for a few hours. A gorgeous texture, but not the delineation I want in a Burgundy. The length exhibited makes me hopeful this will hit all the promised notes- but it's not there quite yet. Maybe 5 years more?
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12/15/2018 - salil wrote: 93 Points
HDH Dec auction trip/dinners at SKY and RPM Italian; 12/13/2018-12/15/2018: An impressive wine - it's packed with ripe red and black fruit, with more flamboyant herbal, spicy, and floral scents emerging around the fruit. It doesn't have the lower-toned earthy notes that I typically expect from Gevrey, but it's delicious all the same and very easy to drink now with fine grained tannin and bright acids making it very accessible now.
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12/15/2018 - acyso wrote: 93 Points
HDH December auction; 12/13/2018-12/15/2018 (Chicago, IL): There's something about Fourrier that always strikes me as stemmy, even though there are no stems. Lovely black fruit, with a nice sweet ripeness and black fruit. Good density on the palate, but I don't pick up enough of the earthiness that I would expect from the village.
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10/5/2018 - Redrunners Likes this wine: 92 Points
Had this at the Charleston off-line for Burgundy night.
This was part of the second Burgundy flight of the night, served along side the 1999 Lucien Le Moine Corton-Clos du Roi and '05 Groffier Bonnes Mares.
All of the wines were close to a pop and pour, so they were tasted slowly to allow some time to evolve in the glass.
This was the lightest of the three red burgundies. This one also started out on the tart side, but developed with time in the glass, but not as much as the Corton. Crisp clean flavors of tart cherry, spice and earth.
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9/28/2018 - La Grappe wrote: 93 Points
Quite a deep colour, garnet tending towards brown; the fruit is intense, with a slightly cooked, even burnt, character; savoury, profound and long on the finish. An excellent wine, now mature but still with vigour.
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9/27/2018 - retired_and_roving Likes this wine: 93 Points
Charleston Offlineorama IV; 9/27/2018-10/1/2018 (Charleston, NC (various locations)): 3rd flight served at Burg Thurs dinner - alongside '99 Lucien Le Moine Clos du Roi and '05 Groffier Bonnes Mare. Paired with Tea smoked Duck, Charleston Grits, poultry glaze and plum paste. My second favorite of the flight. The Fourrier had a pretty nose, slightly more floral and spice with red berries. On the palate this was more concentrated the the Le Moine, but slightly less elegant. The red cherry fruit was complemented by some spices (perhaps a hint of cinnamon) and lots of earthy goodness. Really enjoyed tasting this with duck and plum paste - just popped in the mouth with this combination.
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9/27/2018 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine: 92 Points
Charleston IV - Return of the Collectible; 9/27/2018-9/30/2018 (Charleston, SC (various locations)): My favorite of the line-up upon first trying through them. This is the wine that came across as most elegant in nature. Lighter. A bit less barnyard, a bit more pristine fruit. Interesting because through the course of the evening as it opened up the barnyard came through and the Corton became a bit crisper. It's an elegant wine and enjoyable.
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8/11/2018 - dcwino wrote: 93 Points
Ken served five wines blind and told us that they are from the same vintage and vineyard. Very youthful but not terribly complex nose displaying concentrated black fruit, dark spices and earth. Excellent concentration, layers upon layers of black fruit, medium acidity, earthy mineral and a medium to long black fruit driven finish. Once Ken points out the vineyard, I guess Fourrier. I typically find the Fourrier CSJ more hedonistic and concentrated but not as complex and refined as the Rousseau version. In 2006, I much prefer the Rousseau and, surprisingly, the Esmonin version.
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12/10/2017 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 93 Points
Dinner with Jean Marie in HK- This wine has blossomed since my previous experience in late 2015. Nose has spice, flowers, sweet red fruit, and perfume. The palate has some alluring sweet red fruit with good minerality. Not a blockbuster wine but its very elegant and expressive. It is drinking beautifully now. 93+
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11/14/2017 - Burgundy Al wrote: flawed
Fourrier Dinner with Friends (Formento’s): Slightly corked.
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3/25/2017 - fatboi Likes this wine: 92 Points
One of 6 2006's enjoyed over the course of 2 days-
La tache, Chambertin and close de Beze from Rousseau, CSJ from rousseau and fourrier and 2006 Bonnes mares from roumier- We had the CSJ's side by side at lunch.
The Fourrier took a bit longer to show. It was the burlier wine in comparison to the rousseau. Rougher not as elegant. a more tannic wine that was darker in color. As time passed became more ope. Showed red berries, meat but not as much earth. I preferred the rousseau while Ian like this better.
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3/16/2017 - liber Likes this wine: 93 Points
Chez Flint Gevrey dinner, youthful, deepish coloured; attractive nose, rich red fruit driven, some meat and spice; fullish, decent length, persistence and grip, nice sweet core to fruit, slightly burly v finer but less attractive Rousseau. F+ (18).
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12/30/2016 - clayfu wrote:
brooding deep dark wine. Tannic and structured, fruit still a bit shy but nose is extra pretty.
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12/30/2016 - FYC wrote:
Much darker and more burly than the 08. More fruit and more tannins. A bit of reduction which blows off after a while. Not closing up but could use quite a bit more time. Seems like it will age longer than the 08.
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12/20/2016 - Burgundy Al wrote:
Dom Perignon Dinner (Cherry Circle Room - Chicago IL): Fun bonus wine tonight. All black fruit aromas with great spice and meaty notes. Black and red cherry flavors, starting off with less intensity than what comes across aromatically, then slightly hollow/closed in the middle. Fruit nicely re-emerges on finish. 94 point nose, 90 point palate today, but I expect more 2020 forward, and will hold my bottles until then or later.
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6/14/2016 - La Grappe Likes this wine: 93 Points
Fairly deep colour, some brick; fresh strawberry/raspberry/redcurrant fruit, lively and energetic, full and long. Excellent wine, approachable now but with a long life ahead.
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3/24/2016 - fatboi Likes this wine: 92 Points
a beautiful nose that jumped out of the bottle. violets, berries and a nice light red hue. found the wine to be restrained on the palate. Not as accessible and giving as other premier cru Fourrier's.
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2/7/2016 - galenico wrote: 91 Points
VERTICALE CSJ FOURRIER VS. ROUSSEAU: Molto rotondo, maturo e autunnale. La terra di Gevrey, il catrame e i marron glacées. Frutto maturo foderante e bassa acidità. Ha un tannino granulare molto meno fine rispetto ai migliori della batteria e una terziarizzazione già avanzata. In confronto al 2005 sembra un vino con 10 anni di più. Buono e composto,ma forse bottiglia non al 100%....
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12/21/2015 - Pacalet Likes this wine: 91 Points
Light to medium red in color, very aromatic red fruit nose with dried meat, spices and red flowers. Certainly a lighter vintage with an awesome nose but sub par palate intensity and depth. Also not so good price to performance ratio vs launch price.
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12/16/2015 - Burgnick wrote: 90 Points
This is very restrained now. It had purple flower, black fruit, spice and dried meat. Palate was tight in which the fruit was not showing particularly well. This wine will take a few years to show its best.
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8/6/2015 - La Grappe wrote: 91 Points
Fairly deep colour, still quite youthful looking; quite an evolved nose with both fruit and vegetal elements, and a hint of cabbage; secondary flavours are starting to develop on the palate also, which has persistence and length. There is still some tannin on the finsh. Approachable now but should still develop further.
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4/27/2015 - dansamsoe Likes this wine:
This is quite restrained right now. Not tannic but very muted especially on the palate. The nose is quite good with dark cherry and earthy tones but is holding back. The palate is even more restrained. It needs at least 5 years to unfold.
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2/21/2015 - Sycamore wrote:
Almost extraordinarily underwhelming right now. Excellent aromatics -- very earthy. Palate is where it falters. Doesn't know what it wants to be -- now or when it grows up. Drinks, frankly, like a $40 bottle. Do the aromatics bump it up to market? No. Try again 3+ years out and hope for better......
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12/2/2014 - Neddington Likes this wine:
Great burg that had notes of Cali on nose and taste but real burg on the finish
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9/5/2014 - La Grappe wrote: 91 Points
Quite a deep, dark colour; fresh, ripe, black cherry nose; dark fruits on the palate, which is soft, with good weight and a very slight spritz (which I am not too keen on). This is tasting fairly mature, but there is still a little tannin on the finish and I think it will keep well. Overall, a fine example.
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7/31/2014 - Rupert wrote: 94 Points
NadNash dinners: Bright, vivacious, red fruited. The flavour profile is essentially the same as the villages, but it just has that extra bit of authority.
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4/30/2014 - bpj87 wrote:
Orange rind and cranberries and just uniquely Fourrier. Sexy.
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4/26/2014 - ovenmitt wrote: 92 Points
Clearly too early on this bottle.... Came across as somewhat disjointed and understated. Big and weighty for Fourrier, with red and dark red fruit, cola, and a bit of dirt. Having said all of that, this was a very fine wine - beautiful structure and wonderful mouthfeel..... It just seems like it needs time.
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4/21/2014 - FYC wrote:
Same as previous. Approachable with ample fruit, earth, spice. Nice weight. Would love to see this age a bit more.
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6/8/2013 - FYC wrote:
Not only abundant in rich red fruit and a whiff of spice and earth but this also has nice depth and texture. A bit more balanced than the 07 and 08s and a bit more acidity and brightness than the 02. Would love to have some to watch them evolve.
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6/8/2013 - clayfu wrote:
A Clos St Jacques kind of night. (Elite Seafood Restaurant): Tasted blind.
What a wine. The first thing you notice is how deep the flavor on the wine is, it's just layers and layers of palate coating goodness. There was this weight to the fruit that really lingered on the palate and there was just the right about of that spicy earth on the back end. I can only imagine how it'll be with cellar time but it's drinking great right now
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2/23/2013 - steinersing Likes this wine: 95 Points
Fresh, open, Pinot fruit, long and refined. Wonderful 2006. Showed better than the 1999, more sophisticated.
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10/9/2012 - paolonardi wrote: 93 Points
Borgogna: da vigne di 102 anni. Un naso che stordisce. Fossili marini, colatura di alici, gesso, salinità estrema. 2006 gran bell'annata. un vino speciale in ottima forma per un momento magico
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5/15/2012 - Rupert wrote:
Fourrier dinner with Jean-Marie (Pétrus, Knightsbridge, London): A bit sweaty and reduced, more compact and lacking the exuberance and charm of the 07
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2/9/2012 - VHJV wrote: 94 Points
Wonderful dark fruits and very expressive terroir elements. A fine structure. Complex and layered. Earth and minerals. Really wonderful, but still young. Should reward proper patience, but man is this good already!
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1/28/2012 - Frank Murray III wrote:
Clos and Clos: The OC Does Les Clos and Clos St Jacques (Marche Moderne, Costa Mesa CA): My WOTN, poured as the last wine of the last flight, a fitting end for sure. Dark cherry, pure mineral and tannin in the finish, just great balance and acid. Really, it's hard to argue anything wrong with this wine as for me, it showed and displayed everything about pinot noir in a bottle that is so right. Tremendous, and just for me a hair better than the 01, which was tasted during the same dinner. Damn, Fourrier has got his game dialed in and I just fear the wines will get more and more expensive. Makes the GC VV seem still like the way to go, but I'll need to squirrel some bucks aside and find some of his CSJ stuff and lay it down. Bravo.
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12/5/2011 - Rupert wrote: 95 Points
Gorgeous blackberry fragrance, a touch of liquorice, hints of earth fresh, mouthfilling, silky. Thrilling
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10/4/2011 - fizz Likes this wine: 92 Points
From the first sip, this wine really punches into GC territory. It is focused. Almost extremely so. Bright red fruits, mid-weight palate, minerality, tight, long and linear finish. Strangely, with food (salmon) it seemed to lose it's fruit altogether and it appeared quite tannic. on it's own, the balance is impeccable. Could easily last another 10+ years.
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9/24/2011 - rnellans wrote: 91 Points
Beautiful floral perfume with hint of herbs. Spice. Sexy...a rather delicate wine.
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6/8/2011 - Dave Dalluge wrote: 92 Points
Burgs at Siggy's: Bright ruby red color. Smells extremely ripe and primary with mostly clean red fruit. Mid-weight on the palate with plenty of clean red fruit that at times seemed almost tart. Very tannic and drying at the finish but also very long. I'd say these are worth buying and cellaring; nothing not to like about this.
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6/7/2011 - chablis28 wrote: 92 Points
Opened around 5:30 and drank around 8PM. Did not decant. This wine is very promising and drank quite well along side a 96 Rousseau CSJ but...but...but..its still very very young and a little more fruit fwd and much less nuanced at this point. Great classy material though that is in my wheelhouse. Save the other 2 btls for 2016+
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4/20/2011 - Khamaj wrote: 91 Points
Slight seepage around crack in wax cap kind of freaked me out, and first taste out of bottle seemed ok but a bit harsher than I recall this wine and perhaps a bit flawed. But after an hour of air, this really resolved. Great classic Burg aromas. Magnificent balance. Mouthfilling fruit, together with intense minerality and punchy acidity. Very dry finish -- almost metalic aftertaste -- not unpleasant but noticeable and maybe sign of an odd bottle. Had with an entrecote and bearnaise, and it was just about the perfect wine for the food.
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3/30/2011 - St Paul wrote: 95 Points
This is a fantastic wine. Its just a 1er Cru for god sake and it totally kills competition. I had it against the best from this vintage and it is up there. Very clean and focused fruit, great length and its so beautiful with its sweet red berries. It cannot be many producers making 1er cru wines like this. I think I had some Amoureuses from Mugnier and maybe some Rousseau and Cathiard 1er cru´s that can compete. I am going to chase Fourrier from now on.
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1/21/2010 - Rupert wrote: 93 Points
Fourrier Clos St Jacques at The Ledbury (The Ledbury, London): Tighter than the 07, but more substance, black fruited too, licquorice, noticeably oaky - superb, of course
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1/21/2010 - SimonG wrote:
Rupert's Fourrier Clos St Jacques Offline (The Ledbury, London): A little more restrained. Quite minerally with the fruit. Shows well, ever so slightly dry on the finish. Holds up very well through the evening. This is good. ***(*)
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12/26/2009 - Rupert wrote: 93 Points
The prickle soon dissipated, lush, velvet textured, violets, liquorice and earth fruit, layered - utterly wonderful
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11/15/2009 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
Knightsbridge Burgundy Tasting: New Releases (Northbrook, IL): Wine tasting. Red and black cherry on nose with meaty spice. Same fruit comes through on palate, great density, great textures. Great spice comes through on finish. Incredibly clean and pure Gevrey flavors, this will certainly evolve into an exceptional wine, really showing CSJ at its essence.
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11/15/2009 - KeithAkers wrote: 92 Points
Knightsbridge's New Release Burgundy Tasting (Knightsbridge, Northbrook IL): nose: powerful and deep nose of dark red fruits, dark red cherries, earth tones, and a good amount of dark red berries
taste: powerful medium feel with big tannins and medium/high acidity backed up by deep tones of dark red fruits, earthen tones, dark berries, and some bits of dark spices as well
overall: Extremely young, but tons of promise. Great depth on both the nose and palate, this is a bit of a wild beast right now.
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11/15/2009 - wilmette vino wrote:
a complete wine with nice features, fragrant, nice body and balance, but not special enough to justify the price.
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11/15/2009 - milwaukeewino wrote:
Knightsbridge Burgundy Tasting (Knightsbridge Wine Shop (IL)): Wine 32---
Great complex nose. Little funk, beautiful sweet red fruit.
Big and rich on the palate but not overweight. Plenty of acidity.
Needs time but shows great potential.
I dig this.
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11/15/2009 - Beavis77 wrote:
Nose has an animal, meaty quality. Funky black cherry and herbal earth. Some roses and cigar box.
Sweet and tart red currant and cherry upfront. Acidity and tannins are well balanced on the midpalate. It tightens up on the finish. Seems young.
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11/15/2009 - psmith wrote:
Toned-down spice. Dark fruits. Round, with nice body and weight. Firm finish. Very nice wine.
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9/16/2009 - beezer6 wrote: 96 Points
N. Rosenthal Wine Merchant Old World Trade Tasting (Elysian Hotel - Chicago, IL): Red WOTD. Astounding Burg with refined super grip on the back end.
Super terroir driven showing the essence of this Premier Cru.
Enormous spicy mullberries, cranberries and barnyard straw.
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10/22/2008 - DAN BAILEY wrote:
Lots of pine sap with some nail varnish on the nose. Hard to read how this will evolve but didnt move me greatly tonight.
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10/21/2008 - Rupert wrote:
Burghound comes to London (One Great George Street): Ripe red fruits, malty, very fresh and enticing, tannin present but not obtrusive - very approachable now [93]
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1/9/2008 - nskelsey wrote: 90 Points
Lovely nose of black currant and hint of juniper. Bags of fruit and seems quite forward. For the medium term. Good acidity. Expected maturity: 2012+. Rating: 89-91
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1/7/2008 - Paul D wrote:
At Howard Ripley. Cask sample. Dark, brooding fruit, closed and tannic, some reduction. Not showing well right now, but impossible to judge based on this and will undoubtedly prove its worth with time.
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