Filippo's Fourrier Dinner (La Trompette, Chiswick): Pale/med garnet, wide pale mahogany rim. Pure red fruits, florals, quite youthful. Pretty. Medium bodied with pure red cherry fruit on the palate, touch of savour. Attractive if not overly complex ***1/2
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Jaggerfest 2017 (Harwood Arms, London): Quite gassy. Fresh, bright red fruit. some zip, but this is in the long distance runner, lean and slightly lean mould. Lacks a little joie de vivre. It is pretty, but it's flirting with being insubstantial and a tiny bit shrill. Again, I think this is suffering slightly for lack of a proper glass and space to express itself. ***1/2
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Cellared since release. Dark, animal fruit in nose and mouth, still some acidity to be resolved. Velvet texture. Nervy. A good example of 2001 that will probably improve for some years.
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Some things in life you know with certainty you will love; a film by the Coen brothers, a book by Neal Stephenson, a proper suet pudding with custard. I have never opened a bottle of Fourrier I didn't like.......until now. It's like an old friend struck down in her prime. Decayed and faded, leaving an alcohol tang to the finish. I keep going back to it because I can't believe it, but it's not getting any better.
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Nice wine but I do not think will improve and suggest to drink up. It has lost fruit since my last bottle and the acidity is increasing. Currently drinking well but on the lean side due to acid and tannins and diminished fruit.
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Wines with Larry, Huw and Paul in Martinborough: A good clean, garnet colour. An absolutely gorgeous, pure nose of red fruits, minerals and chalk (that with hindsight should have taken me to Fourrier, but did not). On the palate, however the Gevrey character was very obvious. In the mouth the wine was very clean and elegant, an excellent wine but not with quite the fruit weight or finish to be Grand Cru level. Tasters were picking this wine as a Rousseau 1er. Larry prematurely called this his WoTD (before the Rousseau was poured). Nonetheless, an excellent wine with years ahead of it. I did not guess this as Fourrier but, with hindsight, it had everything you look for in that label: purity, gorgeous red berry fruit, minerality and chalkiness. Very impressive.
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Medium-red. Textbook aromatics for Fourrier Cherbaudes, with earthiness the primary component. Falls off a bit on the palate. Somewhat off-balance, with acidity being most prominent. Tart in a mostly-pleasing way. Hard to call the future, but inclined to think that waiting to try again in 2016 or so is the best course.
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First Dinner in Burgundy (Bistro de l'Hotel - Beaune): Open approx one hour before serving. Refined black fruit aromas, subtle and just starting to show some evolution. Elegant and refined flavors with lots of acidity and fine tannins. Flavors stayed consistent with more time in glass but finish got longer. This should drink well to 2020.
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Cork half soaked but in pretty good shape. Pale/medium garnet core, wide pale garnet rim with just a hint of mahogany. Nose shows pure red and black cherries, hints of smoke, soil and miineral, floral top note. Palate is medium bodied with attractive pure red and black berry fruit, notes of soil and mineral, fresh acidity, some slightly dusty tannins on a very good length, tangy finish. Lovely.
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Fantastic wine, nose with mocha , black and red round fruit, spices, mushrooms and intriguing. Round tannins, great feel and good length. Great balance.
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Earthy nose, leather, mushroom, some red fruit. Taste sweet with earthyness, midpalate minerals with earthy tones ending with nice round tannins with long finish. Lovely Gevrey terroir kind of wine.
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Good cork. Pale/medium garnet core, wide pale garnet rim. Nose is quite developed, now more earthy and minerally than anything, though the red and black cherry fruit is also still there. The fruit is more to the fore on the initial attack, then notes of smoke, mineral and earth come through on the good length finish. The tannins are still a touch firm on the tail end and may never fully harmonise. Lovely though.
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Light garnet colour. Nose offers up ripe strawberry, cherry, spice, leather, undergrowth. Lovely balance of fruit, mineral acidity and fine tannins. Longish finish.
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The cork is good, if very hard to extract, and there is no sign of the spritz in the previous bottle. It's refreshingly and deliciously juicy. Quite light in body, but precise and moreish. À point, I would say. vg+
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Not decanted. Nice nose of red fruit and fat. Some spritz which is slow to blow off and is distracting. Medium weight, very savoury, more meat and earth than fruit, good acidity, becoming quite intense with air, with a long finish supported by ripe tannins. vg+
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No problem with cork. Pale/medium garnet, wide pale garnet rim. Nose is quite meaty, with pork fat, some game, underlying red cherry fruit, floral notes. No more than medium bodied on the palate, much more fruity than the nose with strawberries, red cherry, linear, pure and precise with fresh acidity and a good length slightly firm, savoury finish. Still in need of time on this showing.
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Not decanted. Healthy cork. Very slightly smoky nose, sweet red fruit, cherries and strawberries, hint of mineral and earth but really quite youthful. Medium bodied, linear and fresh, not a lot of richness but good depth and lovely purity, strawberry, red cherry, fine still slightly firm tannins, notable on good length finish. In good shape, on the evidence of this a couple of years will do this some good.
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Decanted 1/2 an hour. Pale garnet, wide browning rim. Light intensity slightly diffuse nose. Some attractive red cherry and strawberrry fruit and developed notes of meat fat but overall lacking in intensity and focus. Similar on palate with relatively developed flavours and a shortish and quite firm finish. Drinkable but something not right here - NR.
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Very like the '2000, but with everything cranked up a bit higher - pricklier, deeper, even more cola, earthy, fresh and fizzing with energy, very exciting
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Decanted 1/2 an hour. Medium ruby/garnet core, wide pale garnet rim. Open nose with good intensity showing pure black and red cherry fruit, some plum - quite dark-fruited. Fragrant, slightly creamy and with some hints of rich earth beginning to emerge. Medium bodied on the palate with black cherry and some red berry fruit, good depth and length on the mid-palate, fresh acidity, some savoury earth and iron notes of a good length finish with some slightly firm tannins still showing at the tail end. Very drinkable now, think this will improve with another year or two.
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popped and poured. lovely nose with black cherries, iron, earth and mushrooms. The earthiness is more apparent on the palate- rustic flavor profile on an elegant frame. Nice energy and well balanced. Nice wine.
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Situated next to Chapelle. Decanted for an hour as it had a bit of spritz. Less floral and more animal and muscular than the Lavaux wines. Medium concentration, quite big tannins with just enough underlying black fruit.
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A bit of spritz, even after an hour in the decanter, denser and less fragrant than the other Fourriers we've had recently; this had more conventional, plum and black cherry fruit, some length - this will probably improve
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11/21/2019 - hprphf wrote: 91 Points
Acker 2019/11 (Valcluse): Light touch, short finish. 91
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12/17/2018 - Paul D wrote:
Filippo's Fourrier Dinner (La Trompette, Chiswick): Pale/med garnet, wide pale mahogany rim. Pure red fruits, florals, quite youthful. Pretty. Medium bodied with pure red cherry fruit on the palate, touch of savour. Attractive if not overly complex ***1/2
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5/22/2018 - robferguson1 wrote: 92 Points
Dark with brown rim and deep, a bit tart to start but mellowed and dug into my palate, a great wine .
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6/27/2017 - Rupert wrote:
Jaggerfest 2017 (Harwood Arms, Fulham, London): So much sap, fresh, lean, cherry fruit, long too - my favourite of this trio of burgundies
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6/27/2017 - SimonG wrote: 90 Points
Jaggerfest 2017 (Harwood Arms, London): Quite gassy. Fresh, bright red fruit. some zip, but this is in the long distance runner, lean and slightly lean mould. Lacks a little joie de vivre. It is pretty, but it's flirting with being insubstantial and a tiny bit shrill. Again, I think this is suffering slightly for lack of a proper glass and space to express itself. ***1/2
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1/10/2016 - western wrote: flawed
Corked.
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8/10/2015 - cfk49 wrote: 91 Points
Cellared since release. Dark, animal fruit in nose and mouth, still some acidity to be resolved. Velvet texture. Nervy. A good example of 2001 that will probably improve for some years.
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6/5/2015 - Jeff W wrote:
Some things in life you know with certainty you will love; a film by the Coen brothers, a book by Neal Stephenson, a proper suet pudding with custard. I have never opened a bottle of Fourrier I didn't like.......until now.
It's like an old friend struck down in her prime. Decayed and faded, leaving an alcohol tang to the finish. I keep going back to it because I can't believe it, but it's not getting any better.
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12/8/2014 - western Likes this wine: 90 Points
Nice wine but I do not think will improve and suggest to drink up. It has lost fruit since my last bottle and the acidity is increasing. Currently drinking well but on the lean side due to acid and tannins and diminished fruit.
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9/1/2014 - HowardNZ Likes this wine:
Wines with Larry, Huw and Paul in Martinborough: A good clean, garnet colour. An absolutely gorgeous, pure nose of red fruits, minerals and chalk (that with hindsight should have taken me to Fourrier, but did not). On the palate, however the Gevrey character was very obvious. In the mouth the wine was very clean and elegant, an excellent wine but not with quite the fruit weight or finish to be Grand Cru level. Tasters were picking this wine as a Rousseau 1er. Larry prematurely called this his WoTD (before the Rousseau was poured). Nonetheless, an excellent wine with years ahead of it. I did not guess this as Fourrier but, with hindsight, it had everything you look for in that label: purity, gorgeous red berry fruit, minerality and chalkiness. Very impressive.
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5/9/2014 - Sycamore wrote:
Medium-red. Textbook aromatics for Fourrier Cherbaudes, with earthiness the primary component. Falls off a bit on the palate. Somewhat off-balance, with acidity being most prominent. Tart in a mostly-pleasing way. Hard to call the future, but inclined to think that waiting to try again in 2016 or so is the best course.
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6/27/2013 - Burgundy Al wrote: 90 Points
First Dinner in Burgundy (Bistro de l'Hotel - Beaune): Open approx one hour before serving. Refined black fruit aromas, subtle and just starting to show some evolution. Elegant and refined flavors with lots of acidity and fine tannins. Flavors stayed consistent with more time in glass but finish got longer. This should drink well to 2020.
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3/17/2013 - Paul D wrote: 91 Points
Cork half soaked but in pretty good shape. Pale/medium garnet core, wide pale garnet rim with just a hint of mahogany. Nose shows pure red and black cherries, hints of smoke, soil and miineral, floral top note. Palate is medium bodied with attractive pure red and black berry fruit, notes of soil and mineral, fresh acidity, some slightly dusty tannins on a very good length, tangy finish. Lovely.
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11/12/2011 - gvdb wrote: 92 Points
Fantastic wine, nose with mocha , black and red round fruit, spices, mushrooms and intriguing. Round tannins, great feel and good length. Great balance.
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10/29/2011 - Burgaddict wrote: 91 Points
Earthy nose, leather, mushroom, some red fruit. Taste sweet with earthyness, midpalate minerals with earthy tones ending with nice round tannins with long finish. Lovely Gevrey terroir kind of wine.
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10/19/2011 - Paul D wrote: 90 Points
Good cork. Pale/medium garnet core, wide pale garnet rim. Nose is quite developed, now more earthy and minerally than anything, though the red and black cherry fruit is also still there. The fruit is more to the fore on the initial attack, then notes of smoke, mineral and earth come through on the good length finish. The tannins are still a touch firm on the tail end and may never fully harmonise. Lovely though.
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8/14/2011 - western wrote: 90 Points
Light garnet colour. Nose offers up ripe strawberry, cherry, spice, leather, undergrowth. Lovely balance of fruit, mineral acidity and fine tannins. Longish finish.
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12/30/2010 - Jeff W wrote:
The cork is good, if very hard to extract, and there is no sign of the spritz in the previous bottle. It's refreshingly and deliciously juicy. Quite light in body, but precise and moreish. À point, I would say. vg+
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10/5/2010 - Jeff W wrote:
Not decanted. Nice nose of red fruit and fat. Some spritz which is slow to blow off and is distracting. Medium weight, very savoury, more meat and earth than fruit, good acidity, becoming quite intense with air, with a long finish supported by ripe tannins. vg+
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7/23/2010 - Paul D wrote: 90 Points
No problem with cork. Pale/medium garnet, wide pale garnet rim. Nose is quite meaty, with pork fat, some game, underlying red cherry fruit, floral notes. No more than medium bodied on the palate, much more fruity than the nose with strawberries, red cherry, linear, pure and precise with fresh acidity and a good length slightly firm, savoury finish. Still in need of time on this showing.
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2/24/2010 - Paul D wrote: 90 Points
Not decanted. Healthy cork. Very slightly smoky nose, sweet red fruit, cherries and strawberries, hint of mineral and earth but really quite youthful. Medium bodied, linear and fresh, not a lot of richness but good depth and lovely purity, strawberry, red cherry, fine still slightly firm tannins, notable on good length finish. In good shape, on the evidence of this a couple of years will do this some good.
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11/22/2009 - Paul D wrote:
Decanted 1/2 an hour. Pale garnet, wide browning rim. Light intensity slightly diffuse nose. Some attractive red cherry and strawberrry fruit and developed notes of meat fat but overall lacking in intensity and focus. Similar on palate with relatively developed flavours and a shortish and quite firm finish. Drinkable but something not right here - NR.
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10/11/2009 - Rupert wrote: 91 Points
Very like the '2000, but with everything cranked up a bit higher - pricklier, deeper, even more cola, earthy, fresh and fizzing with energy, very exciting
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2/7/2009 - carlwhat wrote:
dense, but balanced. beautiful sweet dark fruit. nose just overwhelmed the table.... mind boggling that i do not have more of these...
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1/23/2009 - Paul D wrote: 90 Points
Decanted 1/2 an hour. Medium ruby/garnet core, wide pale garnet rim. Open nose with good intensity showing pure black and red cherry fruit, some plum - quite dark-fruited. Fragrant, slightly creamy and with some hints of rich earth beginning to emerge. Medium bodied on the palate with black cherry and some red berry fruit, good depth and length on the mid-palate, fresh acidity, some savoury earth and iron notes of a good length finish with some slightly firm tannins still showing at the tail end. Very drinkable now, think this will improve with another year or two.
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12/7/2007 - winenutnyc wrote:
popped and poured. lovely nose with black cherries, iron, earth and mushrooms. The earthiness is more apparent on the palate- rustic flavor profile on an elegant frame. Nice energy and well balanced. Nice wine.
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11/8/2007 - Rupert wrote: 88 Points
The fragrance on decanting disappeared rather, leaving a coca-cola palate, light, then it began to sing a bit, but quietly
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2/24/2007 - mike wrote: 90 Points
Situated next to Chapelle. Decanted for an hour as it had a bit of spritz. Less floral and more animal and muscular than the Lavaux wines. Medium concentration, quite big tannins with just enough underlying black fruit.
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11/13/2005 - Rupert wrote: 88 Points
A bit of spritz, even after an hour in the decanter, denser and less fragrant than the other Fourriers we've had recently; this had more conventional, plum and black cherry fruit, some length - this will probably improve
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