2010 Faiveley Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Clos des Issarts

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 90.6 points

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  7/29/2022 - Derek Darth Taster Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Belated birthday dinner at Wimborne. Drank in Grassl Cru.
  Appearance is clear, pale intensity, ruby colour. Legs.
  Nose medium+ intensity, with aromas of slight barnyard funk. animal leather, iron earth, dark red cherries, red spice. Developing.
  On the palate, dry, high acidity, medium alcohol (13.5%), fine lick of medium tannins, medium body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of licorice coated dark red cherries, leather, iron earth, well integrated oak spice, deep soil undertones with hints of sous bois. Long savoury finish with more of that sous bois emerging.
  Very good quality. Drinking in the zone for me. Glides smoothly on the mid-palate and then ends with a masculine Gevrey oomph.

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  6/1/2022 - Hubble Shire Farm Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Lovely premier cru for the money! Medium bodied, picks up weight with aeration, aromas of barn yard, soil, mushroom and spice. The tannins are well integrated, almost velvety at this juncture, the wine is in a fine drinking window. Just what one would expect from a premier cru of a fine vintage. For all the less than complimentary reviews below, I would just say such folks don't enjoy red burg!!

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  11/2/2021 - Mr Squiggles wrote: 89 Points

  A rusty red hue and lovely florals on the nose. Some ripe (but not sweet) cherries on the palate, some autumnal leaves and a fleeting aftertaste of gunsmoke.
  
  A very good wine, more than respectable, but lacked the Wow! factor to rate it Excellent.

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  4/22/2021 - Mr Squiggles wrote: 90 Points

  Rating: 90 Excellent
  
  This wine was a garnet hue in the glass, an initial gunsmoke nose that transforms into some lovely florals, dark and earthy fruits and a long finish. More fruit notes than the 2011 which makes me rate it an extra point higher.

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  4/1/2019 - mye wrote:

  Decanted 3 hours. Lots of muscles, and still quite young. Over 3 more hours of dinner it softened to quite the lovely bottle.
  I'd still hold 5+ more years, but punches above its weight/price point.

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