2011 Domaine Joseph Roty Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Fontenys

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 89.8 points

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  11/12/2022 - oldwines Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Decanted at 5pm and tasted over multiple hours and with dinner of Bistecca alla Fiorentino. I thought this was better than my previous bottle. It is translucent and between ruby and garnet with a bright luster. Nose has red florals, baking spices and red berries. Palate has bright acidity but is not as tart as my note from the previous bottle described. A little more harmonious and cherry, strawberry rather than cranberry. Nice mineral backbone. Medium length finish. It was rather good with my steak but I would say not quite worth what I paid for it some years back from a shop not known for being a low price vendor.

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  5/14/2022 - oldwines Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Decanted for 2 hours before tasting with steak and mushrooms in a truffle cream sauce. Tough vintage but still quite closed. Tart cranberry, some metallic notes, sour cherry and good density and mouth feel. Seems reticent and hidden. It did not seem really powerful as some have described it. Perhaps in a “dumb” phase. Seemed like there was a barrier in the mid palate. Finish also seemed blocked. Will leave some in the decanter to retry tomorrow.

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  1/6/2021 - melvinyeowq wrote:

  Good effort for the vintage. On the lighter side for both the producer and the village, nobody figured that this was a Gevrey. No greenness here, on the red fruited end of the spectrum, but the clipped finish betrayed the weaker vintage. Others liked this more than I did but I was benchmarking this against a lovely 07 village Champ Chenys I had a few weeks ago.

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  9/4/2017 - Snru wrote:

  Drank this 2011 on my own sitting in the garden on a monday afternoon. I fixed myself a few homegrown tomatoes, baked in the oven with salt an pepper only. I got this 1er Cru from Germany in a "Restposten-Verkauf", with other ones, brought it back to Switzerland with the 20%TVA discount, sorry german guys, and was very anxious to open one of them. So thats the one I picked, Joseph Roty Les Fontenys. Got it right form the car, put of this Ice-Coolers around it, poured it with this plastic dispenser one of the burgundy winemakers gave to me, you know, one of the guys who is a superstar in Japan but hardly know in Switzerland/Europe, uc, just about everything one is supposed not to do. Took this first sip - and I liked it. Nice dark red, not like my Heinz Ketchup nearby me - darker. I like acidity and burgundy is acid. Sometimes. But this one is nice an smooth an elegant. Full body. I teasted rather dark fruits, like plums?, blackberry?, black cherry... you know, the other day I couldn't distinguish a rosé champagne from a regular dry, one so my blablabla around wine is rather limited. But I think, this is a VERY good 1er. Yeah! The bottle is about empty. Sniff!!!
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  12/18/2016 - ann yan wrote: 84 Points

  good

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