2005 Domaine Fourrier Morey St. Denis 1er Cru Clos Sorbes Vieille Vigne

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  11/16/2018 - rlove wrote: 92 Points

  Mixed red berries and an intense, lovely mineral underpinning. Nicely structured and not overripe, a nice showing for the warm vintage, with balanced acidity and a round, full texture. The 2005 Clos Sorbes benefited from decanting to reveal its full bouquet. Drink now through 2028.

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  4/18/2012 - mike wrote: 91 Points

  Very dark fruited and scented wine with lots of complexity - earth, great spice, truffles. Though having broad flavours it still holds great tension, no flab here. The structure is medium but the balance suggest that this will be very longed lived.

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  11/23/2009 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 92 Points

  This was maybe slightly underwhelming through most of the bottle but the last glass after about four hours in a decanter was revelatory... wish I'd been able to experience more of it in that state, and look forward to seeing how the wine develops with more age. Initially, it didn't show a whole lot, nice berry fruit and some quiet hissy tannin - the fruit not as aggressively ripe as many '05s, and the tannin not as finessed. Overall, a nice, solid, textbook red Burgundy that made me crave a little more distinction. And it's in that last glass that the distinction eventually came, when all of a sudden it developed all these extra layers that weren't there before, like you'd just put on your glasses and now you can see clearly. The most notable thing at that point is the crushed-pebble minerality, a really nice development in something that showed just basic pinot fruit at first. In a lot of ways this is like a junior Clos des Lambrays.

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