2005 Domaine Fourrier Gevrey-Chambertin Aux Echezeaux Vieille Vigne

Community Tasting Notes (15) Avg Score: 91.5 points

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  1/31/2024 - bbq_grandcru Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Browning robe. Medium body. Initially some VA that blew off after about 15min of splash decanting. Over the course of 1.5-2 hours of decanting this transformed from hard edged with limited fruit - almost brutish - to delicate and nuanced. Quite an amazing transformation as I have seen occur with other 2005 Fourrier.

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  9/1/2023 - theburgburger Likes this wine: 93 Points

  First time trying a fourrier with some real age. Immediately haunting and perfumed nose of vibrant red fruits, dried flowers, earth. The palate started out a bit rough, softened up over 2+ hours to show gorgeous and juicy berries and spice. Not too complex but those fruits !!!! Yum

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  12/25/2021 - fatboi Likes this wine: 89 Points

  very secondary and showing its age quite well. nose of raspberries and sous bois. very enjoyable. would drink now. 88/89

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  5/7/2020 - honest bob wrote: flawed

  From 75cl, pretentious wax capsule concealing an inferior and evidently faulty cork. One sniff was enough: TCA. Under the taint, a rustic, sound Gevrey was discernable, with strawberry scent, a fine-grained-tannic texture and nice earthy notes. Yes, I didn't want to believe my nose, so I consumed a glass of this stuff and am therefore pickled-poisoned with TCA two hours later as I write this. The rest (and my money, and M. Fourrier's labour and probable craftsmanship) went down the drain once it was clear that the taint wasn't going to "blow off", but was there to stay.
  I have had much better luck with red Burgundy than white Burgundy recently, but in this case too I simply fail to understand one thing: what exactly makes it acceptable for a supposedly obsessive artisan producer of a consumer product at this price level to use bottle closures with a guaranteed 5%/10%/X% failure rate 15 years down the line? Why exactly is it not acceptable for that producer to switch to screwcap, or DIAM for that matter?

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  1/2/2020 - collin wrote:

  No formal notes, but delicious. I think this is essentially at peak now, though should keep for a while.

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