2006 Forey Père et Fils Bourgogne

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  9/21/2020 - IJC Likes this wine:

  Fourteen years is a long cellarage for a Bourgogne, but in this case, it was worth the wait. Dark and mid-dark red fruits, tannins well resolved, it was a pleasure to drink, and definitely in a drinking window. Which is saying quite a lot for the wines of Forey, which can be aggressive in their youth, and sometimes fall off precipitously.
  
  Rated +1 on a scale of -1 to +3.

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  1/29/2014 - IJC wrote:

  Either this wine is way not ready to drink, or it will never be drinkable - I presume the former. The wine was so closed as to be unapproachable - thin and "prickly" aromatics, an intensely and increasingly bitter taste/ aftertaste - even after an hour of swirling, and subsequently overnight stoppered storage. I have a lot of Forey in my cellar, going back 14 vintages, and have never encountered anything quite like this. Let's give it the benefit of the doubt - it is in a sleep mode. Let's also cheer the fact that the village level wines can serve as "canaries in the coalmine" as has this one - fair warning (and relatively inexpensive) that more time is needed before venturing into the lieu-dits.
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  1/29/2014 - kevinacohn wrote:

  This wasn't giving up much of anything. Extremely closed on the nose--30 minutes of swirling in a giant glass and still almost nothing. Finally some dark berry fruit. In the mouth, an even more perplexing state of affairs: a watery front palate followed by a terribly astringent back palate. Dry and incredibly tannic. Towards the end of my glass a slightly metallic taste developed. I don't know if it needs more time or more air, but don't pop and pour now. Not rated.

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