2009 Clos Fourtet

Community Tasting Notes (57) Avg Score: 94.5 points

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  4/2/2024 - djhammond Likes this wine: 96 Points

  One of my favourite St. Émilion estates, I have been champing at the bit to try this. Although it really needs another 2 or 3 years to develop further, you can already sense its greatness, and with sufficient aeration, it is already very enjoyable. The nose is already a fruit bomb with heady wine gum aromas of blackcurrant, strawberry, and raspberry, underpinned with vanilla. Likewise, front palate is luscious and silky, but unresolved tannin inhibits the wine end palate and on the finish masking its richness and complexity. Once this has been addressed, I can see myself giving this another 2 or 3 points, and it challenging the superlative 2005 for the top spot. A post script; I left a couple of glasses for the next evening, and it had further aerated. However, I will not revisit this for another couple of years.

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  3/16/2024 - Winetex Likes this wine: 94 Points

  “A legend in the making” was the comment on this wine. It’s a RP 100 pointer. Remarkable with huge body but low tannins. My guess n the was Tempranillo based the color and body. Clearly I am out of blind tasting practice. It may be also eternal so really a treat to catch this “lightning in a bottle”. It may be a few more years before the others are opened.

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  2/2/2024 - dbg wrote:

  Big, ripe, lush, modern, but well-balanced and not pruney or raisiney. Excellent.

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  12/20/2023 - dbg wrote:

  It’s been almost 4 years since my last bottle of this. Perfect cork and fill. Pop and pour, drunk over 4 hours and then finished the next day after a night in the fridge.
  
  Dark red to rim. Takes 2 hours to open in the glass. Dark fruits, berries, smoke, tar, tiny hint of VA. Medium-full body, layers of very ripe fruit, coats the palate, a touch of sweetness. Decent balance and pleasantly grippy tannins, a bit on the low acid side, long finish. Dialed back from the 2005 St Ems I’ve been opening recently (e.g. not raisiny or pruney) but still very modern style. Still young, no aged complexity. I think this one has a shot to get there. Excellent.

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  11/26/2023 - Bottle Dog Likes this wine: 94 Points

  After 2-1/2 hour decant. Rich dark red/purple with a tinge of browning. A gorgeous nose of plums, black fruits and wet fall leaves. Medium+ body, with still loads of tannins looking to soften further. Tertiary flavours starting to develop, with mushroom coming through at this point. Nice balance, and this wine feels like it is only going to get better. This wine is simply too young to maximize the enjoyment. I would suggest decanting for 4-5 hours or more, and/or wait for at least a couple of more years to open the next, it will get at least another point of 2 from me.

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