2003 Domaine Fourrier Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Combe aux Moines Vieille Vigne

Community Tasting Notes (23) Avg Score: 91.1 points

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  11/24/2023 - sleepyhaus wrote:

  This was excellent. Still showing loads of fresh fruit, and just beginning to show mature notes of forest floor and mushroom. None of the 2003 excesses are present here. The fruit is fresh and dark red in tone, not roasted or dried. Really good stuff and ready to drink, IMO. Should drink well for several years.

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  1/1/2023 - Sean Tay Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Pronounced nose intensity with notes of red cherry, barley, sour cherry. Medium+ acidity and medium tannin. Tannin is smooth

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  11/26/2022 - sleepyhaus wrote:

  A very nice and surprisingly mature red burgundy, showing cherry fruit along with secondary or even tertiary notes of forest floor and pleasant decay, along with a bit of spice. I'd have no way to have guessed this came from 2003, as it doesn't show hot or candied or dense or roasted. It does appear to be older that I'd have expected, and might have guessed a solid vintage from the mid to early 90s if served blind (and if I didn't know the wine of course). In a good place right now.

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  11/24/2022 - Nickma Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Interesting to read the prior tasting notes for this lively, intense and layered wine. I wonder to what extent storage and shipping may have played a part in bottles that others have evidently found to be flat or relatively uninteresting.
  
  I'm going to call this as truly great Burgundy.
  
  Having consumed quite a bit of Fourrier over a 20-year span, vintages 1999-2019, this stands out as the greatest bottle - in fact so far stands out as the greatest **8** bottles consumed during the period November 2022 through end of December 2022!
  
  Served first at the shareholder dinner of Wine Owners last November with several wine professionals present, it blew every one of them away. Since tasted on 3 further occasions, including Christmas lunch with turkey, and equally impressive each time, with a finish that blends from one sip to the next.
  
  As has been previously stated by others, dramatically atypical for a 2003 in its freshness and lift, but with incredible intensity and bright raspberry core. Young still, little sign of tertiary development other than a resolved, liqueur-like mouthfeel, and huge aromatics.
  
  This has been in an excellent UK bonded storage for 17 years without having been moved.
  
  Jean-Marie hired a refrigerated van to bring the grapes down from the vineyard the few hundred meters to his cuverie in 2003. Such attention to detail in handling the bunches to ensure their integrity and to avoid spontaneous fermentation in the extreme conditions of 2003, clearly paid off.

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  1/21/2018 - Rupert wrote: 90 Points

  A conventional, mature, red burgundy, soft, mellow red fruit in the middle, no sign of the 2003 heat - lovely, but much quieter than the Solon used to be.

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