2004 Gevrey Chambertin Les Gruenchers
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Bright red-ruby. Perfumed aromas of raspberry, crushed stone and minerals. A juicy, tightly wound fruit bomb with spicy raspberry flavor lifted by a noble note of blood orange. Penetrating and taut but hardly a fleshy wine. Finishes with firm tannins. Time in bottle may well bring an outstanding rating.
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Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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Good medium red. Musky, wild aromas of raspberry, minerals and game. Sweet, concentrated and pure, with a rounder texture than the basic village bottling. Here the tannins are sweeter. Fourrier notes that it takes three or four months of aging on the lees after the end of the malolactic fermentation for the wine to take on a glyceral character from the lees-the wine actually absorbs two or three liters of lees, he says-and this wine finished its malo early.
About the producer
Domaine Fourrier is located in the village of Gevrey-Chambertin. The estate has been run by Jean-Marie Fourrier since 1994, and has rapidly become one of the village’s most fashionable names, known for producing pure and transparent Pinot Noir.