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Bottle of Domaine Fourrier Gevrey-Chambertin Les Cherbaudes 2016 [NET]-Red Wine-Flatiron SF

Domaine Fourrier Gevrey-Chambertin Les Cherbaudes 2016 [NET]

Red Wine from Burgundy, France
by Domaine Fourrier
$240.00
NET

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What is this wine?
Domaine Fourrier, run by Jean-Marie Fourrier, is one of Burgundy’s cult producers, revered for old-vine Pinot Noir and a philosophy of minimal intervention that captures pure terroir. Les Cherbaudes is a premier cru vineyard in Gevrey-Chambertin, located just below the famed Clos de Bèze, with clay-limestone soils that yield wines of both power and refinement. The 2016 vintage was marked by frost and reduced yields, but the surviving fruit was of exceptional quality, producing concentrated, balanced wines with vivid aromatics.

Why get this wine?
Fourrier’s wines are some of the hardest to find in Burgundy, and Les Cherbaudes is an insider’s cru, often described as delivering near–grand cru character at premier cru pricing. In the frost-affected 2016 vintage, yields were tiny, making this already rare bottling even more collectible.

What does this wine taste like?
Ripe cherry, raspberry, and blackberry with notes of rose petal, spice, and subtle earth. Medium-bodied yet intense, with fine tannins, bright acidity, and a long, mineral-driven finish.

When should you drink this wine?
Best 2024–2038. Decant if drinking young. Excellent with duck, venison, or mushroom dishes.

Left Sustainably Farmed

Fourrier is a sensation for some obvious reasons and for one slightly less obvious reason. Obvious reasons include: great holdings in the famous village of Gevrey Chambertin, old vines, great farming, and great wine-making.

The less obvious reason is style. Jean-Marie Fourrier, after he took over his family's domaine, adopted a style that speaks with precision to what the current generation of Burgundy drinkers wants in a bottle of wine. They no longer want oak flavors. They no longer want heavy extraction. They don't want lots of sulphur and reduction (at least in their red wines), and they didn't want to wait 10 years before drinking.

Instead, we want purity and transparency. We want direct access into the beautiful terroir of the Cote d'Or. To this end, Fourrier dialed back the new oak and extraction, putting him in line with other current-generation stars like Mugnier and Roumier. He eschews sulphur additions and instead allows a little bit of residual carbonation to stay in the wine to act as a preservative (so he recommends always decanting a young bottle of Fourrer).

Professional Reviews

Burghound

BH 92
"Moderate wood influence can be found on the overtly sauvage-inflected red currant, plum and earth-scented nose. The supple and round medium-bodied flavors possess a velvet-textured mid-palate that is really quite seductive though the natural muscle of a Gevrey 1er shows up on the saline and ever-so-mildly rustic finale. This quality effort is firm enough to require at least 5+ years of cellaring and it will need at least a decade to arrive at its apogee."

Antonio Galloni

AG 92
"Good bright red. Distinctly dark aromas of black cherry, licorice and menthol convey a medicinal cast. Then fine-grained, suave and sweet, with flavors of black cherry, blackberry and licorice pastille. Considering the wine's medicinal coolness, this midweight is also quite ripe. Finishes with harmonious tannins that saturate the tongue and build. Lovely subtle length; spreads out subtly to saturate the palate." -Stephen Tanzer

Robert Parker

RP 92
"The 2016 Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Cherbaudes is excellent, unfurling in the glass with a complex bouquet of dark chocolate, cassis, wild berries and plums. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied, deep and concentrated, with a layered core of crunchy fruit, fine structuring tannins and a long, sapid finish. While this is very elegant in style this year, it has more than enough substance to evolve in bottle for two decades or more." -William Kelley

Decanter

D 93
"Fourrier’s old vines in Cherbaudes, just below the Clos de Bèze, were planted in 1928, and they have produced one of the highlights of the range in 2016. Aromas of plum, cherry, forest floor and grilled meat are framed by a creamy application of new oak, introducing a full-bodied, concentrated wine with an excellent chassis of rich tannins and good depth at the core. Drinking Window 2024 - 2045."

Details

  • Grape Variety

    Pinot Noir

  • Vintage

    2016

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Organic

  • Style

    Earthy , Elegant , Minerally

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Medium Bodied