2005 Gevrey-Chambertin "Clos St. Jacques", Domaine Fourrier (750ml)

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Vintage: 2005
Format: 750ml
Wine Name: Gevrey-Chambertin
Vineyard: Clos St. Jacques
Designation: 1er Cru
Appellation: Gevrey-Chambertin
Producer: Domaine Fourrier
Varietal: Pinot Noir
Type: Red
Country: France
Region: Burgundy
Sub-Region: Cote de Nuits
Alcohol:

Tasting note: Good deep red. Knockout nose combines raspberry, mocha, roast coffee, game and minerals, accented by mint and oak spice. The palate offers a lush wall of thick fruit that saturates the entire palate without leaving any impression of weight. This densely packed beauty finishes extremely long and smooth, with utterly suave tannins and superb aromatic lift. (94+pts Stephen Tanzer)

Tasted: Mar./Apr. 2008
Score: 94+
Drink: N/A

Tasting note: Fourrier's 2005 Gevrey-Chambertin Clos St.-Jacques reveals a gorgeous aroma of black fruits, rose, truffle, tea and musk, a marrowy, creamy richness of texture, and a riveting finishing complexity of fruit, meat, flowers, pungent spices and minerals. If this is not a case of progression into the territory of grand cru quality, I don't know what is. I would plan to start following this from ten years out and anticipate at least a second decade of improvement. (With a vintage-typical, yet in this instance, somehow not disruptive contrast of milky texture with tart fresh fruit, and displaying strikingly overt minerality, the 2004 rendition of this wine is also well worth a decade of cellaring.)

The articulate and opinionated Jean-Marie Fourrier staunchly believes in the inclusion of uncrushed fruit (to among other things prolong fermentation and, he claims, diminish the efficiency of alcoholic conversion); leaving the young wines on their lees (with high CO2 retention) eighteen months before bottling; employing a mere 20% of new barrels for all wines; and applying only minimal doses of sulfur. That the property from which he sources is all owned outright, and is largely in vines of over fifty years age planted by his father or grandfather before the days of clones certainly helps explain the consistently excellent quality at this address. (94-95pts DS, Wine Advocate)

Tasted: Apr. 2007
Score: 94-95
Drink: N/A

Tasting note: A positively gorgeous nose of cool red, blue and violet aromas nuanced with hints of anise, stone, mild earth and crushed herb notes that continue onto the classy, refined and very pure flavors that retain a terrific sense of focus and detail on the almost Zen-like finish that is a study in harmony and grace. Flat out terrific and highly recommended. (92-94pts Allen Meadows, AKA “The Burghound”)

Tasted: Jan. 01, 2007
Score: 92-94
Drink: 2015+

Tasting note: The 2005 Clos St. Jacques is, not surprisingly, the best of a very stellar lineup of Gevrey premier crus in the Fourrier cellars this year. The bouquet is deep and beautifully complex for such a young wine, as it offers up a mélange of black cherries, red plums, cocoa, grilled meats, blood orange, a strikingly complex base of soil nuance, woodsmoke, mustard seed, roses and perhaps a whisper of vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, deep and gloriously pure, with great mid-palate depth, impeccable balance, laser-like focus, fine-grained tannins, and haunting length and complexity on the transparent and intensely flavored finish. Brilliant. (Drink between 2015-2050) (95pts JG, View from the Cellar)

Tasted: Nov./Dec. 2006
Score: 95
Drink: 2015-2050