.... from a 5-day trip to Bourgogne, I have meditated on the wines of George
Fourrier in Gevrey. Why? Perhaps because Mr Fourrier said all the right
things, was eloquent, very slightly flippant about things I myself could
very well be sarcastic about, displayed pride on his father showing Big Bob
the door after saying something suitably earthy ... and because I could not
come to grips with his wines, of which we tasted 6 or 7, all from the 2006
vintage.
Monsieur does not like new oak, and considers it an environmental hazard,
considering the amount of oak needed to produce all the new oak barrels that
according to him his Father told him Big Bob haD SAID HE NEEDED TO MAKE good
wine. Monsieur re-uses his barrels, sterilising them with boiling water to
avoid bacterial overgrowth (Brett etc). I should be able to relate t that -
being slightly adverse to new oak, and, on the whole, considering an
environment as something of a bonus.
He disapproves of chemical fertilizers, various -icides, but confessed to
some admiration for the helicopter pilots that spray the fields of some of
his neighbours. THey really are terrific and deathdefying pilots.
He was all in favor of terroir, that wine should express its origin, as well
as its vintage.
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Now comes the problematic part.
To me, his wines did not express very much at all. The only wines that I
could tell apart were those on the village level, the Gevrey vz the Morey St
Denis.
After that, despte diligent sniffing, tasting, and making all those funny
noises that accompany tastings, I could really, really not make out the
differences. This said, the wines were young, very young even, and not from
a vintage very likely to shine (neither was 1947, Mr Fourrier helpfully
pointed out).
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Does anybody here have any experience with older vintages form this
producer? I am very curious. Indeed I am.

TIA

Cheers

Nils