On May 22, 5:03�am, "Nils Gustaf Lindgren"
> wrote:
> ... 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.
> ---
> 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).
> ---
> Does anybody here have any experience with older vintages form this
> producer? I am very curious. Indeed I am.
>
> TIA
>
> Cheers
>
> Nils

I've never had any truly mature wines, but I've had several Fourriers
from '95-'02 (mostly '99s). Mostly the Gevrey Cherbaudes and the lowly
Petits Vougeot; I've had maybe one bottle each of the Combe aux
Moines('95 or '96) and one CSJ ('98?). I thought all lovely, and would
happily buy the wines if they hadn't recently gotten such good press
from Kolm, Meadows, and Gilman (as well as good word of mouth) and
have shot up.

Never "big", always elegant. Fairly traditional, in the mode of
Angerville and Mugnier. I've only had the wines side by side a couple
times,but found the Gevrey 1ers quite distinctive from one another.