Domaine Jean-Marie Fourrier Gevrey-Chambertin Vieilles Vignes 2022

The Wine Advocate - RP 89-90

Fourrier's 2022 Gevrey-Chambertin Vieilles Vignes offers up aromas of sweet, jammy cherries, berries and licorice, followed by a medium to full-bodied, fleshy and succulent palate with an ample core of pure, sun-kissed fruit.

Jean-Marie Fourrier and his team have produced another attractive set of wines that, as usual, emphasize purity, generosity and sweetness of fruit—in one or two cuvées capturing just a touch too much of the 2022 sunshine, at least for this taster. As readers will remember, Fourrier remains convinced that 100 days of hang time between flowering and harvest are essential for attaining physiological maturity, so harvest here began on September 10. As has been the case in several recent vintages, the team destemmed as usual, but they added back a proportion of stems, selected according to their maturity, to each vat. Percentages of new oak, as usual, were moderate, derived from Tonnellerie Cadus and complemented by some amphorae and stainless steel barrels