Gevrey Chambertin Goulots, Domaine Fourrier 2013

This is also markedly floral with a cool and reserved nose that grudgingly displays wet stone and sauvage hints on the wonderfully fresh mélange of red berry fruit scents. The equally cool and restrained middle weight flavors possess excellent delineation on the stony and vibrant medium-bodied flavors that deliver fine length on the balanced finale. This beautiful effort is textbook Goulots.

To my palate, les Goulots (probably along with Petits Chapelle) is the most elegant premier cru in all of Gevrey, and Jean-Marie Fourrier makes the gold standard Goulots. His 2013 is stellar, soaring from the glass in a sappy blend of cherries, pomegranate, violets, chalky soil tones, raw cocoa, woodsmoke, a touch of nutskin and a discreet base of vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is medium-full, pure and sappy at the core, with great transparency, tangy acids, a lovely sense of reserve, fine-grained tannins and a very, very long, pure and utterly suave finish. This is so beautifully balanced that it will be accessible early, but I would not think of touching a bottle until it is at least eight or nine years of age, as there is so much more complexity that will come with bottle age that it would be infanticide to open this beautiful wine too early! (Drink between 2021-2055)