TN: 2009 Faiveley Mercurey La Framboisière

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  • 2009 Faiveley Mercurey La Framboisière - France, Burgundy, Côte Chalonnaise, Mercurey (3/6/2012)
    Perhaps the most open knit, user friendly young Faiveley Mercurey I have encountered. There’s flesh, creaminess and sweet fruits all coupled with some cola notes from the oak ( a marker that I often see in new model Faiveley). Underneath the squishy strawberries is a bed of iron and some soot and meaty things punch through all of the lusciousness. It has good chewy structure and you do get a lot of wine for the bucks and one that I suspect will age well.

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This is good to know. I think I saw some at my LWS at a reasonable price.

I thought the '02 vintage of this wine punched well above it’s weight in the Burgundy QPR division.

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Thanks Jeremy, sounds good. Recenty had the 2007 of this wine and really enjoyed and also felt like I got a lot wine for the price (US$30 ish).

Cheers
Brodie

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Jeremy,
Man, I want to drink that wine right now. Thanks for the information. There are some delicious red Burgundies made in 2009.

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I am a big fun of Faiveley Mercurey since vintage 2005.

There is a huge difference in style between 2005 and 2006 La Framboiseieres which is normally more rustic than the other two Mercurey : namely CdMgylands and La Mauvarennes. For their mercurey wines, Faiveley used 3 years old oak-barrels from their other facility in NSG and also used a few percentage of new oak barrels.

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I just had the Clos des Myglands PC which was delicious. Is this the same wine?

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The '09 Faiveleys sure are likeable wines…

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Faiveley has quite a few Mercurey wines. Their top one is : Clos du Roy then their 3 monpoles : Clos de Myglands, La Framboisiere and finally La Mauvarennes.
In Quebec, Canada for vintage 2005, CdR is at around $42; CdMgland is around $33; La Framb is around $ 28 ( which I still have more than 3 cases left ) and La Mauvarrennes at around $22.

Like Jeromey said CdMyglands …is the one mostly open.

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the 98 Close to My Glands (little play on words seemed funny at the time…obviously not now!) was particularly lacking in charm a few years ago, but that may have been more a reflection of vintage and Faiveley erathan a comment on the vineyard

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Thanks, Jeremy. Sounds like its the good++ value it usually is. I really do like strawberry jam.

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Thanks for the note. There are tons of positive comments on '09 Myglands and I was really disappointed. It was really bland and had notes like you describe - creamy, cola - but I did not find them as good things.

A.

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If you just got it, let it sit for 9+ months. The wine (and the other Faiveley Mercureys) need a minute to tighten up, in my experience. I bet it will show a lot better. Myglands is as reliable as it gets.