After Monday’s dinner (HERE), I felt I needed to take it easy and have a light dinner of roast chicken legs with mashed potatoes and roasted veggies. What to drink with this? Well, duh. Burgundy.
-2006 Fourrier Morey St Denis Clos Solon
I am really loving these 2006s and having a hard time keeping my hands off of them. Between Bachelet, Fourrier, Raphet and a few others, I’ve found them all to have a lovely sappy fruit that never gets too ripe, keeping a core of minerality and acidity that balances things out. And this wine was no different.
It offered beautiful, slightly sweet dark cherry and raspberry notes, with a core of earthy minerality and refreshing acidity. I opened this and left it standing in the Cave for about 2 hours before dinner, and it really changed, becoming darker and gaining weight and texture as it breathed. By dinner-time, it was more put-together, rounder, and more enjoyable, though still with that earthy coarseness I associate with MSD. Despite that, it had a purity that is a hallmark of Fourrier and that I love so much.
And oh, yeah, it went great with the meal.
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