TN: 1985 Faiveley GC Cazetiers

WINE TALK
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Just a really lovely bottle of wine. Deep rose color, great nose, balanced, almost sweet, very clean with just enough structure to support the beautiful and mature fruit. A pointe (pardon the lack of accents) but no rush from cold storage.

Cazetiers is consistently my favorite premier cru from Faiveley and this did not disappoint. And drunk properly - i.e., with just one other person so each of us had plenty of wine and time to spend with it.

2

Sounds great, Maureen. I have 2 bots of the 1990, but figure they are still a bit short of their peak.

3

Thanks Maureen. Agree on your point regard Cazetiers being a great wine from Faiveley, the 07 particularly good for the vintage.

4

Lucky you! I don’t have any more '85 Faiveleys, which I can imagine must be drinking very well now! I see I do have an '88 Cazetiers though… maybe in 5 more years?? [swoon.gif]

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Hi Maureen,
Thanks for the note on this, I was very jealous just reading the title, as I’m also a big fan of Faiveley’s Cazetiers (and that vineyard in general) but haven’t had one that old. So I appreciate getting to live vicariously.

Cheers,
-Robert

6

You are fortunate. I enjoyed the 86 not long ago which was remarkably delicious.

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Sounds great Maureen.
Took a bottle of the '99 to dinner last week and sadly it was compromised.
Perhaps storage before it got to me. Bummed as I was looking forward to it.
I too am a fan of Faiveley’s Cazetiers.

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Who else makes good Cazetiers? I have some '02 Bruno Clair but have yet to try one.

Rick

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My two favorite Cazetiers are from Rousseau and Philippe Leclerc. Very different styles, but similar profiles for the fruit. Leclerc’s 1985s (this and the Combe aux Moines) have been show stealers. (I drank the last Cazetiers in 2007; still have one Combes; luckily I have 8 2005 Cazetiers, which blew me away in 2007, along with the Combes). I’d guess Faiveley was similar in that the wines were monsters early on. Charles Rousseau always said that the Cazetiers was the “hardest” of the Gevrey 1er crus…and needed lots of time, when tasting through his lineup. But, the Rousseau style wouldn’t let any wine be too hard, IMO.
From the Rousseau website:

Spices and black fruit notes

Muscular and rustic with a certain firmness.

To drink after 6-7 years.

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Thanks, Stuart.

Rick

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I’m not as much of a Leclerc fan, but really love Rousseau’s version. Of the Rousseau 1ers, the CSJ gets all of the attention (for an obvious reason), but I really enjoy the Cazetiers there too (especially when it was more reasonably priced).

Faiveley and Rousseau are my two favorites, but Bouchard also makes a really nice one, and I’ve had a good version a few times from Bruno Clair.

Cheers,
-Robert

12

Jadot bottle an excellent version.

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Lovely wine Maureen, thanks for the note.
Best Regards
Jeremy

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love old Faiveley. I fondly remember being treated to a couple of the 64s about 10 years ago. I’ll bet that 85 was good.
alan

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Rick,
I would also add Serafin as an excellent Cazetiers producer in most vintages. It is often his best wine outside of his Charmes-Chambertin. On the masculine, structured side, but not over-extracted IMO.
Cheers,
Steve

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Hmm… Ron Greene and I shared a bottle of 1990 Joseph Faiveley Corton “Clos des Cortons” last fall and we were quite disappointed. Hard edge, stalky, time-in-the glass did not improve it. Didn’t they use a lot of wood and then changed style/practice in the 1990’s?

Paul