jean-marie fourrier

originally posted by VLM:

Sort of like translating Chauvet for wine writers.
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It's funny, I met a couple of UC Davis students in a bar recently and they complained that there wasn't a translation. This is not the first time I've heard that complaint.

The groundswell builds, winegrrrl.
 
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by .sasha:
originally posted by VLM:
Polished, as you might expect.
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It was, actually, but why would I expect that ?
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Because you've had Jean-Marie's other wines.
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yeah... every now and then.

We'll have to discuss our respective use of "polished" over a beer, next time.
 
originally posted by Claude Kolm:
originally posted by VLM:


but had to get rid of the property during a divorce.
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Where'd you get that story?
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Grapevine. He doesn't have the property, this was the story that was told me, not by him. If you know it to be false, I'll delete it.
 
I am not aware that Jean-Marie had a wife prior to his current one, whom he married a few years back and apparently was living with him in Gevrey for a few years before that. He told me that the reason he lost the estate in the south is that bad corks ruined a crop and so he didn't have the cash flow to cover the expenses/payments. It was one of the factors that caused him to explore deeply corks and eventually locate his artisinal Corsican producer. I see no reason why he should have lied about why he lost the estate.

Someone whose wines we all know and like in Cornas was in danger of losing his estate in a messy divorce a few years back, but fortunately, that result never came to be. Maybe that was the source for the grapevine? More Côte d'Or/Syrah exchanges.
 
originally posted by Claude Kolm:
I am not aware that Jean-Marie had a wife prior to his current one, whom he married a few years back and apparently was living with him in Gevrey for a few years before that. He told me that the reason he lost the estate in the south is that bad corks ruined a crop and so he didn't have the cash flow to cover the expenses/payments. It was one of the factors that caused him to explore deeply corks and eventually locate his artisinal Corsican producer. I see no reason why he should have lied about why he lost the estate.
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OK. Redacted.

Someone whose wines we all know and like in Cornas was in danger of losing his estate in a messy divorce a few years back, but fortunately, that result never came to be. Maybe that was the source for the grapevine? More Côte d'Or/Syrah exchanges.
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He did lose the very promising St. Joseph.
 
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Brézème:
originally posted by scottreiner:

-syrah is not a reductive grape, it is simply very susceptible to odium. lots of sulfur is sprayed in the vineyard to combat the odium which ends up in the wine.
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I sprayed sulfur only once in 2009 on the brezeme serine vineyard. Some of you can testify that it taste like pure s..t right now.
Saint Julien en Saint Alban vineyard has never seen a hint of sulfur. 2010 is reductive as hell.
They use tons of sulfur on grenache in Provence. I have never encountered a reductive grenache wine from there.

I guess syrah doesn't behave the same in Cote d'Or and in the Rhone:)
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I am almost positive that this is a translation problem between technical and non-technical people crossing language barriers.

Sort of like translating Chauvet for wine writers.
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i assumed this was the explanation. but, yesterday i pointed out the controversy to jean-marie and he assures me that i heard and understood correctly (his english is excellent). he stands by his assertion that syrah is not a reductive grape and that the sulfur sprayed to combat odium either by the owner of the grapes or his/her neighbors is the culprit.
 
A conversation I had with Greg Harrington of Gramercy Cellars would definitely support the reductive Syrah data. Although I don't remember the details, he has a delicate, involved racking regimen that he does with his Syrah.

Having tasted the wines, I would definitely agree with his methodology, as they're quite delicious and well-structured, but definitely on the more Baroque side of Syrah.
 
originally posted by David M. Bueker:
Just an FYI, there is a new podcast on Grape Radio with Fourrier and Burghound.
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First Alice and now Fourrier mentioning Chauvet. I expect to hear our own M. Dressner in a future podcast.
 
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