Morey Saint Denis Clos Solon, Domaine Fourrier 2008

An expressive though notably cool and restrained nose of earthy red berry fruit slides into delicious, intense and racy medium-bodied flavors that presently possess a slight finishing edge where it's not completely clear if it will round off in time or not.

Fourrier's 2008 Morey-St.-Denis Clos Salon delivers a proliferation of herbs, bittersweet flowers, roots, and red fruits at distilled and concentrated tincture strength, leading to a bracing, palate-staining impression with a saline, iodine-like, medicinal finish that resembles the corresponding Aux Echezeaux in its sense of having been macerated on cherry pits and chalk pebbles, but also encompasses a deep richness of meat stock. This lean, electrically bright Pinot sends shivers down my spine and sets my tongue quivering, though some tasters might say the same about it and not mean that as a compliment!