2005 Clos Fourtet St. Émilion Grand Cru Bordeaux France Wine Tasting Note

Chocolate, licorice, sea salt, smoke, roasted black cherries, spices, caramel, and dried flower aromatics take little effort to find. The palate is equal to the nose. It’s rich, concentrated, and packed with waves of salt-crusted berries, dark chocolate, chalk, and mint-leaf. The finish holds on with vibrancy, and a wealth of crushed stones that shine on the backend. One hour of decanting is a good idea. Drink from 2024-2050.

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It's the razor blade of crushed limestone that runs down the middle of your palate that grabs your attention. From there, I headed back to the nose due to its floral, dark cocoa, red fruit, crushed rock, and licorice. Deep in color, from the looks of it, you could easily confuse this with the 2015. Concentrated, opulent, dense and elegant, the sexy, vibrant, red fruit and flower-filled finish tastes and feels great. Give this 2 hours in the decanter or wait 5 years and it is going to be a cellar treasure!

Just a gorgeous wine. Layer after layer of licorice coated, black cherry, plum and truffle are all over the place, in the nose and on the palate. Silky, polished and lusciously textured, if you like young wines that are considering entering their drinking window before they reach the secondary stage, you can pop a cork. Else, wait about 5 years. Either way, this is a beauty

Young, but it's impossible not to find the potential in the glass here. Dark in color, with powerful, but refined tannins. The wine is elegant, regal, full bodied and loaded with licorice, dark plums, cherries, earth and truffle. Another 5 years will add a lot to this wine.

This is a knock out from the first sniff that gets even better after the first taste. The attention seeking nose packed with licorice, caramel, smoke, truffle and black cherry liqueur only starts the show. The opulent, sexy, hedonistic. decadent textures with all those ripe tannins and even riper, sweet fruits that coats your palate and lingers for ages seals the deal. Yes, this is still young and is only going to get better. But it so damn tasty now, I went back for another pour. If this is your style of wine, you should consider adding it to your cellar.

Showing some lightness to the color, the wine serves up truffle, licorice, black plums, cherry liqueur and cigar box, with burning embers in the nose. The wine is youthful, fresh, mouth filling, long and rich. There is fruit, freshness and flavor galore. Still young, give this just a few more years and enjoy the fireworks.

Intense aromas of licorice, jammy black fruit, truffle, spice, cocoa and earth, rich, succulent, plush, sexy, opulent textures, length, purity and palate presence. If you missed the 2009 Clos Fourtet and want a wine that is not that far off quality for less, this is the wine to buy!

Still deep in color, sporting licorice, coffee bean, blackberry, black cherry, mineral and spicy aromatics, this powerful, full bodied, opulently styled, ripe, silky wine ends with a long, dark cherry liqueur, vanilla and licorice sensation. Lush and seductive, give this 3-5 years to come together.

This is intense, complex and concentrated. Deep levels of fat, ripe, polished dark fruits. Massive, dense and sexy. Multiple layers of licorice tinged black fruit and plums are all over the place. This is a thrill a sip wine. This is a wine for pleasure seekers.

Inky colored and packed with incredibly rich, ripe black fruit, licorice and minerals, this full bodied, intense, powerful wine fills your mouth with gobs of prefectly ripe berries, plums and spice.