Wine Details
Fourrier’s vines were planted in 1940. Now more than 80 years old, they produce less and less fruit each year, but with more and more magic: tiny berries, old roots and that rare kind of concentration that does not feel heavy. It feels weightless.
This is Cherbaudes at its most seductive. Fine, silky and beautifully perfumed, with pomegranate, redcurrant, cool red fruit and a little lick of liquorice and earth. There is density here, but it is not force. It is depth. The kind that glides rather than pushes.
And then comes the texture. Soft as silk, supple as velvet, with tannins so finely woven they feel almost poured into the wine rather than built around it. There is energy, mineral lift and a cool, mouthwatering freshness that keeps everything floating.
This is not a wine trying to impress you with volume. It seduces in a whisper: light on its feet, luminous in the glass and effortlessly, dangerously charming.
The Plot
Cherbaudes sits in a remarkable position, surrounded on three sides by Grand Cru territory. Chapelle-Chambertin, Clos de Bèze and Mazis-Chambertin form its immediate neighbourhood, giving this Premier Cru a sense of proximity to greatness that is impossible to ignore.
Fourrier’s vines here were planted in 1940, making them now over 80 years old. The fruit is naturally limited, the berries small, and the resulting wine carries that old-vine signature of quiet concentration, perfume and depth without weight.
Technical
The fruit is carefully destemmed, fermented with native yeasts and handled by gentle infusion rather than heavy extraction, allowing perfume, colour and tannin to emerge without force. As a Premier Cru, it is raised with 15% new oak, enough to add quiet structure and polish, but never enough to cover the vineyard.
