Bernard Faurie
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Bernard Faurie,
Ready, but will improve,
The lower Greffieux fruit adds an approachable twist to the Calvinist solidity of the Bessards grapes. Their blend is therefore a marriage of opposites and has worked well in 2014, each of the equal shareholders taming the inclination of the other, one indulgent and amorphous, the other ascetic and rather unforgiving, with a pleasing flourish of fruit and Hermitage panache.
Drink 2018-2022.
Simon Field MW – Wine Buyer
Drink 2018-2022.
Simon Field MW – Wine Buyer
Bottle
£58.00
Case price (6)
£313.20
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£34.80
Bottle 6 x 75cl 3cs
£247.98
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Bernard Faurie,
Ready, but will improve,
The Bessards Méal cuvée is more granitic in style and outlook than its rather more playful sibling. The salty minerality and complex herbal subplots both invigorate what is already an extremely engaging narrative. Dark fruit and grip hold sway here as they will do for some time, as one would expect from a traditional and very serious Hermitage.
Drink 2019-2024.
Simon Field MW – Wine Buyer
Drink 2019-2024.
Simon Field MW – Wine Buyer
Bottle
£66.00
Case price (6)
£356.40
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£39.60
Bottle 6 x 75cl 5cs
£283.98
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Bottle
£85.00
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£459.00
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£51.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 10cs
£369.48
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The magus of Tournon, M Faurie is a quiet, softly-spoken individual. His garage-cum-cellar is a chaotic model of disorder and confusion and he often seems unsure as to which wines are located in which barrels. And yes, you have guessed it, all is rendered miraculously irrelevant by the alchemical processes that have actually produced the wines. Eschewing destemming, and favouring lengthy elevage, M Faurie, is certainly old school. The type of school, evidently, that everyone will fight to get into. Given the paucity of allocation, the fight may be a keen one in the great vintage of 2009.