Chateau Clos Fourtet   Clos Fourtet

2013 Clos Fourtet

By Chateau Clos Fourtet

Current market price

$1,585.84

12x75cl

Highest score

90

POP score

95

Scores and tasting notes

90

The 2013 Clos Fourtet clearly has one of the best aromatic profiles of 2013: clean and pure red cherries dallying with crushed strawberry fruit and dried fig that is a joy. The palate is lively on the entry with a keen line of acidity. There is a pleasant edginess from start to finish and it displays admirable precision if not immense depth on the finish. This is an early-drinking Clos Fourtet, one that is well made by Mathieu Cuvelier and this team. This is recommended.

Neal Martin - The Wine Advocate, 28 October 2016

88-90

One can sense the chalky limestone soil base of much of the Clos Fourtet vineyard (adjacent to the walls of this medieval showcase town). The dense ruby/plum-colored 2013 offers sweet black cherry and cassis fruit, good minerality, slightly angular acids (a characteristic of many 2013s), and ripe tannins. It should turn out to be very good, but it is clearly not one of the great Clos Fourtets made over the last decade or more. Drink it over the next 10-12 years.

Robert Parker Jr - Wine Advocate #214 Aug 2014

Vintage performance