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The Corton Clos du Roi from Domaine de Montille is a gorgeous wine. Its transparent and lightfooted but with true grand cru intensity. The nose offer beautiful organic red fruits - delicate and transparent unveiling the fine minerailty of the Corton hill. On the palate intense yet also refined and …
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The Corton from Bouchard is one of my reference wines on the big hill - as it has performed well quite consistently over many years. The Bouchard Corton is from the Le Corton section at the very top of the vineyard, a section with a high proportion of limestone - this yields an intensely mineral …
The Corton offers a big step up in weight and concentration ... but is still delightfully refined and balanced. It's normally one of my favorite wines from Bouchard - and the 2014 edition is most certainly not disappointing. In the bouquet fine detailed fruit - pomegranate and red currant - brought …
The 78 Corton Bressandes from Antonin Guyon is showing remarkably well. The bouquet offer a lovely mixture of red forrest berries fresh and quite charming ... hints of orange peel and coffee after some time in the glass. On the palate light-weight lacking a bit of midpalate weight and concentration …
During the Hospices de Beaune weekend I was lucky and got invited to a Masterclass tasting of Bouchard Pere et Fils 2014s. The tasting was conducted by the new Maitre de Chai (Cellar Master) Frédéric Weber, and comprised a fine selection of the 2014s - both reds and whites. In this article I will …
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