2019 Corton Lolieres
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The 2019 Corton Les Grandes Lolières Grand Cru has a very perfumed bouquet with ebullient red fruit, sloes, marmalade and light minty scents. It could have toppled over and become a bit overdone, but it actually/thankfully retains composure and precision. The palate is medium-bodied and lightly spiced with sappy red fruit, white pepper and clove, gently building in the mouth to a powerful yet delineated, if slightly bitter, finish. I feel that decanting would have benefitted this greatly. Tasted blind at the Burgfest tasting.
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Neal Martin
Neal Martin
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(from a .31 ha holding of 60+ year old vines). Generous wood is sufficiently prominent to all but overshadow the very ripe aromas of mocha, plum liqueur and warm earth. There is excellent richness and volume to the dense and powerful broad-shouldered flavors where the abundant dry extract imparts a sappy texture as well as buffers the very firm tannic spine shaping the impressively long and well-balanced finale. This clearly needs to more fully integrate its wood, but the necessary concentration appears to be present for that to occur. I would further note that this is less austere than is typical for a young Corton and as such it could probably be approached after only 7 to 8 years. (91-93)/2034+
Another success is the 2019 Corton Grand Cru Grandes Lolières, a full-bodied, muscular wine that's one of the more primary, slow-evolving cuvées in the cellar. Evocative of cherries, smoke, soil tones, cassis, spices and plums, it's rich and layered, with lively acids and a deft patina of oak.