2020 Corton Bressandes
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The 2020 Corton-Bressandes Grand Cru has an attractive, lively bouquet with predominantly red fruit laced with forest floor and tarry notes. It's a touch reductive at the moment, but it opens nicely in the glass. The palate is well-balanced and fleshy, but it lacks complexity and feels a little anonymous towards the finish. This is a perfectly fine Corton but has less to say than the best. Tasted blind at the Burgfest tasting.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Neal Martin
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Rich purple, perhaps not quite so dense. Ripe strawberry with some floral rose notes in a concentrated register, then an explosion of blackcurrant, blackberry and some fresher red berry notes as well on the palate, soft and liquid, though the alcohol is showing, at 15%. Tasted: October 2021
Cask sample. Plenty of wood but there is the concentration of fruit to soak this up over the next few years. Good purity, fine tannin/acid balance. Expensive for Corton-Les Bressandes but delivers. (AWH)