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2012 Corton, Les Grèves, Grand Cru, Domaine des Croix, Burgundy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Pinot Noir
For laying down
Neal Martin MW
92/100
Product: 20121066986
2012 Corton, Les Grèves, Grand Cru, Domaine des Croix, Burgundy

Description

Another glowing colour, with a tight nose, this wine is concentrated but backward. A great wine on the palate that is completely covered in fruit. The personality comes from the red soil full of iron oxide pellets.
Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Wine Director

The average yield across the domaine this year is 25 hl/ha, well below par, but not the catastrophe which was visited on some, and these 2012s are clearly David’s best wines yet. He found them easy to vinify, though they have required some careful management in barrel because they are so concentrated and compact. The grapes were completely healthy and showed the best analytical balance one could ask for, mostly between 12.5% to 13% alcohol and ideal acidity to preserve freshness.



Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2012
Alcohol % 13
Maturity For laying down
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Domaine des Croix

Critics reviews

Neal Martin MW 92/100
Following from my tasting in barrel, the 2012 Corton Greves Grand Cru is turning out to be a little gem. Those lovely fruits, maraschino cherry and fresh strawberry, are beginning to blossom in bottle while the palate has retained and enhanced that mineral core. Perhaps still linear in style, this should give great pleasure given two or three years. Drink 2016-2025.Neil Martin - 26/06/2014
Drink 2016 - 2025
Neal Martin MW, (Jun 2014)

About this wine

Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy's Côte d'Or. Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of the Côte d`Or.
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Domaine des Croix

The former Domaine Duchet in Beaune has been bought by American Roger Forbes and his co-investors, and entrusted to the care of David Croix, the gifted winemaker for Camille Giroud. David, the emerging talent of the year according to Bourgogne Aujourd'hui magazine (issue no. 73) is in complete charge at the domaine, which has been renamed Domaine des Croix. The first vintage, 2005, comprised Corton-Charlemagne, Bourgogne Rouge, Beaune and various Beaune premiers crus from Pertuisots, Cent Vignes, Bressandes and Grèves. The vineyards have been farmed organically since 2008. From 2009 there will be Aloxe-Corton and Corton Grèves. Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Wine Director and author of the award-winning Inside Burgundy comprehensive handbook.
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