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2014 Beaune, Les Grèves, 1er Cru, Domaine des Croix, Burgundy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Pinot Noir
Ready, but will improve
Neal Martin MW
85/100
Product: 20148025465
2014 Beaune, Les Grèves, 1er Cru, Domaine des Croix, Burgundy

Description

Made using 50 percent whole-bunch fermentation and healthy fruit this has a lovely crystal-clear purple colour with a beautiful fragrance. With dense fruit on the cusp of red and black, there’s more short-term tannins from the stems but these will integrate beautifully with the fruit. This will have a great future.

David Croix started picking here on 11th September, two days before he began at Camille Giroud. This was a much easier harvest than 2013, as there was much less hail than the previous vintage. The wines have an elegance and freshness to them that appeals enormously, and yet does not hide their impressive concentration.
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2014
Alcohol % 12.5
Maturity Ready, but will improve
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Domaine des Croix

Critics reviews

Neal Martin MW 85/100
Tasted blind at the Burgfest 2014 tasting, the 2014 Beaune 1er Cru Grves by Domaine des Croix is a wine that I was not convinced about when I tasted it with David Croix from barrel. Now in bottle, my conservative appraisal was well founded. It has a slightly jammy (carbonic?) bouquet with scents of raspberry preserve, crushed strawberry and a touch of vanilla. It is a little showy compared to the Beaune Grves from Tollot-Beaut, itself one of the vineyard's more outgoing producers! The palate is a little hard on the entry, firm and grippy in the mouth but with a slightly metallic and brutish finish. David has produced much better than this. Tasted September 2017.Neil Martin - 31/10/2017
Neal Martin MW, (Oct 2017)

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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