2015 Corton, La Vigne au Saint, Grand Cru, Domaine des Croix, Burgundy
- Red
- Dry
- Medium Bodied
- Pinot Noir
For laying down
- Neal Martin MW
- 94-96/100
Product: 20158025481
Description
With a typical imperial purple colour, this is most agreeably perfumed, elegant even, on the nose, then delivering Grand Cru density on the palate with beautiful balance. Perfumed light raspberry, this is very gracious yet with a steely thread. Drink 2022-2035.
Jasper Morris MW, Wine Buyer
David Croix has used a small percentage of whole bunches this year which is unusual for him, but he likes this approach in years with darker, riper fruit. Yields were the same as in 2012, around 25 hl/ha. He began picking his reds on 7th September, bringing the whole crop in over just four days. The Corton vineyards, both planted with 50- to 60-year-old vines, provide a fascinating contrast in style.
Jasper Morris MW, Wine Buyer
David Croix has used a small percentage of whole bunches this year which is unusual for him, but he likes this approach in years with darker, riper fruit. Yields were the same as in 2012, around 25 hl/ha. He began picking his reds on 7th September, bringing the whole crop in over just four days. The Corton vineyards, both planted with 50- to 60-year-old vines, provide a fascinating contrast in style.
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2015
Alcohol % 13.5
Maturity For laying down
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Domaine des Croix
Critics reviews
Neal Martin MW 94-96/100
The 2015 Corton Grand Cru La Vigne Au Saint was showing just a touch of reduction on the nose, though underneath lie succulent strawberry jam, raspberry preserve and fresh orange zest aromas. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin. This is one of David Croix's most elegant offerings, but don't let that fool you into thinking this does not deliver plenty of fruit...it does. It just feels so focused and tensile that you almost miss the puissance here. Simply one of the best wines David Croix has made...so far.Neil Martin - 28/12/2016
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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