Domaine Meo-Camuzet - Corton Les Perrieres 2018
Price: $425.00
Sale Price: $375.95
| Producer | Domaine Meo-Camuzet |
| Country | France |
| Region | Burgundy |
| Subregion | Cote de Beaune |
| Varietal | Pinot Noir |
| Vintage | 2018 |
| Sku | 08889 |
Domaine Meo-Camuzet Description
The Vines: 100% Pinot Noir; The age of the vines is beginning to be venerable (planted in the 1950’s) and most certainly influences the character of the resulting wine. The grapes are rather small and frequently suffer from millerandage, or uneven ripening and or sizes within a grape bunch. The grapes tend to ripen early, so it is important not to harvest too late in the season.
Location: Located south of Nuits-St-Georges, this premier cru is quite high up on the hill where the soil is stony with average depth.
The Soil: A fine plot of about one and a half acres, situated just north of the village of Aloxe. “Perrières” refers to “stones” because the soil contains numerous round stones, often pink in color. The soil is quite deep, but always full of stones. The orientation is typical of red Cortons, facing due east, and the plot lies more on the lower part of the slope.
Vinification: Naturally fairly slow, it requires very little intervention as the beautiful complexity emerges on its own.
Maturation: The wine stands up well to new casks, particularly of Tronçais oak. However, its delicate character and its propensity to evolve quite quickly at the beginning, make us cautious concerning not only the proportion of new oak, but also the way we handle this wine when racking or bottling it.
Cellaring Potential: Very pleasant at the beginning, it will teach you a lot about the vintage, if you want to try a wine without opening a bottle which you know will be far from ready for drinking. Nevertheless, it’s a wine which keeps very well and ages most harmoniously.
Wine Advocate: 94 Points
The 2018 Corton Grand Cru Les Perrières is also a beautiful wine in the making, offering up notes of sweet red berries, cherries, rose petals and espresso roast that's still youthfully primary. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied, chalky and incisive, with terrific concentration, fine tannins and a beautifully defined finish. This, too, will require time, but it's less blocky and muscular than the En Rognet.
Burghound: 92 Points
A moderately toasty nose combines notes of poached plum with those of earth, violet and a wisp of gaminess. There is both good volume and density to the bigger and richer if less energetic medium weight plus-sized flavors that terminate in a lingering finish where the supporting tannins coat the palate.
Vinous Media: 91-93 Points
The 2018 Corton Perrieres Grand Cru uncludes a few stems in the blend this year and was one of two parcels picked on August 29. It has a generous bouquet of blueberry, raspberry and wild strawberry fruit, plus a touch of blood orange in the background. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannins that frame a sweeet core of red fruit. A little lower in the acidity that previous vintages, revealing white pepper and bay leaf toward the finish. I think this will offer much pleasure in its youth.
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