Corton-Bressandes Grand Cru 2015 - Jacques Prieur

Corton-Bressandes Grand Cru 2015 - Jacques Prieur

97/100 Wine Spectator

2015 Exceptional sunshine!

The 2015 vintage benefited from quite exceptional climatic conditions with excess sunshine, very low rainfall and very high temperatures in June and July.

The strong luminosity and heat marked this vintage by the speed of its vegetative cycle and certain stages such as flowering at the beginning of June and veraison at the beginning of August were dazzling.

Harvesting began at the Domaine on September 3rd for the Chardonnays and September 7th for the Pinots Noirs.

2015 is once again an extremely early vintage and joins the years 2003, 2007 and 2011.

The first tastings show generous white wines and refined red wines.

GRAPE VARIETY & SURFACE AREA

Grape variety : 100% Pinot Noir on a plot of 0.73 hectare.

TERROIR

Vineyard located on the hill of the Grands Crus of Corton. Its south-east orientation and its slight slope guarantee a perfect maturity of the grapes.

The clay-limestone soil with the presence of stones, linked to the orientation, favours, whatever the climatic conditions of the year, an exceptional earliness of the maturity of the grapes.

VINIFICATION & MATURING

The grapes are hand-picked, then sorted and completely destemmed. The vatting period lasted 19 days. We punch the cap twice a day during the active phase of alcoholic fermentation. Malolactic fermentation is 100% complete. Maturing is 100% in oak barrels.

Duration of ageing: 20 months.

TASTING NOTES

Tasted in May 2017

DRESS : Intense ruby red with dark purple highlights.

NOSE : Smoky, tobacco, leather notes evolving towards notes of ripe and fresh black fruits at the same time.

PALATE: Dense, with a pulpy and crisp fruitiness, liquorice notes. Refined tannins. Warm finish.