This Aloxe Corton is located next to the Corton. We buy it as a must from a great winemaker who grows his vines and carefully develops his wine and then we age it.
The vines are 70 and 30 years old. The yield is low, about 40h per hectare.
The grape variety is 100% Pinot Noir. The vines are grown in non-certified organic farming.
The soil is very clayey, 70/80 cms laid on very large rocks.
The wine is vinified in vats for about 15-17 days, then put in oak barrels where it remains for at least 14 months.
We use about 20% new barrels.
This wine is sensual but with a fairly clear bloody note, aromas of raw meat, new leather, nutmeg, a trio of plums-cherries and raspberries, tulip and peony. There is a sweetness somewhere between white sugar and icing sugar, raspberry jam, strawberry jam and even a hint of balsamic. Even if the wine is quite charming, you need to place the tannins on a red meat dish to release the fruit.
Tasting
Raphael GIMENEZ-FAUVETY ‘s tasting notes – Retailer ; “De Corps et d’Esprit” in Paris
Big bottle coming up. Depth and concentration, very mature, concentrated compote of red and black fruits, burlat cherry, raspberry and cherry jam, notes of marmalade, orange fruit paste (as in the whites of the vintage), cocoa, mocha coffee and more blackberry jam and macerated black fruits. The palate is very similar to the nose, pepper, leather, plum-damsons-blackberry, a lot of substance, remains supple despite the high density, always finishes in harmony, damsons, cherry, bark, leather, and later, so much later it feels long, a superb raspberry note.
Raphael GIMENEZ-FAUVETY ‘s tasting notes – Retailer ; “De Corps et d’Esprit” in Paris
Sensual but with a fairly clear hint of blood, human blood this time, aromas of raw meat also like lean-cut beef, white flowers, white peach (yes I know, it’s a red), new leather, nutmeg, a trio of plums-cherries and raspberries, tulip and peony. Here too there is a fine sweetness between white sugar and icing sugar, raspberry jam, strawberry jam and even a balsamic note of something akin to lipstick. Juicy and easy palate, the tannins are a little more obvious than those of the Pommard, cherry, raspberry and leather are consistent with the nose, even if the wine is quite charming, you will have to put the tannins on a red meat to release the fruit.
- + 2018
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Raphael GIMENEZ-FAUVETY ‘s tasting notes – Retailer ; “De Corps et d’Esprit” in Paris
Big bottle coming up. Depth and concentration, very mature, concentrated compote of red and black fruits, burlat cherry, raspberry and cherry jam, notes of marmalade, orange fruit paste (as in the whites of the vintage), cocoa, mocha coffee and more blackberry jam and macerated black fruits. The palate is very similar to the nose, pepper, leather, plum-damsons-blackberry, a lot of substance, remains supple despite the high density, always finishes in harmony, damsons, cherry, bark, leather, and later, so much later it feels long, a superb raspberry note.
- + 2017
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Raphael GIMENEZ-FAUVETY ‘s tasting notes – Retailer ; “De Corps et d’Esprit” in Paris
Sensual but with a fairly clear hint of blood, human blood this time, aromas of raw meat also like lean-cut beef, white flowers, white peach (yes I know, it’s a red), new leather, nutmeg, a trio of plums-cherries and raspberries, tulip and peony. Here too there is a fine sweetness between white sugar and icing sugar, raspberry jam, strawberry jam and even a balsamic note of something akin to lipstick. Juicy and easy palate, the tannins are a little more obvious than those of the Pommard, cherry, raspberry and leather are consistent with the nose, even if the wine is quite charming, you will have to put the tannins on a red meat to release the fruit.
