2016 CORTON BRESSANDES GRAND CRU DOMAINE PONSOT - 6x75cl

Tasting Notes

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  Goedhuis, November 2017

  2016 was a complicated vintage in Corton. On the whole the wines are fruity, but some lack in concentration having been hit badly by the April frost. This criticism could hardly be levelled at this wine: Ponsot’s late-picking style helps enhance the natural sweetness of the fruit, and this has great concentration. Rich pomegranate flavours weave across the spiced palate.

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  Stephen Tanzer, January 2018,
  Score: 90-93

  Good deep red. Sexy cherry and spice aromas complicated by alluring soil tones. Still a touch of reduction on the palate, but clearly a much sweeter and more generous wine than the Cuvée du Bourdon, with dense, well-delineated raspberry, spice and soil tones saturating the mouth and echoing on the finish. This firmly structured, sappy wine boasts notably ripe tannins and an attractive chewiness. Domaine Ponsot has made this wine since 1989.

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Producer

Domaine Ponsot

Domaine Ponsot is an atypical but outstanding domaine in Morey St Denis. Their combination of late picking, destemming, and ageing in old oak barrels achieve the domaine’s distinctive style of long-lived wines. Laurent Ponsot left the domaine in 2017, and the estate is now run by his sister, Rose Marie Ponsot. Alexandre Abel has joined the team as régisseur, and together they continue to uphold these three principles of the estate. Furthermore, they are not afraid to experiment, and are always evolving the viticulture and winemaking style with small innovations. The estate has eschewed the fashion of using new oak barrels to age the wines, preferring seasoned casks which act as an “elevage” vessel rather than imparting barrel flavours. As Alexandre says “we want our wines to taste the maximum of the true fruit and terroir flavours that nature provides us with".