2011 Corton Grand Cru

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I was fortunate to taste the 2011s from bottle on two occasions with Co-Manager Aubert de Villaine, first at the domaine in November 2013 and earlier this year in New York. Over the course of the last few months, the wines have begun to open up nicely. This is a beautiful vintage for fans of the domaine. I expect the 2011s will offer their best drinking earlier than the 2009s, 2010s or 2012s, which is not such a bad thing for wines that have historically proven to age exceptionally well. The reds were brought in beginning on September 2 with the Corton, followed by the vineyards in Vosne on the 5th. In this vintage the domaine used around 70-80% whole clusters across the board, while the wines required a small amount of chaptalization. Readers might also enjoy this recent tasting comparing four vintages of Romanée St.-Vivant and Échézeaux over four decades.

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Aubert de Villaine told me he prefers both 2011 and 2009 to 2010, and that the latter vintage is a bit reduced today following the bottling late last winter and early spring. "The two thousand nines are seductive, while the 2010s are the opposite," he told me. (I thought the 2010s were stunning, by the way.) In 2011, DRC began harvesting on September 5 with potential alcohol in the "high 12s." De Villaine noted that the fruit is blacker in 2011, and a couple of the wines hinted at an almost chocolatey ripeness in November. The wines have more phenolic maturity than the 2010s, and more anthocyanins, he added. De Villaine compared the young 2011s to those of 1985 and 1979 and noted that they would only be racked for the assemblage prior to bottling, and that they would be fined but not filtered.

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