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Chandon de Briailles, Corton Bressandes Grand Cru 2011
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Tasting notes
Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
(20% vendange entier; 10% new oak): Good bright red. Ripe raspberry and graphite aromas are perked up by a whiff of blood orange. Supple, sappy and intense, with an exotic suggestion of spun sugar leavened by a slightly herbal quality that carries through to the saline, firm finish. Very fresh wine, particularly in light of its high 3.8 pH, and in need of a good four or five years of cellaring.
Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
Medium red. Deep perfume of black cherry and flowers. Dense, tactile and savory; broader-shouldered than the Marechaudes, showing more soil-driven mineral, crushed stone and moist earth character. Deep and quite dry. Not fleshy today but very imploded. Offers excellent potential.
About the Producer
In the ownership of the same family since 1834, the Domaine Chandon de Brailles currently belongs to the Count and Countess Aymard-Claude de Nicolay and their children. The Count inherited it from his grandmother, Countess Chandon de Briailles. François de Nicolay succeeded his mother, with his sister Claude in 2001. He very quickly realized the level of quality of the wines achieved thanks to this method and decided to convert the family domaine. Biodynamics for the domaine is also a growing method that preserves our terrestrial universe and it is durable. Through this method, the domaine passes on to future generations parcels of land that are unpolluted and alive, capable of producing wines of great quality. That is to say: with charm, finesse and great aromatic complexity. The domaine is 13.7 hectares: one-third Savigny, Pernand and Corton. The grapes are partially de-stemmed with the proportion of whole cluster varying from 30 to 50% depending on the vintage. The wines stay on the lees for 12 to 15 months and then it is pushed with inert gas into big tanks for blending where it stays one or two months before bottling
