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Confuron Cotetidot, Charmes Chambertin Grand Cru 2015
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Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
(100% real Charmes): Saturated medium ruby. The nose exudes incredible perfume for such a ripe year, offering scents of blackberry, licorice, lilac, violet, rose petal and leather, plus a slightly exotic suggestion of fruit salad. Boasts similar flavors in the mouth, offering uncanny liqueur-like ripeness leavened by terrific lift. This wonderfully sweet, slightly wild wine displays explosive silky fruit and great juicy depth. Really drenches the palate in flavor on the very broad, resounding finish, with the tannins virtually invisible today. When Yves Confuron wondered out loud if some of the 2015s could turn out to be like '47s, he might well have had this wine in mind. A stunning showing.
Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
(100% real Charmes): Saturated medium ruby. The nose exudes incredible perfume for such a ripe year, offering scents of blackberry, licorice, lilac, violet, rose petal and leather, plus a slightly exotic suggestion of fruit salad. Boasts similar flavors in the mouth, offering uncanny liqueur-like ripeness leavened by terrific lift. This wonderfully sweet, slightly wild wine displays explosive silky fruit and great juicy depth. Really drenches the palate in flavor on the very broad, resounding finish, with the tannins virtually invisible today. When Yves Confuron wondered out loud if some of the 2015s could turn out to be like '47s, he might well have had this wine in mind. A stunning showing.
About the Producer
Domaine Confuron-Cotetidot born in 1964, in Burgundy, in the beautiful Côte de Nuits, the union of two important families in the world of viticulture in Burgundy. The Confuron family, in particular has a wine tradition since the seventeenth century and about a pinot noir strain it even bears the name and is in fact known as pinot-Confuron. The winery is located in Vosne-Romanèe and includes some of the most prestigious vineyards of Burgundy, with about 11 hectares of its own vineyards, including Grand Cru, Premier Cru and Village. In the vineyard work it is done using traditional methods and respectful towards the environment and plants, favoring low yields and harvests made exclusively in the maximum maturity of the grapes stage. In the handicraft and traditional cellar of the Domaine, Yves Confuron and his brother Jean-Pierre, the owners and winemakers, not diraspano grapes and practice a long maceration, a few pressing and for aging that will take 18 to 24 months, using wood, primarily 2nd and 3rd passage. The wines are not filtered and end the aging in bottle. Resulting mature red, intense and elegant, extremely long-lived and by the extraordinary drink, that express faithfully the terroir of belonging.
