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Savigny-les-Beaune Premier Cru Les Charnières Domaine Cornu-Camus 2019

Savigny-les-Beaune Premier Cru Les Charnières Domaine Cornu-Camus 2019

This super-elegant Pinot Noir comes from a tiny parcel of 60-year-old vines in “Les Charnières,” one of the smallest of the Premiers Crus of Savigny-lès-Beaune, located just below Les Talmettes, and surrounded on three sides by Les Lavières (where Michel Ampeau has beautiful vines of his own). In a good large Burgundy glass, the wine has a gleaming dark carmine red color, almost opaque in the center, and saturated right to the edge. Aromas of sun-warmed red plums, black raspberries, strawberry preserves, and fresh rose petals move in and out of the foreground, sometimes alternating with fleeting suggestions of dried autumn leaves, jasmine tea, fresh potting soil, and bittersweet chocolate as the nose evolves over time. On entry, the wine has an opulent round mouthfeel, with a dense core of mostly black fruit that echoes the nose, along with insistent suggestions of orange zest, allspice, and freshly ground roasted coffee as the flavors unfurl like a peacock’s tail, and the wine puts on weight in the glass. Drink now – 2035 and beyond.

About this wine producer: Classic, real-world-priced, estate-bottled Burgundy is always a happy surprise. The land is expensive, the climate is unreliable, and demand usually exceeds supply. But if you’re willing to look beyond the famous villages on the Route des Grands Crus, there are still discoveries to be made: expressive Burgundies, white and red, grown by passionate stewards of the genuine Burgundian tradition. The Cornu family has lived in Echevronne, about seven kilometers northwest of Beaune, since the thirteenth century. Pierre Cornu joined his parents in the late 1970s, and like so many of the best of his generation, was the first in his family to estate-bottle the wine. In 1981 he married Bernadette Camus, and in 2007, after completing her studies in enology at Beaune, their daughter Lydia, along with her husband Christophe Pertuzot (previously of Domaine Leroy), joined them as co-gerants, ensuring the continuity of this dynamic ten-hectare estate.

$39.00

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