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Bourgogne Hautes Côtes de Beaune Domaine Cornu-Camus 2020

Bourgogne Hautes Côtes de Beaune Domaine Cornu-Camus 2020

Once again, use a good large glass. This saturated, nearly black cherry red Bourgogne Hautes-Côtes de Beaune is another perfect example of a wine that puts on weight over time in a good glass, and a lesson in how persistence of flavors can be so much more engaging than obvious size of flavors. Aromas of sun-warmed griotte cherries, black raspberries, pomegranate, and jasmine tea move in and out of the foreground, sometimes alternating with fleeting suggestions of sandalwood, dark cocoa, fresh potting soil, and a fleeting suggestion of liturgical incense as the nose evolves in the glass. On the palate, the wine is pure crushed velvet, savory and wild, with an unexpectedly generous core of brambly dark berries, lavender, and dark cocoa that gradually unfurls like a peacock’s tail. And if you give it a few minutes in the glass, the fresh hay and sous bois that perfume the warm summer breezes in the Hautes Côtes take over. Drink now–2030.

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.

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Dani would like - smoke and tannins

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