2012 Coulee de Serrant

Picked over a period of three weeks and in four passages, yielding only 18 hectoliters per hectare, the intensely golden-colored 2012 Clos de la Coulée de Serrant offers a ripe and concentrated stone fruit aroma with pancake, pastry and nutty as well as smoky and flinty notes of crushed shale rocks. With more air, even floral notes get on their way. Although the summer was terribly dry, the 2012 reveals some botrytis influence on both nose and palate, the latter is rich yet fine and elegant, with ripe and smooth acidity but fine tannins giving structure and tension. The wine is already nicely matured, and although it is rich and intense, it doesn't have the dimension and power of the 2019 that I tasted in the same flight. 14% alcohol. Tasted in May 2021.