2020 Corton Les Renardes
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The 2020 Corton Les Renardes Grand Cru has an understated nose, well-defined with brambly red fruit, rose petals and light sous-bois scents. The oak is nicely integrated. The palate is medium-bodied with crunchy red fruit, slightly bitter in the mouth, missing just a little weight at the back end, though I appreciate the lingering peppery, leafy aftertaste. Give this a year in bottle. Tasted blind at the Burgfest tasting.
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The 2020 Corton Les Renardes Grand Cru is superb, bursting with aromas of cherries, red berries, sweet spices, bergamot and peonies. Full-bodied, velvety and seamless, it's layered and vibrant, with a deep core of fruit that almost entirely conceals its structuring chassis of ripe, powdery tannin, concluding with a long, saline finish.
The 2020 Corton Les Renardes Grand Cru showed just a little reduction on the nose, but opens with aeration to reveal vivacious red fruit, dessicated orange peel and floral scents, more exuberance than the Les Maréchaudes. The palate is medium-bodied with filigree tannins. Lovely symmetry and poise from start to finish with a precise and quite persistent finish. Superb.