2005 Corton Bressandes
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Deep red-ruby. Expressive aromas of blueberry, black cherry and smoke. Spicy and stylish in the mouth, with lovely mineral lift. This is much more accessible than the Santenots, but then this wine finished its malolactic fermentation earlier and got an earlier bottling, in March of 2007. Vibrant and precise, and less thick and tannic than a lot of 2005s. Very expressive, sexy wine, finishing with sweet tannins and excellent breadth. Today this is much fruitier than the young 2006.
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David Schildknecht, Vinous
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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The Prieur 2005 Corton Bressandes exudes intensely ripe blackberry and cassis just like its Clos des Santenots stablemate, but offers additional suggestions of mineral as well as distinctively animal notes. Admirably bright and sweet, it truly stains the palate. Even with the influx in its finish of meat and stony mineral underpinnings, this remains a very flashy, irrepressibly sweetly-fruited style of Corton, with new wood playing a supporting but not obtrusive role. Prieur (and Rodet) oenologist Nadine Gublin vinified two lots of Clos Vougeot – one de-stemmed and one whole cluster (a method she thinks is particularly suited to the relatively clay-rich terroir of the Clos) – before blending them back again to enhance complexity. Nearly all bottlings from this negociant – on an upward path since the influx of Rodet capital in the early ‘90s – in fact originate in the Domaine Jacques Prieur. Martin Prieur and his team have striven to capture purity of fruit through gentle extraction, although for my taste I found some of their 2005s overly confectionary due to the influence of toasty new wood on already very sweetly ripe raw material. After malo – which was generally quite late here this year – the wines were sulfured but not yet racked. Importer: Frederick Wildman & Sons, New York, NY; tel. (212) 355-0700.
Deep, bright ruby. Smoky black fruits complicated by earth, mocha and game; very Corton. Broad, lush and rich, combining a lovely sweetness and strong underlying structure. Not yet particularly differentiated; this is more a wall of fruit today. Very rich and pliant but less classy and vibrant than the Volnays. This needs a racking and a relatively early bottling.
The Prieur 2005 Corton Bressandes exudes intensely ripe blackberry and cassis just like its Clos des Santenots stablemate, but offers additional suggestions of mineral as well as distinctively animal notes. Admirably bright and sweet, it truly stains the palate. Even with the influx in its finish of meat and stony mineral underpinnings, this remains a very flashy, irrepressibly sweetly-fruited style of Corton, with new wood playing a supporting but not obtrusive role. Prieur (and Rodet) oenologist Nadine Gublin vinified two lots of Clos Vougeot – one de-stemmed and one whole cluster (a method she thinks is particularly suited to the relatively clay-rich terroir of the Clos) – before blending them back again to enhance complexity. Jun 2007, www.robertparker.com