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6 notes

2015

Domaine Michel Mallard & Fils Corton-Les Renardes

Côte de Beaune · Corton Grand Cru

My notes from April 2020 still generally apply. Ripe black cherry, raspberry, spice, smoke, and forest floor notes make for a beautifully darker and deeper pitched profile. Exquisite balance. There…

Reviewed 5 November 2022
2016

P. Dubreuil-Fontaine Père & Fils Corton-Clos du Roi

Côte de Beaune · Corton Grand Cru

A similar showing to last year's bottle, with an initially cagey but alluring display of red cranberry, red currant, and dusty spice notes slowly skulking out of the back alley and cautiously…

Reviewed 14 December 2021
2016

P. Dubreuil-Fontaine Père & Fils Corton-Clos du Roi

Côte de Beaune · Corton Grand Cru

At first pass, the 2016 Dubreuil-Fontaine exhibits a decidedly attenuated and tempered conveyance of lightly spiced cranberry and black and red cherry flavors. It first fools its host into the belief…

Reviewed 10 December 2020
2017

Domaine Parent Corton-Renardes

Côte de Beaune · Corton Grand Cru

Red and Black cherry, cranberry, plum skin, Asian spices, cinnamon stick, burnt orange zest, coffee bean, bitter bark and edible flowers, and dry twig dust. With air, this becomes deeper and…

Reviewed 4 October 2020
2015

Domaine Michel Mallard & Fils Corton-Rognet

Côte de Beaune · Corton Grand Cru

Compacted black cherry, Asian spice, pine needle, and faint earth notes make a serious and slightly linear delivery with the Rognet. More academic and less succulent than its more giving and…

Reviewed 13 July 2020
2015

Domaine Michel Mallard & Fils Corton-Les Renardes

Côte de Beaune · Corton Grand Cru

A succulent black cherry and wild berry core is flanked by a gorgeous array of spices and subtle forest floor notes. Youthfully driven but surprisingly accessible and unctuous, with a flavor…

Reviewed 25 April 2020