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2016 Domaine Louis Latour, Corton Grand Cru, Chateau Grancey
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Why We're Buying
Wine lovers save space in their cellars for Louis Latour Corton Grancey for two reasons: the terroir and winemaking. Locals have known about Corton hill’s remarkable terroir for more than a millennium. Its perfect orientation combined with marl and limestone soil yields grand cru caliber fruits. Second, Grancey’s pinot noir is a unique blend of four areas and only made in the best vintages. From there, the estate only uses the best barrels to create this wine. The 2016 vintage shows well in youth, but offers an even more promising future. Dense layers of red cherries, wild strawberries, black currants, spice, wood, and earthiness form a tantalizing center, while polished tannins contribute to a refined mouthfeel. All the components of 2016 Louis Latour Corton Grancey are in the right place. Like first-time parents on a night out, this pinot noir just needs some time to unwind. The Final Sip: 2016 Louis Latour Corton Grancey screams investment-worthy with its historic terroir, unique winemaking, and positive critic scores.
Critics Scores
James Suckling
Love the depth of fruit and intensity of this wine. It has dark fruit and floral undertones, as well as meat, which is very captivating. Full body, purity of fruit and nice, powerful tannins. Chewy and powerful. Focused austerity. A wine for the cellar. Try in 2022
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2016 Château Corton-Grancey Grand Cru is showing very well from bottle, unfurling in the glass with a youthfully tight-knit bouquet of plums, cassis, subtle spices and incipient hints of forest floor. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, deep and concentrated, with tangy acids, fine but firm structuring tannins and a long, expansive finish. Attractively complete and built for the cellar, this will reward bottle age
Decanter
The Corton Grancey is the pinnacle of Latour’s Corton range this year, opening with a complex bouquet of black fruit, forest floor, orange zest and a framing of cedary new oak. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, with a chassis of chalky tannins, underpinned by fresh, tense acids, and revealing excellent concentration and depth. Drinking Window 2025 - 2045.
Allen Meadows - Burghound
Moderate reduction and wood toast make for a very pungent nose. Otherwise there is excellent volume to the relatively refined mouth feel thanks to the dense but fine tannins shaping the youthfully austere, complex and impressively persistent finish. This will clearly need at least some bottle age as it's very firm at present.