The Drinks Business
byColin Haythe9/5/2024
(Corton AOC; 100% Pinot Noir; the most southernly-facing of the three Corton climat expressions from Domaine Chapuis, opposite the southern reaches of the Pernand Vergelesses vineyards; 13.5% alcohol; tasted in Paris from a sample directly supplied by the property). Ever so slightly darker in the glass and immediately more powerful and fulsome aromatically, this is gloriously articulate and expressive, with a strikingly pure fresh crushed loganberry and raspberry fruit. Quite ample on the attack, but with grippy and structuring tannins, this might require, just as it will reward, a little more patience than the Languettes climat cuvée.