CORTON GRAND CRU WHITE WINE 2017 (Domaine Maillard)
BOURGOGNE - AOP CORTON GRAND CRU - DRY WHITE WINE
Grape variety: Chardonnay (100%)
Ageing in 228-liter oak barrels for 12 to 18 months with stirring
- Color: golden wheat-colored.
- Nose: powerful and fragrant. Notes of tangerine, pink grapefruit, roasted almonds, acacia flowers.
- Palate: ample and intensely perfumed. Long finish on lemon and verbena.
Tasting date: July 2019
OUR OPINION: what a power! magnificent!
Other vintage available:
TERROIR
The Grands Crus vineyards cover the best part of the famous hillside between 215 and 350m in altitude, with an exposure that varies from south-east at the Ladoix end to north-west at the Pernand end. These slopes are very favourable for vines because of the large marl outcrops found at mid-slope.
The Chardonnay vines of the Domaine Maillard that give birth to this white Corton Grand Cru are located in the area known as Les Renardes. This terroir, which also produces the red Corton wines, is made up of a layer of yellow or red nodular limestone containing ferruginous oolite and fragments of ammonites from the Oxfordian, a geological stage of the Upper Jurassic (-161 to -155 My).
In the upper part of the hillside, there are about fifteen metres of grey-brown or pink sandstone-marl limestone, in small banks with a few crinoids (fossils of marine animals resembling plants) and cherts (siliceous concretions present in certain limestones).
WINEGROWING & WINEMAKING
The grapes are harvested by hand and the bunches are sorted so as to keep only the best. They are then pressed slowly by pneumatic pressing at low pressure.
The juice is put in vats for a few hours of settling, then it is racked into barrels for alcoholic and malolactic fermentation. Once these are complete, the must is racked into 228 litre Burgundy barrels, with a small proportion of new barrels, to be matured for 12 to 18 months.
During this period, stirring operations are carried out in order to put the fine lees back into suspension in the must and give the wine roundness.
Once the maturation is finished, the must is racked, fined and then lightly filtered before bottling.
| Country | Burgundy |
| Color | White |
| Type | Dry |
| Classification | Grand Cru |
| Vintage | 2017 |
| Capacity | 75 cl |
| Single Grape Variety | Chardonnay |
| Alcohol rate | 13 % |
| Quality Designation | Corton Grand Cru |
| Cellar Potential | 10 years |
| Service advise | 15°C (59°F) |
| Culture Methods | Traditional |
| Comments | Fermentation in oak barrels ♦ Ageing in 228l barrels with stirring for 12 up to 18 months. |
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