An ethereal red, offering aromas and flavors of rose, peony, wild strawberry, cherry, sandalwood, stone and toasty oak. Sleek and silky, with beautifully integrated tannins and a complex, well-delineated aftertaste. Best from 2027 through 2042. - Bruce Sanderson
Corton “Clos du Roi” Grand Cru Reviews
A wonderfully spicy broad-ranging nose features pure notes of wild red currant, leather, earth and a hint of wood influence. The delicious, vibrant and muscular medium weight plus flavors possess a beguiling mid-palate texture while exuding a subtle bead of minerality on the balanced, lingering and youthfully austere finale. This is excellent though a wine destined for long-term keeping.
The 2020 Corton Clos du Roi Grand Cru contains 100% whole bunch this year. I appreciate the aromatics here - well-defined, fragrant and quite floral, there offers fine mineralité and tension. The palate is mediumbodied with supple tannins, very harmonious with a bead of acidity that lends finesse and elegant towads the finish. This is clever winemaking and a successful Corton. Excellent.
Healthy medium red. Subtle aromas of redcurrant, spices and earth, plus a hint of smoke. A supple, sweet, attractive midweight without any edges. Intense red fruits and dusty brown spices carry very well through the fine-grained finish. Suavely tannic for Corton, this wine should have very good staying power in the bottle. -- Stephen Tanzer
A discreet application of wood easily allows the fresh, earthy, herbal tea and sauvage-scented nose of red and dark pinot fruit. As one would expect the big-bodied flavors are markedly bigger and more powerful with excellent mid-palate concentration on the beautifully long and mouth coating finish. This is not particularly complex at present but there is so much development potential in evidence that much more should develop with time in bottle.
The 2014 Corton Clos du Roi Grand Cru has a rather conservative, straightlaced bouquet, subtle tertiary notes keeping a tab on the red berry fruit. The palate is medium-bodied with a pleasant juiciness on the entry. There is still a bit of oak to be absorbed but there is fine matière on the finish that lingers nicely in the mouth. It is a wine that needs to shake of its infant shackles, spread its wings a bit.
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There are background touches of wood spice adding breadth to the floral,and exceptionally ripe mix of various red berries,
earth and subtle sauvage hints that include a note of prune. The overtly powerful and big-bodied flavors possess fine
mid-palate density as there is an abundance of dry extract that helps to buffer the very firm tannic spine on the
succulent and mouth coating finish. This is very Corton in the sense that it’s a big and powerful wine but at present it seems
to lack a bit of vibrancy and the note of prune on the nose is never an encouraging sign. My score offers the benefit of the
doubt that the freshness will pick up with a few years of bottle age in the same fashion as have a number of 2003s and 2009s.
A markedly floral nose features notes of spice, game, smoke, anise, wood and pure essence of
red berry fruit. The rich, powerful and imposingly-scaled flavors exude plenty of minerality on the muscular, intense and
complex finish that isn’t really rustic though the supporting tannins are right at the margin of being fully ripe. I suspect that this
will harmonize acceptably well if given a few years but my suggested drinking window is shorter than it would normally be as
the balance isn’t perfect.
Good bright red. Ripe, sexy, slightly liqueur-like red fruits complicated by smoke and minerals. At once silky and penetrating, delivering excellent depth to its flavors of raspberry, game and earth. Finishes saline and reserved, with excellent cut and subtle length.