Tasting Notes
Neal Martin 90
The 2015 Corton-Bressandes Grand Cru includes 100% whole bunches, but there was only half the crop in this year. It was the last vintage using a pneumatic press, which I feel shapes this wine. This has a well-defined nose that is just exiting the primary stage, secondary notes of undergrowth and leather beginning to suffuse the red berry fruit. The palate is medium-bodied with quite grippy tannins, very smooth, almost lactic in texture with a dab of dark chocolate towards the finish. Not bad, although I prefer more recent vintages from the estate.
Anticipated maturity: 2027-2042
Vinous 92+
(bottled in June of 2017): Healthy bright ruby-red. Blacker and tighter on the nose than the Savigny-lès-Beaune Les Lavières, conveying a hint of torrefaction. Quite youthfully imploded and backward, with its medicinal kirsch and dark chocolate flavors showing terrific depth of texture but little early sweetness. Today this very dense wine is dominated by its huge toothdusting tannins. It doesn’t offer the fruit element of the 2016 in the early going and will require serious cellaring.
Anticipated maturity: 2027-2038
Wine Advocate 95
“The 2015 Corton Bressandes Grand Cru is superb, soaring from the glass with a stunningly complex bouquet of cassis, plums, tar, black truffle, dark chocolate and rich spices. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, powerful and dramatic, with a lavish, layered attack; a massively deep, concentrated and multidimensional mid-palate; and an ample chassis of fine-grained, velvety tannins that assert themselves on the youthfully chewy finish. This Corton Bressandes’ sheer scale will demand a decade of cellaring, but this wine exemplifies just what was possible on the hill of Corton in the 2015 vintage.”
Anticipated maturity: 2025-2060
