Domaine Tortochot Morey Saint Denis 2019
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Pinot lovers rejoice! This month we finally have a couple of older wines for both club levels. Domaine Tortochot has a new face in the last decade with Chantal taking over her father's domaine and making vast improvements quickly. She's gone from fully destemmed to about 25% whole cluster on the great lineup of red wines which includes a sliver of Grand Cru Chambertin.
I first tasted this producer with her 2020 Gevrey and was shocked at the elegance extracted (or not extracted?) from such a dark fruited vintage. The 2019 Morey shows a more classic warm vintage character with ripe bing cherry and rhubarb notes that I can't get enough of in red Burgundy. She has also acquired organic certification in the last few years, though it was likely an easier task than for Genot-Boulanger as her holdings are much smaller. It's unclear where this Morey village wine is sourced from exactly, but remember that only top level wines are even allowed to display village names in Burgundy, and Morey itself is a relatively small area of perfectly situated vines in between Gevrey-Chambertin and Chambolle-Musigny both in geography and in style.
For those who haven't had a great red from 2019 yet, a warning that this vintage has an addictive quality and so far it hasn't seemed to slump into a "dumb" phase at all as they begin to show some age.
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Burgundy, in eastern France, encompasses several subregions, but it is the Côte d'Or that is home to many of the world's most expensive and revered wines. The region, primarily a single east-facing slope, has mixed limestone soils that vary dramatically from village to village and even vineyard to vineyard. White wines, crafted from Chardonnay, range from rich and opulent to lean and intensely mineral, while Pinot Noir produces silky, perfumed red wines of exceptional finesse and complexity. Centuries of winemaking tradition have resulted in every plot being meticulously recognized and scrutinized, making the Côte d'Or a true capital of terroir.
Burgundy - Cote d'Or
Pinot Noir is a thin-skinned, notoriously difficult-to-grow, low-yielding grape that finds its ancestral home in Burgundy, France, where it produces some of the world's most elegant and nuanced wines. While Burgundy remains its spiritual heartland, Pinot Noir has since traveled the globe, finding success in other cooler climates, notably in California, Oregon, New Zealand, and Germany. This grape is a challenge for any grower, as it requires specific conditions to show its best, and yet the wines it produces are capable of such a captivating and singular character.
