Tasted in Beaune with David Croix, 13 December 2022.
Domaine des Croix
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21200 Beaune
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David on 2022:
2022 for me is like a combination of 2017 with 2020 – the density of the latter but the lack of plant stress of the 2017s – so more open fruit. We have lots of intensity and colour as it was almost a month later harvesting. I don’t want to make classic wines in a not classic vintage – so I didn’t pick at 12.5° – so it’s more than 13° – but none of the wines were acidified and I’m happy with the balance. We started a little later than some but picked everything in 6 days. The volume wasn’t so high – just 10% more than 21 – as we weren’t frosted that much in 2021 – so there was nothing for the vines to compensate for. The June rain made all the difference – 2.5x more than the average. The fruit is healthy and what I like the most is the intensity, the brightness and the energy that the fruit currently brings.”
The wines…
Maybe fewer ‘great wines’ in 2022 – at least on this viewing – but here is class – like every year…
2022 Beaune
That’s very aromatic. I do sense the new foudre but it’s not too bad. Broad and with fine clarity – it’s a super villages.
2022 Aloxe-Corton Boutières
Rounder, silker, fuller with pretty red fruits. The structure is more visible but so is the balancing juicy energy from this fruit – broad in the middle and floral in the finish. Simply delicious…
This mainly went into David’s Bourgogne in previous years – but he’s now happy enough to let it stand on its own
A beautiful nose – so floral perfumed – what an invitation! Broad, complex, intense, ultra fragrant – delicious wine. Almost too much flower but wait 5 years I think it will be great!
2022 Beaune 1er Cent Vignes
The same style of aromatic as the Savigny but with a little more fruit to cut the aromas. Incisive, fluid, mobile – hyper-complex, delicious wine – also a lot of florals but just a hint more balanced with the fruit today – and of course you should wait! Extra length too!
Those were all the non-limestone sites with 35-55% wc apart from the single barrel of Savigny with 100% and the Aloxe with none.
Ultra floral wc again but with such finesse, Beautiful Savigny, so fluid, so complex – great Savigny – so few words needed!
2022 Beaune 1er Tuvilains
Ex Champy via some Paris investors… there was also some in 2016 – almost – which went into the generic 1er. 80-year-old vines
A fuller, quite deeper nose. Larger, more architectural. Very slowly fading – simply super but keep it for at least 5 years in the cellar!
2022 Beaune 1er Bressandes
The nicest aromatic so far in terms of volume and balance between the fruit and flowers. The sweetest fruit too – not too sweet – but it’s more overt. So, a wine of sucrosity but fine, mouth-watering flavour and clarity to the fruit. Keep the faith – wait 5+ years!!
A cool area, with shallow topsoil closer to Pommard.
Narrower, deeper but still with great high tones – vertical! Much broader – there’s some architecture here too. The most vivid finishing fruit yet, certainly still with lots of floral character – what a wine – grand cru level of finishing persistence!
2022 Beaune 1er Grèves
It needs racking – another day…
Hmm, that’s such a beautiful nose – the best yet! Hmm, perfect shape and depth. The texture is that of velour. Reall power here and a more mineral finish. Not for today but great wine!
2022 Corton Grèves
Wonderful complexity but this nose remains much quieter, smaller and restrained. Hmm, more cushion – still only a couple of mm – but a fuller wine – I prefer the more open visibility of the structure of ‘Saint’ but this is a very impressive wine – the first with some real finishing bitters.
Et les whites:
2022 Corton-Charlemagne
There’s a little structure to this nose – a rigour – but lots of depth. Hmm, that is nicely melting over the palate – it’s a little round. And the rigour of the nose is visible in the flavours. There’s a second winter in wineglobe to come – I’ll be really interested to see how this changes in that time.