The nose is a quite lovely blend of flowers and fruit. In the mouth this is round for Corton, intense and subtly complex – yum.
Dubreuil-Fontaine
2005 Dubreuil-Fontaine Volnay
Dark colour. Concentrated red berry – so much so it’s like a sauce reduction. Clinical, clean lines – very linear but silken. Really good intensity and even an impression of flavour! Despite the note it tasted pretty good. Plenty more left for experimenting with the vintage over the next decade and a half!
2008 Dubreuil-Fontaine Savigny-lès-Beaune Les Vergelesses
2008 Dubreuil-Fontaine Pernand Vergelesses Ile des Vergelesses
2008 Dubreuil-Fontaine Aloxe-Corton Les Vercots
2008 Dubreuil-Fontaine Corton Bressandes
1978 Dubreuil-Fontaine Corton Bressandes
2005 Dubreuil-Fontaine Volnay
This is a very good value wine, not only is it well priced for a villages wine, as we now know it also contains a significant amount of 1er cru grapes from Carelle Sous Chapelle, Les Brouillards and Les Lurets. Double decanted an hour before pouring. Aromatically this is a little mute but there are fresh, high-tones of dark red fruits and fainter, high-toned floral aromas – very fine fruit – and the empty glass smells of rose petals. The last vestiges of fat are melting as the acidity starts to come to the fore – very smooth before a hint of tannin in the back-end. Certainly there’s a really nice depth of fruit with a decent length and a residual hint of sweetness, but here’s a tight wine. With the merest hint of a wince, this is drinkable today, but realistically it is already set for a 10 year-plus sleep – I think I’m lucky that I didn’t meet it earlier – otherwise I might have bought 2 cases!