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2012 Louis Latour Domaine Corton Grand Cru 750 ml

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2012 Louis Latour Corton Grand Cru: “A 20- to 30-Year Ride into the Sunset”

While the huge, 11-hectare swath of Louis-Fabrice Latour’s Corton-Charlemagne vineyard ranks among the most impressive Grand Cru holdings in Burgundy, a much smaller Pinot Noir patch in Grand Cru Corton is the Latour family’s pride and joy.

As you trek up the hillside above the variegated tile roof of Château Corton Grancey, the soils closest to town are rich in clay. But as you climb, sizable chunks of dimpled limestone appear. As in the most sought-after Grand Crus of the Côte de Nuits — Rousseau’s Charmes-Chambertin, Domaine de la Romanée-Conti’s La Tâche, Christophe Roumier’s rich and ethereal Bonnes-Mares — that unique soil mix accounts for both the wild-berry concentration and the electrifying, age-worthy backbone of Louis Latour Corton.

In good vintages, Latour Corton is sweetly perfumed, floral, and finely delineated. In great vintages — and for regisseur Boris Champy, 2012 chez Latour stands shoulder to shoulder with 2010 as the finest of the new millennium. The 2012 Domaine Corton Grand Cru is deep, dark, and richly textured, a red Burgundy that will drink beautifully for the next 12 months before “shutting down,” only to re-emerge sometime in 2018, ready for a 20- to 30-year ride into the Côte de Beaune sunset.

Deep, dark, bright ruby to the edge. Gorgeous aromas of raspberry, framboise liqueur, black cherry, and violets, touched with Asian spice and new-wood cedar. Profoundly concentrated, lush, silken in texture, filled with a juicy mix of crushed black and red fruits — as always with Latour’s Grand Cru, sturdy and bracing on the finish, arguing eloquently for a long stay in a cool cellar.

94 points from Wine Spectator. $85 on release. $64 this morning — as if discounting even matters for Burgundy of this echelon. Shipping included on 4.

This is a pre-arrival offer, shipping directly from the cellar in Burgundy. Weather permitting, orders will be available to ship in January.