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2019 Louis Latour Chateau Corton Grancey Grand Cru Burgundy 750 ml

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Brilliance from the Hill of Corton

Latour makes their Château Corton Grancey Grand Cru from five of the finest southeast-facing Grand Cru vineyards—Bressandes, Perrières, Grèves, Clos du Roi, and Chaumes. The grapes are hand-harvested and walked (or slowly driven) to Château Corton Grancey, Latour’s home base, which is truly a stone’s throw from these sites. 

You can’t believe the hallowed cellars at Château Corton Grancey until you’re there. The Château is an old cellar built into the Hill of Corton, and has been in the Latour family since 1891. A long driveway flanked by ancient stone terraces and vines leads to the stunning 18th-Century château. 

As you make your way through the building’s imposing barn doors, you pass a simple tasting room for the family (Grancey is not open to the public) and continue on deep into the rock of the Hill of Corton, where chunks of limestone the size of end tables jut out of the cellar walls.   

Descending the spiral stone staircases, the ceilings are low as you enter the endless barrel cellars and caves. Here, Louis Latour stores and ages some of their most precious bottles, including the Romanée-Saint-Vivant Les Quatre Journaux Grand Cru and vintages of Corton going back to 1898. 

Outside, the slope is gentle, and from Grancey, you’re already midway up the Hill of Corton. Walk north through the vines of Corton Clos du Roi, then along a limestone hillside, and you’re at the revered Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru. When you look south back at Grancey, you can see all five Grand Cru sites that delivered grapes to the old cellar, where the Corton Grancey wine is fermented, aged, and bottled.