2012 Domaine des Heritiers Louis Jadot, Corton Grand Cru, Les Pougets 1x750ml

Vinous 92+

(13.6% alcohol; 3.45 pH; 3.94 g/l acidity; from a yield of around 30 h/h, reduced by millerandage): Moderately saturated medium red. Quite tight and closed on the nose, hinting at medicinal dark red fruits, minerals and licorice. A distinctly powerful wine with a serious spine; quite imploded today and not showing the fleshiness or pliancy of texture of the 2015 bottling. This penetrating but sullen wine finishes with a repeating brooding medicinal quality and serious palate-saturating tannins that come off as a tad dry today. Barnier told me that 2012 was a vintage with "hard skins," and that the wines show "a certain rusticity owing to the thick skins and lack of juice." This struck me as rather uncompromisingly dry at the vertical tasting and not much fun for the time being. Like so many 2012 reds, it has also shut down since the bottling. [Stephen Tanzer, 05/02/2019]

Anticipated maturity: 2024-2040

Robert Parker 92

Tasted blind at the annual "Burgfest" tasting in Beaune. The 2012 Corton Pougets Grand Cru from Louis Jadot has a dark and broody bouquet, and yet it is well defined with subtle marine notes filtering through with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin, the acidity well judged leading to a structured, quite masculine, almost Pommard-like finish that has good sustain. This is a well crafted Corton with plenty of matiere, though I would be inclined to leave it for three or four years. [Neal Martin, 28/09/2017]

Anticipated maturity: 2018-2032