CORTON LE ROGNET
GRAND CRU

Colour: Dark purple.

Nose: In the youth, the nose suggests ripe fruits (blackcurrant, blueberry) which evolve through notes of spices, leather and undergrowth.

Palate: A well structured wine, powerful with beautiful intense aromas.

Best served at 14-16°C. (57-60°F.).

Corton is a wine for laying down. It benefits from remaining in the cellar for at least 5 years, and can be kept for 10 to 20 years.

Appellation Grand Cru of the Côte de Beaune. The Hill of Corton lies in the midst of a cluster of famous wine-growing villages - Ladoix-Serrigny, Aloxe-Corton, Pernand-Vergelesses and Savigny-lès-Beaune - with, to the North, the southern end of the Côte de Nuits where vineyards mingle with stone quarries (Comblanchien limestone). The vineyards lie at heights of 250-330 metres and form a kind of amphitheater not found elsewhere in the Côte.

The Rognet is located in the village of Ladoix-Serrigny, it was formerly part of Corton, like its neighbor Le Corton in Aloxe-Corton. Rogner in french means “to cut something off at the edges in order to rectify its shape”. This is what happened to this plot whose edges were rectified so that it would no longer be in Le Corton d'Aloxe-Corton.

Grapes are hand-picked, passed over a sorting table, crushed, de-stemmed then fermented for about 18 days with 2 cap-punching and 2 pumping over per day and then aged for about 18 months.