Edmond Cornu & Fils Savigny-les-Beaune Rouge 2020

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Edmond Cornu & Fils Savigny-les-Beaune Rouge 2020Pierre refers to this wine as le chat, a nod to its feline grace and silky subtlety. it sees a mere 10% new barrels, and provides a terrific encapsulation of the Cornu house style: deep, ripe, and rugged, with a pronounced element of earth and plenty of spicealbeit on a less structured frame than its brethren from Cornu's more firmly built appellations. The Savigny is supple and generous, with an underlying succulence derived from its vibrant acid

pretty wine of delicately articulated spice and gentle tannins

this 1984—from a difficult

nearly savory sense of minerality that is very Avize

Harmand-Geoffroy owns a bit less than a half-hectare of vineyards in Clos Prieur and the vines therein were planted between 50 and 85 years ago

and the young Saint-Romain provides a stony anchor

we rack the juice and press off the whole cluster lots

slightly downslope

The vineyard borders “Vers Cras” (newly upgraded to Premier Cru) in the commune of Solutré-Pouilly—with an exposition that consistently fares very well in today's warm summers

yet it still possesses admirable grip and a firm undercurrent of smoky

making it well-draining

the vigor of Gamay

Vinification in wood casks with daily punching down for three days

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