2012 Romanée-St Vivant, Grand Cru, Domaine Follin-Arbelet, Burgundy
- Red
- Dry
- Medium Bodied
- Pinot Noir
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Product: 20121031960
Description
Franck follin-arbelet's Romanée-St Vivant, Grand Cru was hard to taste because the malolactic fermentation was still in full swing. One can still pick out the dense purple colour, and a feeling of massive concentration on the palate.
Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Wine Director
Franck Follin-Arbelet’s domaine, based in Aloxe-Corton, makes its first appearance in our 2012 En Primeur offer. He doesn’t own many vineyards, and they aren’t in the trendiest part of the Côte, but he makes sublime wines in a very pure, understated style. As a child Franck spent holidays in the village, then worked part-time in the vineyards, in due course marrying a local girl whose family had some vineyards – enough for Franck to set up as a vigneron in 1993, subsequently adding further vines through rental agreements. Overall his 2012 crop was down by 30% to 50%.
Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Wine Director
Franck Follin-Arbelet’s domaine, based in Aloxe-Corton, makes its first appearance in our 2012 En Primeur offer. He doesn’t own many vineyards, and they aren’t in the trendiest part of the Côte, but he makes sublime wines in a very pure, understated style. As a child Franck spent holidays in the village, then worked part-time in the vineyards, in due course marrying a local girl whose family had some vineyards – enough for Franck to set up as a vigneron in 1993, subsequently adding further vines through rental agreements. Overall his 2012 crop was down by 30% to 50%.
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2012
Alcohol % 13.5
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Medium Bodied
Property Domaine Follin-Arbelet
About this wine
Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy's Côte d'Or. Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of the Côte d`Or.
Domaine Follin-Arbelet
Franck’s ancestors owned vineyards in Aloxe-Corton, which they sold off towards the end of the 19th century. As a child, he spent holidays in the village, working part-time in the vineyards and, in due course, marrying a local girl, Christine. Her family had some vines – enough for Franck to set up as a vigneron in 1993, subsequently adding further vines through rental agreements. In 2017, Franck was joined at the domaine by his son, Simon. In the vineyard Franck favours the most simple and natural form of farming possible. The grapes are entirely destemmed, vinified in wooden vats for about two weeks. The wines are aged for 18 months in barrel, initially with 20 to 25 per cent new wood before racking into older casks after 12 months.
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