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2012 Fixin, Clos de la Perrière, 1er Cru, Domaine Joliet, Burgundy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Pinot Noir
Ready - at best
Neal Martin MW
88/100
Product: 20128009229
2012 Fixin, Clos de la Perrière, 1er Cru, Domaine Joliet, Burgundy

Description

This has a very elegant, fresh raspberry nose with a touch of strawberry behind. Cherries come into the picture too on the palate, then the lovely spicy, sherbet-y finish from the stems. This is a fascinating, complex wine with some sensual touches to it. We expect it to age well.
Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Wine Director

Bénigne Joliet presides over one of Burgundy’s most fascinating properties, the Clos de la Perrière, first established by the monks of Cîteaux in 1142. The impressive Manoir has over four hectares of this Monopole under vine, with different vine age (up to 85 years), exposures and soils bringing complexity. Bénigne uses 20% whole bunches and 15% new barrels, with a relatively long maturation period, in order to avoid the rustic aspects of some Fixin wines.
 



Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2012
Maturity Ready - at best
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Domaine Joliet

Critics reviews

Neal Martin MW 88/100
The 2012 Fixin 1er Cru Clos de la Perriere, a monopole belonging to the domaine who approach the terroir in similar fashion to say, Clos de Tart by approaching the vineyard by parcel and individual terroir, includes 20% whole cluster fruit. It has a tightly wound bouquet with tertiary brambly red berry fruit with touches of mint and sous-bois. The palate is medium-bodied with quite rustic tannins, but there is a swagger about this Fixin, with good depth and gentle grip on the masculine finish. Fine.Neil Martin - 27/02/2014
Neal Martin MW, (Feb 2014)

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.
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Domaine Joliet

There are certain vineyard sites up and down the Côte d’Or in Burgundy which have been recognised for centuries as being outstanding locations. The monks were usually the first to spot the potential and to stake a claim. One such is the Clos de la Perrière in Fixin, just north of Gevrey-Chambertin, founded by the monks of Cîteaux in the early 12th century. The Joliet family purchased the Manoir de la Perrière and its attendant vines in 1853. Bénigne, who has bought out other family members so as to be able to run the domaine as he wants to do it, is the 6th generation of the family. He has moved towards organic farming in the vineyards, reduced yields and developed a style of vinification and barrel maturation to suit this vineyard. From the 2009 vintage the wines are aged for 24 months in barrels, half one year old and half two year old. Various early wine authorities in the 19th century singled out Clos de la Perrière as an exceptional vineyard, Dr Lavalle (1855) noting it as a Tête de Cuvée making wines which kept for longer than any others of the Côte d’Or. Though attempts to have it classified as Perrière-Chambertin in the 1930s failed, Bénigne is about to start work on a dossier to propose Clos de la Perrière as a grand cru now. Up to 10,000 bottles are made each vintage, with young vines being declassified into village Fixin. There is a small amount of white made as well from the coolest part of the vineyard.
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