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2017 Aloxe-Corton, Les Vercots, 1er Cru, Domaine Follin-Arbelet, Burgundy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Pinot Noir
Ready - at best
Product: 20171031915
2017 Aloxe-Corton, Les Vercots, 1er Cru, Domaine Follin-Arbelet, Burgundy

Description

This wine is currently reduced by 30% as part of our sale. Price shown includes discount and applies to 75cl only. Not applicable to BBX. Promotion valid until midnight 29th August.

Medium ruby in colour, this has a spicy nose which bursts with fruits of the forest. It displays impressive concentration and a firm, but relatively elegant, layered structure that is well wrapped in juicy, succulent red and black berry fruit. The fine, salivating finish is long and persistent. Drink 2022-2026.

After several difficult years, Franck is finally able to smile at having made a nearfull harvest for the first time in many years. He explains the importance of pruning correctly to manage the final yield, which meant that there was no need for green harvesting to drop fruit and no risk of over-cropping. Franck describes the wines as ''flattering and charming, with rounded fruit, silky tannins and a harmonious balance of alcohol and acidity''.

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2017
Maturity Ready - at best
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Medium Bodied
Producer 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.
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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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