CORTON RENARDES
2017 Grand Cru Thibault Liger-Belair
| Grapes | Pinot Noir |
| Colour | Red |
| Origin | France, Burgundy |
| District | C么te d'Or |
| Sub-district | C么te de Beaune |
| Village | Aloxe Corton |
| Classification | Grand Cru |
| ABV | 13.5% |
| Vineyard | Corton Renardes |
Thibault has 2 parcels here; 1 is higher up the hill with really deep soils. The combination, Thibault explains, adds real complexity. He has included 40% Whole bunch too, to add some lift, despite the limestone soils which already influence the clean sweeping feel. Sweet attack. Fruit is poised but ripe. Remains light on its toes - rich not thick - but sweet and with easy flow - it is good. About a third new oak. Drinking range: 2021 - 2029 L&S (Nov 2018)
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The 2017 Corton-Renardes Grand Cru feels modern in style and a little oaky, with a mocha-like note on the nose, although there is sufficient fruit behind the oak, and it should be subsumed with time in bottle. The fleshy palate is medium-bodied with sweet tannins and black cherry and sous-bois notes. Very sleek, but the winemaking impedes too much and occludes the terroir. Tasted blind at the Burgfest 2017 tasting. Drinking range: 2023 - 2035 Rating: 88 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Jan 2022)
This also is reductive with a slight dill pickle character, underneath which there appears to be a wealth of fruit. The wine changes in the glass, taking on significantly more depth. In fact, this becomes spectacular with a major weight of fruit, defining the back and a superb finish. Ripe cherries with a briary note. Rating: 93 Jasper Morris - Inside Burgundy (Sept 2021)
(40% whole cluster but without the central stem). Notes of reduction and wood are all that are discernible today. By contrast there is more volume and mid-palate density as well as more minerality and muscle to the broad-shouldered flavors that conclude in a velvety and firm but not especially austere finish. Drinking range: 2029 - Rating: 90-93 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Jan 2019)
Thibault Liger-Belair Successeurs
The lack of the word 'domaine' in the name signals that this is a n茅gociant wine from Thibault Liger-Belair. On the whole Thibault buys grapes having tended the vines with his own team, so that the wines are domaine wines in all but name.
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