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Domaine Tollot-Beaut Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru(1999)
- Winery:
- Domaine Tollot-Beaut
- Varietal:
- Region:
- France > Burgundy
- Type:
- White Wine
- User Tags:
- red, corton, burgundy, hay, dried, white, acidic, finish - long, balance, lenoir grape
- Burghound
- Aug 26, 2001
- 91/100
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May 2008
- Tollot-Beaut has always fashioned one of my favorite examples of Corton-Charlemagne with their dazzlingly elegant, crisp, pure, extremely mineral style and this '99 is a textbook example. Wonderfully penetrating and seemingly able to carry its 14.5% alcohol without effort. While this is somewhat fat and robust, indeed even quite masculine in character, there is more than enough balancing acidity that carries nicely into the long, impressively persistent finish. A first rate '99 Corton-Charlemagne.
- Burghound
- Issue 3, Jul 01, 2001
- 90/100
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May 2008
- Note: the review of the Tollot-Beaut 99 reds was inadvertently omitted from Issue 2 and it is included here together with their 99 whites and two 98 reds. I met with Nathalie Tollot who opined that the Domaine's 99 reds were the finest they had seen since 1947. The crop came in with small berries and thick skins with total yields equivalent to 1996. She also noted that the Domaine applied for a PLC (Plafond Limite de Classement) of only 20%, when fully 40% was available. The villages wine saw 30% new oak, the 1ers 50% and the grands crus 70%. Mme. Tollot said the Domaine plans to bottle both the reds read more...and the whites in January and they were tasted in November. In other news, the Domaine acquired a 1.7 ha parcel of Chorey La Pièce du Chapitre, which is situated near Aloxe-Corton and the first vintage will be in 2001; this raises the size of the Domaine to 23.7 ha. Also, beginning with the 99 vintage, the Domaine has adopted new packaging for its wines, having modified both the label and the bottle. The design is based on a 100 year old bottle and is quite heavy, weighing almost 2 pounds empty! The container resembles an old hand blown bottle with asymmetrical shoulders and a deliberately deformed collar lip, again to resemble early hand made glass. Together with the ribbed and embossed label, it makes for an attractive and different package. Tollot-Beaut has always fashioned one of my favorite examples of Corton-Charlemagne with their dazzlingly elegant, crisp, pure, extremely mineral style and this 99 is a textbook example. Wonderfully penetrating and seemingly able to carry its 14.5% alcohol without effort. While this is somewhat fat, there is more than enough balancing acidity that carries nicely into the long, impressively persistent finish. A first rate 99 Corton-Charlemagne. (hide)
- Burghound
- Issue 7, Jul 01, 2002
- 91/100
-
May 2008
- Note: the review of the Tollot-Beaut 99 reds was inadvertently omitted from Issue 2 and it is included here together with their 99 whites and two 98 reds. I met with Nathalie Tollot who opined that the Domaine's 99 reds were the finest they had seen since 1947. The crop came in with small berries and thick skins with total yields equivalent to 1996. She also noted that the Domaine applied for a PLC (Plafond Limite de Classement) of only 20%, when fully 40% was available. The villages wine saw 30% new oak, the 1ers 50% and the grands crus 70%. Mme. Tollot said the Domaine plans to bottle both the reds read more...and the whites in January and they were tasted in November. In other news, the Domaine acquired a 1.7 ha parcel of Chorey La Pièce du Chapitre, which is situated near Aloxe-Corton and the first vintage will be in 2001; this raises the size of the Domaine to 23.7 ha. Also, beginning with the 99 vintage, the Domaine has adopted new packaging for its wines, having modified both the label and the bottle. The design is based on a 100 year old bottle and is quite heavy, weighing almost 2 pounds empty! The container resembles an old hand blown bottle with asymmetrical shoulders and a deliberately deformed collar lip, again to resemble early hand made glass. Together with the ribbed and embossed label, it makes for an attractive and different package. Tollot-Beaut has always fashioned one of my favorite examples of Corton-Charlemagne with their dazzlingly elegant, crisp, pure, extremely mineral style and this '99 is a textbook example. Wonderfully penetrating and seemingly able to carry its 14.5% alcohol without effort. While this is somewhat fat and robust, indeed even quite masculine in character, there is more than enough balancing acidity that carries nicely into the long, impressively persistent finish. A first rate '99 Corton-Charlemagne. (hide)
