Aloxe Corton
Follin Arbelet

Aloxe Corton, 2020


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2020

6x75cl

DP

£231.02



Follin Arbelet, Aloxe Corton, 2020

2020

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Follin Arbelet, Aloxe Corton, 2020

A striking villages with a sense of completeness to it that’s highly impressive. Silky, luminous dark fruit on the nose, ripe yet precise bramble and hedgerow flavours on the attack, across the entire palate a sense of juicy freshness and gorgeously supple tannins. Bold yet fine-tuned too, finishing with a lick of limestone minerality. Shows real promise and a level of quality above its village status. This comes from a parcel of vines planted on chalk and limestone soils that produce atypically round, alluring Aloxe-Cortons.

ABV:
14%
87-89/100
Neal Martin, Vinous

The 2020 Aloxe-Corton Village felt a little muted on the nose, reluctantly opening with blackberry, briary and light briny aromas. The palate is medium-bodied with firm tannins. Strict and focused but with commendable delineation on the sapid finish. It lacks a little flair but it should give a decade’s worth of drinking pleasure.
Date Reviewed:
12/2021

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country:
France

region:
Burgundy

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Follin Arbelet

Follin Arbelet

Since Frank Follin inherited vines originally under the control of the Louis Latour empire, he has been making sublime wines of concentration, purity and complexity. All of his vines from Aloxe-Corton, Corton, Pernand-Vergelesses and Romanée St Vivant are tended by hand and respectfully protected from any form of insecticide or pesticide, each betraying individuality, polish and great purity. By large the wines are de-stalked here but fermentations sometimes include up to 20% whole berry ferment depending on the vintage or cuvée, resulting in wines of suave, velvet textures. His cellars are cool and deep, so this process and the elevage are long, slow and gentle with minimal intervention, new oak percentages being kept to below 40%.

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