2019 BEAUNE 1er Cru Cras Domaine Joseph Drouhin, Lea & Sandeman

BEAUNE

2021 1er Cru Cras Domaine Joseph Drouhin

Grapes Pinot Noir
Colour Red
Origin France, Burgundy
District Côte d'Or
Sub-district Côte de Beaune
Village Beaune
Classification 1er Cru
Vineyard Cras

Here too the wood treatment is sensitive though not imperceptible on the equally airy and expressive nose of red and dark fruit, newly turned earth and a hint of spiced tea. The sleek and equally intense if not especially concentrated middleweight flavors possess a lovely sense of refinement along with more evident minerality on the youthfully austere, balanced and moderately firm finale. This attractively textured effort should amply replay up to a decade of keeping. Drinking range: 2023 - 2029 Rating: 90-92 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Jul 2023)


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The 2021 Beaune Cras 1er Cru has a bright, quite mineral-driven bouquet with a real skip in its step. The palate is well balanced with pliant tannins, nicely-pitched acidity, not deep or particularly concentrated, yet it gradually builds and reveals a very cohesive, able finish that will stand it in good stead. It will be difficult to resist in its flush of youth. Drinking range: 2024 - 2036 Rating: 90-92 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Jan 2023)

A solid deep red colour. The bouquet gives a little more here, and the fruit is more exuberant on the palate with a light white pepper touch at the back from a small dose of whole bunches. Certainly a big step up from the Volnay. Drinking range: 2025 - 2030 Rating: 90-92 Jasper Morris - Inside Burgundy  (Nov 2022)

Domaine Joseph Drouhin

Joseph Drouhin, founded in 1880 and still family owned, are one of the most well-respected names in Burgundy, especially through their flagship wine, the iconic Clos des Mouches.

A huge part of the Drouhin production comes from their own domaine fruit (78 hectares), and much of the rest comes from contracts such as that with the Marquis de Laguiche, who shook hands with the grandfather of the current generation, agreeing to let him manage his vineyards which included an important part of Le Montrachet; this collaboration endures. Today, the fourth generation is at the helm

Small refinements continue to be made here. The presses have been changed - a reversion to basket pressing for the reds, and for whites the presses are open - along with a number of other growers they are following the trend to think that slight oxidation of the juice before fermentation is not a problem and may add complexity as well as avoiding later problems of premature oxidation in bottle.

For the reds there has been the introduction of selective whole-bunch fermentation in the Côte de Nuits wines. The house style remains one that 'emphasises the natural elegance of great Burgundies' as they describe it. The domaine is all cultivated with an organic and biodynamic approach.

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