Domaine des Heritiers Louis Jadot, Corton Grand Cru, Les Pougets 2012

(13.6% alcohol; 3.45 pH; 3.94 g/l acidity; from a yield of around 30 h/h, reduced by millerandage): Moderately saturated medium red. Quite tight and closed on the nose, hinting at medicinal dark red fruits, minerals and licorice. A distinctly powerful wine with a serious spine; quite imploded today and not showing the fleshiness or pliancy of texture of the 2015 bottling. This penetrating but sullen wine finishes with a repeating brooding medicinal quality and serious palate-saturating tannins that come off as a tad dry today. Barnier told me that 2012 was a vintage with hard skins, and that the wines show a certain rusticity owing to the thick skins and lack of juice. This struck me as rather uncompromisingly dry at the vertical tasting and not much fun for the time being. Like so many 2012 reds, it has also shut down since the bottling.

• Drinking Window: 2024 - 2040
• Reviewer Name: Stephen Tanzer
• Review Date: February 2019