Louis Lequin Corton Les Languettes Grand Cru 2017

Louis Lequin Santenay Corton Languettes Grand Cru is a red wine made from the Pinot Noir variety by the Lequin Family in Corton (Burgundy), France. It is a wine from the aristocratic hill of Corton, in one of the best areas of the Côte d'Or. This Les Languettes plot produces wines with a tart cherry profile, with great freshness, in the mouth we are initially surprised by a very clean and sweet fruit, which then gives way to a wine with a certain weight, which ends up being elongated in the spices. It is the magic of the Burgundy Grand Cru, here interpreted in a very classic way.

The Lequin family has been a family of winegrowers since 1604. Therefore, more than four centuries have contemplated the Domaine although it is for a few years that Antoine and Cécile, young but well-trained, have taken the reins of this Domaine de Santenay. Santenay is aN appellation within Burgundy to which more and more attention is paid everyday. Part of the Cote de Beaune, it is the appellation in which the Cote dOr ends and, curiously, it is an area much more of red wines than of white wines as it happens in neighboring Chassagne and Puligny. But let's not stray from the topic, we are to explain about the Domaine Louis Lequin. Santenay has always had a certain rustic character, but the Lequins work with little extraction and have the good taste to keep the bottles for us for a few years during which the wines are refined and allow the burgundy delicacy to emerge to the delight of lovers of great wines from the iron fist in a silk glove.

In the vineyard, they work in a respectful way, with natural fertilizers and without herbicides, using traditional tillage to remove grass when necessary. The vinification of the reds combines the whole bunch and the destemming in variable percentages and the aging is in French oak barrels with variable percentages of new oak depending on the cuvée. The whites are fermented in French oak barrels, which requires great sensitivity in winemaking so as not to overwhelm the wine with toasting. White wines are intense and sweet.