Burgundy for Everyone! Mature Grand Cru Corton On Sale Super Cellar Defender Bourgogne Rouge 2012 Under $20 Another terrific stop on my Burgundy trip last month was a first time visit to a new grower for us, Domaine Vincent Ravaut. We've been selling his Bourgogne Rouge 2010, which has been a wine of the month and great success for us since we brought it in last fall, and it was great to see that there are some excellent wines in the pipeline from this up and coming grower. The visit included everything from Bourgogne Rouge to his Grand Cru wines, with an excellent tasting of several library vintages of his Grand Cru Corton Haut Mourottes at the end. Today we are offering two superb red Burgundies at opposite ends of the scale in terms of price - the 2012 Bourgogne Rouge and the 2003 Grand Cru Corton Haut Mourottes. Both are super values in their own way and indicators of the quality and talent at this fifth generation winery - don't miss them! The 2012 vintage was a very short crop and quanities and allocations are going to be tight with upward pressure on prices too, and the 2003 Corton is a limited cellar direct offer while supplies last. Wines Arrive April 2014. Cheers, Chris Ravaut Bourgogne Rouge 2012 - Pre Arrival Price $18 per bottle - $16.99 on six or more Ravaut Corton Grand Cru Haut Mourottes 2003 - Pre Arrival Price $112.50 per bottle - $99.99 on six or more Pre-Arrival - Wines Arrive April 2014. To Order call us at 908.953.0900, click on the links below for our secure website, or reply to this email. Be sure to include payment info and shipping or pick up instructions. The Bourgogne Rouge is typical of the fantastic 2012's I tasted on the trip, a vintage that is tiny in terms of production, had plenty of challenges, but ended up yielding beautiful wines! This has good solid concentration and weight, fine balance, moderate tannins and structure, even perhaps a bit meatier and rounder than the focused 2010 we are selling now. Lovely dark cherry spice, red fruits, deliciously balanced, bursting with classy beautiful Pinot fruit. This is an absolute steal and a wine to drink from 2014-2016 or more. Only problem was that it was a very small vintage and there is not much available! We are offering this as a pre-arrival offer so we can be sure to lock up as much as possible of this fantastic, affordable Cellar Defender red Burgundy. Corton Haut Mourottes 2003 Grand Cru - While quite often I find the 2003's showing a little too much of the warmth of the vintage, in this wine was absolutely fantastic! Deepish ruby red, no sign of brick or fade, this was fuller, deeper and altogether the most balanced of the series of vintages we tried, supple and lovable at the moment. Beautiful crushed cherry, hints of leather and spice, just beginning to show some secondary aromas and flavors but definitely having shed its youthful structure and edge and gaining some of the game and earth notes I love so much in grand Cru Corton Rouge. Solid and fairly muscular, this is a wine that can be enjoyed now and over the next 4-5 years or more. The Haut Mourottes, which translates into the "high wall", lies just on the Ladoix side, high
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