Corton Grand Cru, Domaine Tollot-Beaut 2024

Corton is Burgundy's only red Grand Cru on the Côte de Beaune, and it plays by its own rules — bigger, darker, and more tannic than anything from Chambolle or Vosne. "From limestone-rich soils with red earth and iron. Highly expressive, showing rose petal, ripe plum, blueberry and cherry, with depth, polish and real authority." Ksenia Pashkova, Club Merchandiser Tollot-Beaut have been farming their parcel here for generations, and they bring the same quiet rigour to this wine as they do to everything else: no tricks, no shortcuts, just very good fruit from a hill that rewards patience. The 2024 vintage, cooler and more precise than several recent years, has given Corton unusual freshness without losing the weight that defines it. "As to the style, 2024 is definitely a cooler vintage with good freshness and transparency and it makes me think of our 2010s. I was very impressed by the quality I found here and a number of the wines are very much worth your interest." Allen Meadows, Burghound on Tollot Beaut's 2024 vintage This is a wine to put down and forget about for a few years. Right now it's a little buttoned up; the tannins are present and purposeful, the fruit dark and concentrated — but beneath that there's real generosity waiting to unfold.