1 dozen bottles per lot
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DOMAINE JOSEPH FAIVELEY
Francois Faiveley, sixth generation, directs this 120 hectare domaine, founded in 1825, with extensive holdings throughout Burgundy. The house style across appellations calls for structured wines that age very well. Faiveley's muscularity excels in hot vintages, such as 1990 and puts in strong efforts in so-called off-vintages. Indeed, some of the vineyards generally held in lesser regard demonstrate a remarkably ability to age when bottled at Chez Faiveley. The vineyards themselves consist of old vines reproducing from their own stock rather than commercial clones. Strict pruning in conjunction with green harvest when called for maintains low yields. Bunches are entirely de-stemmed and the grapes are fermented with indigenous yeasts at cool temperature with lengthy skin contact. His best wines are hand bottled unfiltered, barrel by barrel. Depending on the cru, upwards of fifty percent new oak can be utilized during maturation. In the end, the wines strike a superb balance between concentration and elegance. Clos des Cortons, the company's flagship monopole, is an intense, robust, briary and earthy wine with exceedingly good grip. Another monopole, the Clos de la Maréchale comes across as touch tight and rustic in its youth becomes longer and lithe with age, maintaining remarkable freshness for a Nuits-St.-Georges. In Gevrey, the Clos de Bèze is a dense darkly fruited wine displaying great breed while the Mazis, perhaps the most profound of Faiveley's Grand Crus, puts forth a myriad of iron, game and truffle flavors. Truly a white wine trapped in a red wine's body, the Corton-Charlemagne is a powerful and nearly explosive chardonnay made in an over the top style.
JC
Corton, Clos des Cortons--Vintage 1985
Côte de Beaune, Faiveley
In original wooden case
1 dozen bottles per lot
Francois Faiveley, sixth generation, directs this 120 hectare domaine, founded in 1825, with extensive holdings throughout Burgundy. The house style across appellations calls for structured wines that age very well. Faiveley's muscularity excels in hot vintages, such as 1990 and puts in strong efforts in so-called off-vintages. Indeed, some of the vineyards generally held in lesser regard demonstrate a remarkably ability to age when bottled at Chez Faiveley. The vineyards themselves consist of old vines reproducing from their own stock rather than commercial clones. Strict pruning in conjunction with green harvest when called for maintains low yields. Bunches are entirely de-stemmed and the grapes are fermented with indigenous yeasts at cool temperature with lengthy skin contact. His best wines are hand bottled unfiltered, barrel by barrel. Depending on the cru, upwards of fifty percent new oak can be utilized during maturation. In the end, the wines strike a superb balance between concentration and elegance. Clos des Cortons, the company's flagship monopole, is an intense, robust, briary and earthy wine with exceedingly good grip. Another monopole, the Clos de la Maréchale comes across as touch tight and rustic in its youth becomes longer and lithe with age, maintaining remarkable freshness for a Nuits-St.-Georges. In Gevrey, the Clos de Bèze is a dense darkly fruited wine displaying great breed while the Mazis, perhaps the most profound of Faiveley's Grand Crus, puts forth a myriad of iron, game and truffle flavors. Truly a white wine trapped in a red wine's body, the Corton-Charlemagne is a powerful and nearly explosive chardonnay made in an over the top style.
JC
Corton, Clos des Cortons--Vintage 1985
Côte de Beaune, Faiveley
In original wooden case
1 dozen bottles per lot