Philippe Pacalet, Corton Bressandes Vintage:2017 showing a very gamey character

showing a very gamey character on the nose along with some leaf mulch and cigar tobacco

Reduction masks the underlying fruit though there is a really lovely inner mouth perfume to the punchy and gorgeously textured middle weight flavors that brim with minerality on the sappy and wonderfully complex finale that flashes first-rate length

I would not mark it down as a top tier Petrus

This mineral-suffused effort is very Chambolle in character and should be approachable young

an approach that worked beautifully

Philippe Pacalet, Corton Bressandes Vintage:2017 showing a very gamey characterThis is the first wine to display any material amount of reduction and here its enough to overshadow the fruit. Otherwise there is fine freshness to the big bodied and muscular flavors that are at once rich and quite serious, all wrapped in an austere if long finish. This needs to develop more depth but the underlying material appears to be such that it should in time. (90 93) 2029+