Good Value: TN: 2012 Louis Latour Corton-Clos du Roi--Gulpable Grand Cru

[John Trombley]

2/10/2018 rated 91 points: 2012 Louis Latour Corton-Clos du Roi (France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Corton Grand Cru),for dinner 2/28/2018, with the Edminsters hopefully after a few days in Coravin, Riedel Burgundy. 14 pabv $79/750 ml, FOB WineBid; Louis Latour; San Raphael, CA. Broadly sheety with very few tears; Dense in color with 5 mm fading. Lavender-dusted cherry juice color. Good value in this price range.

Weedy (cassis-influenced) sweet cherry with firm high-floral overtones. Sweet but bitter cherry, balanced into extremely fine dense tannin, medium somewhat neutral finish. Tried with rare goose breast (cold confit d'oie) and Franconian potatoes. Neutralizes the nose; bitters and then sweetens the confit and potatoes, and thrusts the rest of the sensations onto the finish so it becomes longer and less neutral. Excellent 'wash-down' match; advantage for high-end Latour reds are that they are made, even at their price range, as very good food wines if they are not over-analyzed but knocked back. Also good with parmigiiano-style Italian cheeses.

Anyone else ever notice the gulpability with food of their house style?

A medium-to-full-bodied, richly colored wine of somewhat punchy expressiveness; 91/100.