Robert Parker Score: 95

Score: 93-95 BH

Region: Burgundy

District: Corton

Type: Still Wine

Color: Red

Varietal: Burgundy

Vintage: 2005

Size: 750ML

Available: 1

Brand: See more from Domaine Leroy

Sku: 102063

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Parker Review:
The Leroy 2005 Corton Renardes smells of red cherry, charred wood, vanilla, and lily, but comes onto the palate particularly juicy as well as satisfyingly rich and expansive. This is silky in texture but bright and insistent in its sense of primary fresh fruit. A superbly long finish unites cherry liqueur, nutmeg, vanilla, chalk dust, and a savory meatiness, and the empty glass is sweetly perfumed with sensational intensity. I have never tasted a youthful Corton remotely so forward, perfumed, silken, or superficially sweet.

Other Notes:
While its never the greatest wine in the Leroy range, the Renardes along with the Clos de la Roche is arguably the most distinctive as the intense animale and pungent earth notes mark the wine from stem to stern. The ultra complex and as noted, highly distinctive nose gives way to rich, forward and well muscled flavors bristling with powerful tannins that come across as velvety and suave because of the buckets of midpalate sap. This wont win awards for elegance but I quite admire the frank and generous character plus the sheer depth is impressive as hell. Burghound