Cote D'or Pinot Noir Flashcards
Pinot Noir Cote D’or
Tart to just ripe red fruit (red cherry, raspberry, cranberry)
Dry, medium body, elevated acidity
Marsannay
whose reds have historically been among the lightest in the Côte de Nuits.
Gevrey-Chambertin
Powerful and structured. Show darker fruits (Blackberry, Dark Cherry)
Chambolle-Musigny
Silky charm, emphasizing elegance over power. Delicate, yet they retain great intensity.
Morey-Saint-Denis
Meeting-point between the two more polarized styles of Gevrey-Chambertin and Chambolle-Musigny, containing elements of both
Vosne-Romanée
finesse and purity, with a capacity for long, graceful aging
Nuits-Saint-Georges
Sturdy and long-lived, tannic and muscular
Beaune Premier Cru
Variable, solid but not as complex at cote de nuits
Pommard
Fuller-bodied, weightier, more tannic wines. Pommard may see more new oak than other red wines of the Côte de Beaune.
Volnay
Volnay tasting note accentuates elegance rather than power. It is the Chambolle-Musigny to Pommard’s Gevrey-Chambertin.
Chassagne-Montrachet
The reds are generally lighter in body and they can be tannic.
Mercurey
Mercurey is really a red wine village, producing the firmest and most muscular reds in the Côte Chalonnaise