Corton Pougets, Grand Cru, Louis Jadot 1997
OCC
"Fresh medium red with a hint of amber. Less open on the nose than the '99, offering scents of plum and leather. Very glyceral, plush, massive wine with remarkable sweetness and concentration; seriously thick without coming across as ponderous. This unusually powerful wine offers flavors of red berries, red cherry and salty minerality complicated by hints of leather and mocha. The big tannins are horizontal and well-distributed. Yes, there's something a bit extreme about this bottling but it would appear to be built for a long life in bottle. I recall Jacques Lardière comparing his 1997s in the early going to Jadot's '47s, as he picked very late, holding out for fuller skin ripeness and simply eliminating rot-affected berries, ultimately losing up to 75% of the crop to botrytis." Stephen Tanzer