Hautes Mourottes is high on the Corton hill above Ladoix. It is quite cool with a higher than usual clay component over white marl that ensure a firm structured wine. Classic - patience required.
Darren Harris
Only 500 metres from Bressandes but a totally different expression of Grand Cru Corton. The Hautes Mourottes is more elegant, less obvious, but is a wine that creeps up on you. The higher, cooler site is no doubt the reason for less richness with the mineral structure covered by elegant red-black fruit with hints of violet and a little minty stem character. The material is fine but compared to the Bressandes this wine is more closed and begging for time in the cellar to display its full character. One would say it is the more traditionally-styled of the two Grand Crus from Ravaut.
Domaine Gaston and Pierre Ravaut
