2024 Domaine Edmond Cornu Bourgogne Rouge "Les Barrigards"

The Cornus have been in Ladoix since 1870, and the house Pierre’s great-great-grandfather built is still the one you walk into upon arrival. For decades the fruit went to négociants, until Edmond took over in 1956 and started bottling his own wine in 1959. His son Pierre joined in the mid-1980s and has run the domaine since, with his wife Édith, his cousin Emmanuel Boireau in the cellar and his daughter Lucie since 2020. The holdings, roughly 16 hectares and nearly all Pinot Noir, spread out from the foot of the Corton hill like a general’s campaign map: Ladoix, Chorey, Savigny, Aloxe-Corton premier crus like Valozières and Moutottes, and a half hectare of Corton-Bressandes halfway up the hill. The winemaking hasn’t changed much: hand harvest, full destemming, native yeasts, a year or so in barrel with modest new oak usage. These are the earthy, woodsy, old-fashioned Burgundies people claim don’t exist anymore, and they’re among the last of that breed still sold at a friendlier Ladoix price!