1945 Camille Giroud Corton

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  6/1/2013 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:

  A friend gifted us a bottle of 1945 Camille Giraud Corton. It had the 1945 neck label but no label proper and the fill level was low shoulder at best. It was a recent acquisition from a cellar in France and the wine had good colour with just a tinge of olive on the rim indicating some serious age. We got the cork out in one piece and the wine had quite a bit of equine action upon first sniff. A neutral cork was jammed in the bottle and after a 7 hour ‘Audouzing’ it was singing. Thoroughbred smells still emanated but the wine now had some salt, leather, sweat, ground coffee, black earth, curry powder and sweet meat notes. It is a substantial wine with a slippery texture. Flavours are robust and a little blocky. It has true tertiary characters of teak and truffle and there’s good lift on the finish from some balsamic like volatility. Quite cerebral wine that changes with every sniff and sip.

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