Jean-Jacques Girard, Corton-En Charlemagne Rouge, 2012 Wine Club La Croix de Saint-Georges is

La Croix de Saint-Georges is a Janoueix-family Pomerol estate — part of the Joanne / Janoueix portfolio that has long worked the right bank with a steady

with notes of red fruit

with a savory

the kind of year that needed a decade or two to fully reveal itself

All organic

Jean-Jacques Girard, Corton-En Charlemagne Rouge, 2012 Wine Club La Croix de Saint-Georges isA grand cru red from the Corton hill, Girard's Corton 'En Charlemagne,' grown on the lower slopes where Pinot Noir replaces the famous white wine Chardonnay above. This is from a seventh generation Savigny les Beaune family that farms across many appellations of the Cote de Beaune, and grand cru Corton is the top of their red lineup. 2012 was a small, concentrated vintage, frost and hail reduced, that gave dense, serious wines. The fruit is matured in