Francois Labet VDP Ile de Beaute Pinot Noir 2022

93 POINTS: Wine Direct Tasting Team

"Francois Labet VDP Ile de Beaute Pinot Noir offers all the charming silky red fruit and scent of Burgundy’s Pinot Noir but with more fruit and 'fat' around its bones.  The warmer climate of Corsica ripens the Pinot Noir perfectly to yield this vibrant, versatile, super glugable Mediterranean "Burgundy" has great personality and represents amazing value for money.  Imagine a combination of charming Pinot fruit and Rhone ripeness and you have Ile de Beaute Pinot Noir!"
- Wine Direct Tasting Team

Produced by François Labet, owner of Burgundy powerhouse Château de La Tour in Clos de Vougeot and Domaine Pierre Labet. François Labet owns a summer home in Corsica and over the years he fell in love with the rocky, high-altitude terroir. The vineyard is situated 20 Miles Northwest of Porto Vecchio on the East Coast in the Southern region of Corsica, the French Island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is located on the geological fault line separating Southern Corsica and Upper Corsica, each composed of soil schist and granite, this vineyard of 35 Acres is composed of metamorphic rocks foothills.

ABV: 12.5%