2022 Corton Charlemagne
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Aged in 35% new oak, this is a standout in 2022. It’s muscular and firm, very Corton in style, with classical fruit – green apple, lime, grapefruit pith and just-ripe pear that works alongside an iron minerality. Broad, structured and powerful, an impressive wine that needs time to reveal its full complexity.
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Jasper Morris MW, Inside Burgundy
William Kelley, Wine Advocate
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The 2022 Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru (Domaine) derives from vines in Languettes, a south-facing climat that produces a ripe style of wine. Delivering aromas of sweet yellow orchard fruit, confit citrus and buttery pastry, it's medium to full-bodied, rich and ample, with a layered, seamless profile.
From domaine fruit, picked on 26th August. 35% new wood from various forests. A deeper lemon yellow. Plenty of tension on the nose, with a breadth of apple fruit. A slight reductive quality before the oak takes over. A little youthful bitterness. I don’t find it showing at its best today but I suspect that there is more to this to emerge later.
About the producer
Joseph Drouhin is one of the largest and most famous producers in Burgundy, making both domaine and négociant wines. It remains family-owned and run, now in the hands of the fourth generation.