2022 Bouchard Corton Charlemagne Grand Cru

"Very youthful, cool and pristine, this Corton Charlemagne is intensely mineral with great underplayed power, the stony quality building and building at the mind-blowingly salty finish. This is going to take a long time to give it’s best, but what an astonishing wine this is. As usual, it derives from the domaine’s holdings on the Ladoix side. At the very top of the hill planted on white marl, this four-hectare parcel is typically the last one to be picked – there is the elevation but also a wind that is always blowing here."

"The Bouchard Corton Charlemagne reflects the vintage in an impressive way—it is a powerful wine, impressively substantial, long and almost fat in the mouth. Yet there is also an elegance and finesse to the wine that brings it into dynamic equilibrium, with aromas of ripe apple, apricot and hazelnuts and accents of hawthorn and hay. The grapes come from the domaine’s superb four-hectare holding at the top of the slope, where recent studies with Françoise Vannier confirm 50 – 60 cm of yellow marl and limestone pebbles above the bedrock, explaining the delightful fresh acidity even in a warm year, such as 2022." Drink 2027 - 2055

"The Bouchard holding in Le Corton is made up of white marl on top of limestone slabs, and protected by the forest from the evening sun. Pale lemon and lime. The nose is slightly backward, delicate little flowers, but with the correct stony, almost gravelly aspect. Some riper fruit notes putting their heads above the parapet. A significant saline character too, behind. Drink from 2030- 2038."