2010 Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru
France
Corton Charlemagne
Burgundy
White
Chardonnay (2022 vintage)
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2010
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Proprietor Jean-Charles le Bault de la Morinière compares 2011 to 2007, and to a lesser extent, 2001. Flowering was very early, as it was everywhere in Burgundy, but the main cause for concern was a hailstorm that arrived on May 20, that seems to have had little effect on yields, which were inline with normal. A very rainy July and early August slowed down ripening from its previous fast pace. The Chardonnay harvest started on September 6 and finished on the 12th. Fermentations were quite slow within the context of the year, and it was not until June 2012 that the malos were completely finished. The 2011 Corton-Charlemagne was bottled in Spring 2013.
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Bonneau du Martray now prefers to show finished wines rather than wines in barrel, so I did not taste the 2023s on my most recent visit. The bottled 2022s are excellent, but they are also a bit more reserved post-bottling than they were last year. Technical Director Emmanuel Hautus continues to give these wines greater precision through a focus on parcel-by-parcel vinification, experimentation with larger-format oak and the selection of coopers based on the style of individual vintages. I’ve included a handful of notes for older vintages that I tasted in two recent visits that aren’t quite enough for a stand-alone report.
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I tasted a wide range of wines with Chef de Cave Emmanuel Hautus during my most recent visit to Bonneau du Martray, including a few prior releases I will be writing about separately. The last ten years or so have seen a continuous series of refinements here, including gentler and longer ferments, lower sulfur during élevage and the introduction of 12HL casks in the cellar for the Corton-Charlemagne. That comes through in wines of notable precision and class. Even so, my impression is that the domaine is still on the ascent.
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Bonneau du Martray now prefers to show finished wines rather than wines in barrel, so I did not taste the 2023s on my most recent visit. The bottled 2022s are excellent, but they are also a bit more reserved post-bottling than they were last year. Technical Director Emmanuel Hautus continues to give these wines greater precision through a focus on parcel-by-parcel vinification, experimentation with larger-format oak and the selection of coopers based on the style of individual vintages. I’ve included a handful of notes for older vintages that I tasted in two recent visits that aren’t quite enough for a stand-alone report.
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Four years have passed since I last visited the most famous estate in Pernand-Vergelesses with the largest slice of Corton-Charlemagne: Domaine Bonneau du Martray. I meet with cellar-master Emmanuel Hautus and commercial director Thibault Jacquet, and they give me a short tour of the winery. With their billionaire owner, there is no shortage of gadgetry for Hautus and his team to experiment with, clay jars, stainless-steel barrels, concrete eggs, various-sized oak barrels and so forth. The mantra here is one of quality, though that did not spare them in 2021. However, on this occasion, we skip back a vintage to examine 2020 in bottle.
“I have good memories of this vintage,” Thibault tells me. “The flowering went very well. We picked from 26 August with the Pinots in the morning at the bottom of the hill until 30 August. We stopped and then restarted on 4 September with a large crew, picking 1.5 hectares per day for the Corton-Charlemagne. We learned after the 2018 vintage and are now more precise with picking dates. Today, we have the means to taste all the blocks during the harvest. That is vital in the future with global warming. We had to do the fermentation quickly. We work with less sulfur; ideally, we want the malo to start in the spring after the harvest, though sometimes it starts during the alcoholic fermentation which can be disruptive. We are looking for wines with texture. For the red, we are harvesting a little later than we used to. We are using terracotta amphorae, 3-5%. We are using a new de-stemmer positioned at the beginning of the sorting table instead of the end.”
I find much to praise with what comes across as a taut and surprisingly tensile 2020 Corton-Charlemagne, befitting such a noble terroir. I must say. However, I can’t make head nor tail of the 2020 Le Corton, which comes with a pungent nose instantly identifiable as Thai fish oil, vegetal notes hot on its tail on the palate that might be understandable in 2021, yet vexing in a warm season like 2020. I get the sense that they are still working out an approach to their vines, a modus operandi that will see through thick and thin for the red. But the white, the banner cru at the end of the day, appears to be heading in the right direction.
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Bonneau du Martray now prefers to show finished wines rather than wines in barrel, so I did not taste the 2023s on my most recent visit. The bottled 2022s are excellent, but they are also a bit more reserved post-bottling than they were last year. Technical Director Emmanuel Hautus continues to give these wines greater precision through a focus on parcel-by-parcel vinification, experimentation with larger-format oak and the selection of coopers based on the style of individual vintages. I’ve included a handful of notes for older vintages that I tasted in two recent visits that aren’t quite enough for a stand-alone report.
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Bonneau du Martray now prefers to show finished wines rather than wines in barrel, so I did not taste the 2023s on my most recent visit. The bottled 2022s are excellent, but they are also a bit more reserved post-bottling than they were last year. Technical Director Emmanuel Hautus continues to give these wines greater precision through a focus on parcel-by-parcel vinification, experimentation with larger-format oak and the selection of coopers based on the style of individual vintages. I’ve included a handful of notes for older vintages that I tasted in two recent visits that aren’t quite enough for a stand-alone report.
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I tasted the wines in this article during my visit to Bonneau du Martray last summer while the Musique et Vin festival was running, a time that today feels like it belongs to another era entirely. Winemaker Emmanuel Hautus showed me a wide range of vintages, all of which were impressive. I had tasted some of these recently, so I can't say I was entirely surprised. Hautus grouped the Corton-Charlemagnes into three flights: 1) vintages of energy (2005, 2014, 2017), 2) weak vintages (1993, 1994, 2011) and 3) recent vintages (2015, 2016) and the very rare red Corton into two flights: 1) older vintages (1991, 1999, 2003) and 2) newer releases (2015, 2017). Although they had been bottled only a few months before this tasting, the 2017s, the first vintage made under new owner Stan Kroenke, point to a very bright future.
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No domaine is more synonymous with Corton-Charlemagne than Bonneau du Martray. So when news came that reclusive American billionaire Stanley Kroenke had bought the estate from the family of Jean-Charles Le Bault de la Morinière, it inevitably caused ripples across Burgundy and beyond. Whenever an outsider buys a famous and historic domaine, it creates a sense of unease, a break in continuity and speculation upon what will change. Add into the mix Aubert de Villaine renting 2.8 hectares of their holdings from 2018 onwards, and people naturally chatter about the direction Bonneau du Martray is heading. So what is going on? I met manager Thibault Jacquet along with winemaker Emmanuel Hautus and vineyard manager Fabien Esthor. Together we trooped up to take in the view of the famous Corton-Charlemagne hill on an unseasonably warm October morning, the vine leaves iridescent shades of mustard, as if painted by van Gogh. Thibault pointed out their vineyard holdings, including two parcels pulled up because their vines are no longer productive. One had been cleared the previous day and the funeral pyre of trunks could still be seen. He told me that they have conducted an analysis of all the plots, covering altitude, geology, soil type, vine age and rootstock, and found that some terroirs have very similar characteristics. According to Thibault, these duplications have allowed the domaine to rent out the vineyard to de Villaine, whilst maintaining the essential character of Corton-Charlemagne in the past. Of course, what both domaines share is an application of biodynamic techniques. Back at the winery, there are all manner of new additions, including different-sized concrete eggs and a clay amphora sitting between the rows of stainless-steel vats, not to mention recently introduced cigar-shaped barrels and demi-muids that reduce wood influence.
Certainly there is a newfound sense of experimentation, and they have an advantage in that they own such sizeable holdings. Unlike other domaines afforded just a few rows of vines, they can countenance a degree of trial and error or sell off unsatisfactory barrels in order to uphold the final quality of wine. Unlike previous visits, they offered samples from various parcels according to altitude and, on this occasion, size of barrel. This is always a useful insight, though of course what matters to consumers is the final blend. Thankfully, I find a lot of promise in the 2017 Corton-Charlemagne, which was picked September 1–6 and will be bottled according to the lunar calendar, around Easter. I admire the tension and harmony, although it will require two or three years for the wood to fully assimilate on the nose. As for its red counterpart, picked on August 31, to be frank, this is where work needs to be done. The 2017 Le Corton still feels too rustic at a time when many of its peers are showing more finesse and purity of fruit. It just feels a little… clunky. I wonder whether this was actually picked a couple of days prematurely.
It will be interesting to plot the progress of the domaine over the coming years. Clearly, much is changing in terms of holdings and techniques, though they impressed upon me that the personnel will remain constant. Premature oxidation has plagued back vintages and I hope this will not be ignored, because certainly here in the UK, it tarnished the domaine’s reputation, making their application of biodynamics inconsequential when the affected bottles were barely drinkable. It will be fascinating to compare to two Corton-Charlemagnes from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti and Bonneau du Martray side by side, but given the potential of the 2017, I feel that the latter is setting the right course.
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I tasted the wines in this article during my visit to Bonneau du Martray last summer while the Musique et Vin festival was running, a time that today feels like it belongs to another era entirely. Winemaker Emmanuel Hautus showed me a wide range of vintages, all of which were impressive. I had tasted some of these recently, so I can't say I was entirely surprised. Hautus grouped the Corton-Charlemagnes into three flights: 1) vintages of energy (2005, 2014, 2017), 2) weak vintages (1993, 1994, 2011) and 3) recent vintages (2015, 2016) and the very rare red Corton into two flights: 1) older vintages (1991, 1999, 2003) and 2) newer releases (2015, 2017). Although they had been bottled only a few months before this tasting, the 2017s, the first vintage made under new owner Stan Kroenke, point to a very bright future.
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This prestigious estate, which makes only a single Corton grand cru red and a Corton-Charlemagne from its prime 11 hectares of vines on the Corton hill, was purchased by American billionaire Stan Kroenke (owner of Screaming Eagle and the Arsenal football club) at the end of 2016, following two centuries of ownership by the family of Jean-Charles Le Bault de la Morinière, who had worked with his father Jean at the estate since 1969 and took over winemaking duties in 1994. He oversaw the conversion of the estate to organic viticulture (Bonneau du Martray is certified by EcoCert) in the early 2000s. Cellarmaster Emmanuel Hautus, who has been here since 2011, assured me that the wines are made today by the same team and according to the same organic principles.
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I tasted the wines in this article during my visit to Bonneau du Martray last summer while the Musique et Vin festival was running, a time that today feels like it belongs to another era entirely. Winemaker Emmanuel Hautus showed me a wide range of vintages, all of which were impressive. I had tasted some of these recently, so I can't say I was entirely surprised. Hautus grouped the Corton-Charlemagnes into three flights: 1) vintages of energy (2005, 2014, 2017), 2) weak vintages (1993, 1994, 2011) and 3) recent vintages (2015, 2016) and the very rare red Corton into two flights: 1) older vintages (1991, 1999, 2003) and 2) newer releases (2015, 2017). Although they had been bottled only a few months before this tasting, the 2017s, the first vintage made under new owner Stan Kroenke, point to a very bright future.
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I tasted the wines in this article during my visit to Bonneau du Martray last summer while the Musique et Vin festival was running, a time that today feels like it belongs to another era entirely. Winemaker Emmanuel Hautus showed me a wide range of vintages, all of which were impressive. I had tasted some of these recently, so I can't say I was entirely surprised. Hautus grouped the Corton-Charlemagnes into three flights: 1) vintages of energy (2005, 2014, 2017), 2) weak vintages (1993, 1994, 2011) and 3) recent vintages (2015, 2016) and the very rare red Corton into two flights: 1) older vintages (1991, 1999, 2003) and 2) newer releases (2015, 2017). Although they had been bottled only a few months before this tasting, the 2017s, the first vintage made under new owner Stan Kroenke, point to a very bright future.
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Jean-Claude de la Morinière is convinced that his Corton-Charlemagne has been less austere since he began working organically, “even when the new wines have the same technical parameters as earlier vintages.” He believes that organic farming helped to save the foliage after the hailstorm of June 28, healing the wounded vines. Still, he lost one-third of his crop in ’14. I was not able to taste the 2014 last year as it was just beginning its malolactic fermentation at the beginning of June but the finished wine is a stunner.
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Bonneau du Martray now prefers to show finished wines rather than wines in barrel, so I did not taste the 2023s on my most recent visit. The bottled 2022s are excellent, but they are also a bit more reserved post-bottling than they were last year. Technical Director Emmanuel Hautus continues to give these wines greater precision through a focus on parcel-by-parcel vinification, experimentation with larger-format oak and the selection of coopers based on the style of individual vintages. I’ve included a handful of notes for older vintages that I tasted in two recent visits that aren’t quite enough for a stand-alone report.
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Jean-Claude de la Morinière lost 30% of his 2014 Corton-Charlemagne crop to the hailstorm on June 28, following a 70% loss in 2013 and what he described as a disastrous crop in 2012. The 2014 had just started its malolactic fermentation and was thus unavailable to taste on my late spring tour. The hailstorm on July 23 of 2013 badly damaged the vines' leaves, resulting in what de le Morinière described as "big stress on the vines; everything stopped for two weeks." He eventually harvested on October 5, noting that he has never been bothered by botrytis in Chardonnary and adding that he "prefers to begin with maximum cloudiness." Following an 18-hour débourbage he began with 6 to 8 liters of lees per barrel. The wine is racked off its heavier lees into stainless steel after 12 months, and bottled the second March. De la Morinière does a "loose" filtration using cellulose plates but prefers not to fine.
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Jean-Claude de la Morinière lost 30% of his 2014 Corton-Charlemagne crop to the hailstorm on June 28, following a 70% loss in 2013 and what he described as a disastrous crop in 2012. The 2014 had just started its malolactic fermentation and was thus unavailable to taste on my late spring tour. The hailstorm on July 23 of 2013 badly damaged the vines' leaves, resulting in what de le Morinière described as "big stress on the vines; everything stopped for two weeks." He eventually harvested on October 5, noting that he has never been bothered by botrytis in Chardonnary and adding that he "prefers to begin with maximum cloudiness." Following an 18-hour débourbage he began with 6 to 8 liters of lees per barrel. The wine is racked off its heavier lees into stainless steel after 12 months, and bottled the second March. De la Morinière does a "loose" filtration using cellulose plates but prefers not to fine.
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I tasted the wines in this article during my visit to Bonneau du Martray last summer while the Musique et Vin festival was running, a time that today feels like it belongs to another era entirely. Winemaker Emmanuel Hautus showed me a wide range of vintages, all of which were impressive. I had tasted some of these recently, so I can't say I was entirely surprised. Hautus grouped the Corton-Charlemagnes into three flights: 1) vintages of energy (2005, 2014, 2017), 2) weak vintages (1993, 1994, 2011) and 3) recent vintages (2015, 2016) and the very rare red Corton into two flights: 1) older vintages (1991, 1999, 2003) and 2) newer releases (2015, 2017). Although they had been bottled only a few months before this tasting, the 2017s, the first vintage made under new owner Stan Kroenke, point to a very bright future.
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Proprietor Jean-Charles le Bault de la Morinière compares 2011 to 2007, and to a lesser extent, 2001. Flowering was very early, as it was everywhere in Burgundy, but the main cause for concern was a hailstorm that arrived on May 20, that seems to have had little effect on yields, which were inline with normal. A very rainy July and early August slowed down ripening from its previous fast pace. The Chardonnay harvest started on September 6 and finished on the 12th. Fermentations were quite slow within the context of the year, and it was not until June 2012 that the malos were completely finished. The 2011 Corton-Charlemagne was bottled in Spring 2013.
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Jean-Charles de la Moriniere makes a single white wine but a load of it, as he is the single largest owner of land in Corton-Charlemagne, with 9.5 hectares of vines out of a total of 34. De la Moriniere was not ready to show his 2012 but had bottled his 2011 in March. The crop level in '11 was reduced by hail on May 20, just before the flowering, which damaged the canopy. De la Moriniere told me that treatments with valerian and arnica cured these "wounds" in 48 hours. I also retasted the 2010 Corton-Charlemagne and it is at least as strong as I thought it was a year ago. (The 2006 was a bit more problematic, as it wasn't until the third bottle that we found one that was as fresh as a grand cru white Burgundy of this age should be.) (A Becky Wasserman selection; imported by Martin-Scott Wines, www.martinscottwines.com and Chambers & Chambers Wine Merchants, www.chamberswines.com)
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Jean-Charles de la Moriniere makes a single white wine but a load of it, as he is the single largest owner of land in Corton-Charlemagne, with 9.5 hectares of vines out of a total of 34.De la Moriniere was not ready to show his 2012 but had bottled his 2011 in March.The crop level in '11 was reduced by hail on May 20, just before the flowering, which damaged the canopy.De la Moriniere told me that treatments with valerian and arnica cured these "wounds" in 48 hours.I also retasted the 2010 Corton-Charlemagne and it is at least as strong as I thought it was a year ago.(The 2006 was a bit more problematic, as it wasn't until the third bottle that we found one that was as fresh as a grand cru white Burgundy of this age should be.) (A Becky Wasserman selection; imported by Martin-Scott Wines, www.martinscottwines.com and Chambers & Chambers Wine Merchants, www.chamberswines.com)
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Sometimes I wish Bonneau de Martray made more wines, as my tastings with Jean-Charles le Bault de la Morinière are always much too brief. Readers will find wines of impeccable polish and class at this small domaine tucked in the hillsides of Pernand-Vergelesses. De la Morinière told me that he hoped to make the red Corton once again available to the estate's customers in the US, which is great news, although it hasn't happened yet. According to de la Morinière, 2009 was a year unlike any other he has seen for its consistent, uninterrupted good weather. The harvest started on September 9th. Yields came in at 39.4 hectoliters per hectare for the Corton-Charlemagne and 27.05 hectoliters per hectare for the Corton. The Corton-Charlemagne finished its malo in June 2010, while the Corton started its malo in May, 2010 and finished in August. Both of the 2009s were bottled in Spring 2011. By contrast, the 2010s were brought in beginning on September 23, after a year characterized by an irregular flowering that lowered yields and an equally variable summer with periods of rain and heat. Conditions improved markedly during the month of September. Yields of 30.50 hectoliters per hectare for the Corton-Charlemagne and 22 hectoliters per hectare for the Corton were the lowest ever recorded at the domaine with the exception of 2003.
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This wine was tasted at the 2014 Musique & Vin Au Clos Vougeot festival, which takes place in Burgundy each year towards the end of June.
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Sometimes I wish Bonneau de Martray made more wines, as my tastings with Jean-Charles le Bault de la Morinière are always much too brief. Readers will find wines of impeccable polish and class at this small domaine tucked in the hillsides of Pernand-Vergelesses. De la Morinière told me that he hoped to make the red Corton once again available to the estate's customers in the US, which is great news, although it hasn't happened yet. According to de la Morinière, 2009 was a year unlike any other he has seen for its consistent, uninterrupted good weather. The harvest started on September 9th. Yields came in at 39.4 hectoliters per hectare for the Corton-Charlemagne and 27.05 hectoliters per hectare for the Corton. The Corton-Charlemagne finished its malo in June 2010, while the Corton started its malo in May, 2010 and finished in August. Both of the 2009s were bottled in Spring 2011. By contrast, the 2010s were brought in beginning on September 23, after a year characterized by an irregular flowering that lowered yields and an equally variable summer with periods of rain and heat. Conditions improved markedly during the month of September. Yields of 30.50 hectoliters per hectare for the Corton-Charlemagne and 22 hectoliters per hectare for the Corton were the lowest ever recorded at the domaine with the exception of 2003.
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This wine was tasted in June 2014 at a private charity dinner and auction held to benefit local charities in Beaune that help the poor. A number of Burgundy’s top growers poured wines from their cellars from magnum as a collection of eye-popping bottles was auctioned off to the attendees. The food was delicious and simple, which allowed the wines to shine even more brightly. Most importantly of all, the auction was a huge success.
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I tasted the wines in this article during my visit to Bonneau du Martray last summer while the Musique et Vin festival was running, a time that today feels like it belongs to another era entirely. Winemaker Emmanuel Hautus showed me a wide range of vintages, all of which were impressive. I had tasted some of these recently, so I can't say I was entirely surprised. Hautus grouped the Corton-Charlemagnes into three flights: 1) vintages of energy (2005, 2014, 2017), 2) weak vintages (1993, 1994, 2011) and 3) recent vintages (2015, 2016) and the very rare red Corton into two flights: 1) older vintages (1991, 1999, 2003) and 2) newer releases (2015, 2017). Although they had been bottled only a few months before this tasting, the 2017s, the first vintage made under new owner Stan Kroenke, point to a very bright future.
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As reported in Issue 10, Jean-Charles le Bault de la Moriniere reports that 2001 has turned out to be a "very happy surprise in what was a difficult vintage". As did a number of his colleagues, he noted that 2001 began very well with excellent, relatively even flowering and a precocious start but despite the promising beginning, the growing season did not lead to homogenous ripening. We began the harvest the same day as the ban de vendange September 17th but because of the uneven ripening, the harvest took a full 10 days versus only 7 in 2000." After some serious triage work however, sugars came in around 13% in both colors and in what turned out to be important in terms of concentration, sugars and acidity, there was a lot of millerandage tiny berries that give very high solid to juice ratios). M. de la Moriniere noted that there was not a great difference between the quality of the red and the white in 2001but that the maturity of the chardonnay versus the pinot was not at all the same, favoring the chardonnay in this case. He compares the 2001 vintage to '94 or '97 but noted that it may age like 2000. As an aside, the 2000 delivers everything that it promised in barrel and is highly recommended. The 2001 is scheduled to be bottled in April.
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As reported in Issue 10, Jean-Charles le Bault de la Moriniere reports that 2001 has turned out to be a "very happy surprise in what was a difficult vintage". As did a number of his colleagues, he noted that 2001 began very well with excellent, relatively even flowering and a precocious start but despite the promising beginning, the growing season did not lead to homogenous ripening. We began the harvest the same day as the ban de vendange September 17th but because of the uneven ripening, the harvest took a full 10 days versus only 7 in 2000." After some serious triage work however, sugars came in around 13% in both colors and in what turned out to be important in terms of concentration, sugars and acidity, there was a lot of millerandage tiny berries that give very high solid to juice ratios). M. de la Moriniere noted that there was not a great difference between the quality of the red and the white in 2001but that the maturity of the chardonnay versus the pinot was not at all the same, favoring the chardonnay in this case. He compares the 2001 vintage to '94 or '97 but noted that it may age like 2000. As an aside, the 2000 delivers everything that it promised in barrel and is highly recommended. The 2001 is scheduled to be bottled in April. Diageo Chateau and Estate Wines, New York, NY).
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I tasted the wines in this article during my visit to Bonneau du Martray last summer while the Musique et Vin festival was running, a time that today feels like it belongs to another era entirely. Winemaker Emmanuel Hautus showed me a wide range of vintages, all of which were impressive. I had tasted some of these recently, so I can't say I was entirely surprised. Hautus grouped the Corton-Charlemagnes into three flights: 1) vintages of energy (2005, 2014, 2017), 2) weak vintages (1993, 1994, 2011) and 3) recent vintages (2015, 2016) and the very rare red Corton into two flights: 1) older vintages (1991, 1999, 2003) and 2) newer releases (2015, 2017). Although they had been bottled only a few months before this tasting, the 2017s, the first vintage made under new owner Stan Kroenke, point to a very bright future.
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I tasted the wines in this article during my visit to Bonneau du Martray last summer while the Musique et Vin festival was running, a time that today feels like it belongs to another era entirely. Winemaker Emmanuel Hautus showed me a wide range of vintages, all of which were impressive. I had tasted some of these recently, so I can't say I was entirely surprised. Hautus grouped the Corton-Charlemagnes into three flights: 1) vintages of energy (2005, 2014, 2017), 2) weak vintages (1993, 1994, 2011) and 3) recent vintages (2015, 2016) and the very rare red Corton into two flights: 1) older vintages (1991, 1999, 2003) and 2) newer releases (2015, 2017). Although they had been bottled only a few months before this tasting, the 2017s, the first vintage made under new owner Stan Kroenke, point to a very bright future.
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