2023, Domaine Bruno Clair, CORTON-CHARLEMAGNE, Grand CruA fresh pale lemon, with a beautiful bouquet, nothing exotic or heady, a perfect balance here, perfumed towards the back, apples with a wrapping of honeysuckle, along with a good natural acidity and a stony finish. A delicious, complex Corton Charlemagne. Drink from 2029 2036. Tasted Nov 2024. **** 93 96 Jasper Morris MW, Inside Burgundy. Offering up notes of sweet citrus oil, white flowers and freshly baked bread, the 2023 Corton Charlemagne Grand

Readers will find a Cantenac Brown endowed with notable textural richness

Biodynamic

finishing with a minty lift

giving sculpted lifted acidities that have been maintained through the heat of 2020

It aged 90% in 16-hectolitre concrete eggs and the remainder in a combination of barriques and demi-muids

It may lack a bit of structure

a bit wild with some medicinal aspects

33% new oak

Expect waves of red roses

plus a touch of crushed rocks

Starts of big and bright and full then narrows and settles and becomes more detailed - you get the nuance

finishing - what a volume and starting intensity here - slowly fading