Winemaker Notes
Intense fruit and toasted aromas blended with the mineral notes typical of this appellation on the nose. A rich, powerful wine with a strong personality. Very good ageing potential. Pair with Fish and shellfish in sauce, foie gras.
Professional Ratings
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Jasper Morris
A fine fresh energetic bouquet. There is a significant depth of fruit with lees contact, very backward, an extremely fine example. A very faint offering of banana but this is so backward. I would give this a further 5 to 15 years.
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Wine & Spirits
A muscular Corton, this starts out dense, a little vegetal, a little heavy in its massive structure. Then air brings up the beautiful freshness, layering a red fruit note of strawberries with scents of grain and vanilla. The finish tightens up and lasts, so that it tastes as if you’re breathing strawberry cream. Bouchard produces this from nine acres of estate vineyards in Corton.
One of the most popular and versatile white wine grapes, Chardonnay offers a wide range of flavors and styles depending on where it is grown and how it is made. While it tends to flourish in most environments, Chardonnay from its Burgundian homeland produces some of the most remarkable and longest lived examples. California produces both oaky, buttery styles and leaner, European-inspired wines. Somm Secret—The Burgundian subregion of Chablis, while typically using older oak barrels, produces a bright style similar to the unoaked style. Anyone who doesn't like oaky Chardonnay would likely enjoy Chablis.
A classic source of exceptional Chardonnay as well as Pinot Noir, the Côte de Beaune makes up the southern half of the Côte d’Or. Its principal wine-producing villages are Pernand-Vergelesses, Aloxe-Corton, Beaune, Pommard, Volnay, Meursault, Puligny-Montrachet and Chassagne-Montrachet.
The area is named for its own important town of Beaune, which is essentially the center of the Burgundy wine business and where many negociants center their work. Hospices de Beaune, the annual wine auction, is based here as well.