Winemaker Notes
Pairs well with haute cuisine, fish and shellfish, white meat and poultry with cream sauces.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2013 Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru is very closed on the nose, a little resinous at first with honeysuckle and jasmine notes surfacing with time. The palate is medium-bodied with a waxy-textured entry, a fine thread of acidity and a weighty, concentrated, lightly honeyed finish. This is a fine Corton-Charlemagne, although it is no match for either the Montrachet or the Chevalier-Montrachet that preceded it.
Range: 90-92 -
Wine Spectator
This white offers spiced apple and grapefruit notes, with nuances of spice. Powerful, along with a slightly coarse texture and finish. With air, this shows better integration and fine length. Best from 2017 through 2023.
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.
The origin of perhaps the world’s very finest Pinot Noir, Côte de Nuits is the northern half of the Côte d'Or and includes the famous wine villages of Gevrey-Chambertin, Morey-St-Denis, Chambolle-Musigny, Vougeot, Vosne-Romanée, Flagey-Echezeaux and Nuits-St-Georges.
Fine whites from Chardonnay are certainly found in the Côte de Nuits, but with much less frequency than top-performing reds made of Pinot noir. The little village of Nuits-St-Georges in its southern end gave the region its name: Côte de Nuits. The city of Dijon marks its northern border.