2011 Corton Charlemagne
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Tasted blind at the Burgundy 2011 horizontal tasting in Beaune. The nose on Javillier’s 2011 Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru is a little reticent at first, but dunk your nose deep into the glass and there are attractive lime leaf and orange rind aromas that emerge. There is a bit of SO2 dampening the aromatics so I grace this with an hour’s decanting. The palate is clean and fresh with touches of mango and lemon curd, then nectarine and persimmon coming through on the well-defined but tightly coiled finish. This has good substance but it needs 5 or 6 years in the cellar.
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Allen Meadows, Burghound
Neal Martin
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Bright yellow. Complex, pungent scents of orange zest, ginger, nutmeg, crushed stone, smoke and white pepper. Then surprisingly fat and sweet in the mouth, but with sound acidity and a strong stony component giving grip to the ripe peach fruit. Very tactile, youthfully phenolic wine with well-judged oakiness (Javillier used three one-year-old barrels). This began with 12.8% potential alcohol and was chaptalized to 13.5%.
Lively top note on the richness. Lots of green fruit and juice. A tense Corton-Charlemagne that is trying. Tense enough to improve. (JR)
Bright yellow. Slightly high-toned aromas of exotic lime peel and ginger, plus a whiff of banana. Fat, supple and ripe for this cuvee, with nothing austere about it. Plenty of flavor and sweetness, but not a particularly minerally style. Finishes with a whiplash of flavor. Initially quite easy to taste but seemed to shut down in the glass.