Corton-Charlemagne 2009
AC Grand cru, Dom. Bonneau du Martray, 750 ml
Description
Pale golden yellow with bright green tinge. Floral nose of acacia and citrus. On palate this Grand Cru offers a beautiful minerality, a sublime creamy structure of power and elegance. This fragrant wine will evolve beautifully for up to 15 years for a complex nose with minerality, toastiness and candied fruits. The slightly bitter finish attributable to the poor soil prolongs the pleasure for several seconds. A top quality grand vin.
Attributes
| Grape variety: | Chardonnay |
| Producer: | Domaine Bonneau du Martray |
| Origin: | France / Bourgogne / Côte de Beaune |
| Other vintages: | 1976 |
| Ripening potential: | 3 to 10 years |
| Drinking temperature: | 10 to 12 °C |
| Volume: | 13.5 % |
| Note: | Contains sulphites |
Côte de Beaune
Côte de Beaune: guarantor of elegance
The city of Beaune is the cultural and economic centre of Burgundy. The prestigious vineyard sites, stretching in a band from Santenay (located about 20 kilometres south of Beaune) to the village of Aloxe-Corton (five kilometres north of Beaune), form the Côte de Beaune. Legendary, uniquely expressive crus originate here. In fact, the most prestigious Chardonnay growths in the world are produced around Chassagne-Montrachet, Puligny-Montrachet and Meursault.
Bourgogne
Burgundy: home of the crus
Burgundy and Bordeaux are France’s most prestigious wine regions. Nonetheless, they are completely distinct in character: while Bordeaux, as the land of the chateaux, enjoys an aristocratic image, Burgundy has retained its rustic agrarian structure. Burgundy stretches for over 200 kilometres, from Dijon in the north to Lyon in the south. In a highly complex jigsaw of the most diverse of terroirs, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir demonstrate the subtle ways in which they embody their sources.
France
France – Philosophy in a bottle
According to French philosophy, wine should be an expression of the soil and climate. They use the word “terroir” to describe this. Terroir makes every wine different, and many especially good. French wine is regarded worldwide as an expression of cultural perfection. The French believe that humans are responsible for the quality of the berries, the vine variety for their character, and nature for the quantity. This philosophy can be expressed succinctly as: “the truth is the vineyard, not the man.”
