2022 Bonneau du Martray Corton Charlemagne Grand Cru

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97 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - Bottled in May 2024, the 2022 Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru is showing brilliantly, wafting from the glass with notes of sweet stone and orchard fruit mingled with hints of nutmeg, iodine, freshly baked bread and vanilla pod. Full-bodied, satiny and seamless, it's deep and layered, with terrific mid-palate plenitude, lively acids and chalky structuring extract, this rivals the more incisive 2020 version as the finest wine from Bonneau du Martray in recent years.

96 Decanter - After a tasting of the components of the parcel-by-parcel approach the winery takes, a representative blend leaves no doubt that this will be an epic vintage for Bonneau du Martray. It is a wine of richness and depth, with aromas and flavours ranging from citrus to ripe apple and nectarine, and complex nuances of flint, beeswax, smoke, and hay. The texture is dense but a lively acidity carries the wine to a thrillingly long finish. Ideally one would wait seven to 10 years to open this wine; it will certainly last another 30 beyond that at least.

94 Vinous - The 2022 Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru is a gorgeous wine. It is also surprisingly open-knit. Soft contours wrap around a core of apricot, ripe pear, chamomile, marzipan and dried flowers. The 2022 spent twelve months in barrel followed by six months in a combination of mostly stainless steel with some sandstone amphora and larger-format oak. This is an undeniably attractive and engaging wine. Ideally, it would be nice to see a bit more Charlemagne energy. Then again, 2022 was marked by very warm, dry weather and four heat spikes. It will be interesting to see how this develops in bottle.

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