2018 Rapet Père et Fils Corton-Charlemagne

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 92.2 points

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  8/20/2023 - SuperSomm wrote:

  Pale golden colour. Medium nose with green apples, peach, apricot, wet stone, smoke, toasted bread, butter, brioche and charred wood. Medium taste of green apples, peach, apricot, wet stone, minerals, smoke, toasted bread, butter, brioche and charred wood. Long and dry finish. High acidity. Medium body. An outstanding Corton that is still very young and needs a lot of air. Would benefit from some years in the cellar. Goes well with fish or shellfish.

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  8/11/2023 - drwine2001 wrote:

  Medium yellow. Tropical fruit nose. Medium weight, oaky base, fairly creamy feel. Concentrated and less exotic in the mouth with reasonable acidity and structure.

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  8/9/2023 - Sean Tay wrote: 93 Points

  Medium+ nose intensity with notes of pear, green apple, lemon, flora. High acidity and medium+ finish. Will improve with ageing.

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  1/26/2023 - Eudemis Likes this wine:

  13.5% alcohol. Half bottle; Diam5 closure. Poured a glass 30 mn ahead by way of aeration. Pale straw colour, pretty luminous.
  The nose is intense, more flowery than fruity, with both fresh and dried flowers; very stylish and very pure. Yellow plum appears eventually. The mouth is similarly impressive, displaying power without opulence; not unlike a top Chablis but without the steel. Still all muscle and no fat; no oak either. Superb length with an extravagant display in the finish.
  Marvelous with scallops roasted in their shell. So intense is the experience that you don't feel short changed by the half bottle.
  Talking about change, this cost me about 40€, and it is nearly worth the price (and I am notoriously stingy...). Certainly my most memorable white since Dauvissat's 2015.
  In perfect condition now and hopefully for the next five years at least.
  Maybe give it a full decant the next time.

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  5/29/2021 - Derek Darth Taster wrote: 91 Points

  FWSG 2018 white burg tasting. Semi-blind. Drank in Gabriel Standart.
  Appearance is clear, pale intensity, lemon colour. Legs.
  Nose is clean, medium+ intensity, with aromas of light butter cream, almond nut, citrus lemon curd, ripe peaches, toast bread. Developing.
  On the palate, dry, medium+ acidity sensation, medium alcohol, medium body. Medium+ intensity, with flavours of rounded citrus lemon curd, ripe peaches, light butter cream, honey almond, toast bread. Long straight finish. Straightforward from start to finish and somehow feels hollow like something is blanked out at the moment.
  Good quality, though on hindsight what AM says may hold some water that this isn't particularly structured - as it is ripe fruit and oaked for sure as one would expect of CC, though it seems to lack the structure to hold it all together. Maybe just needs a bit of time to get the act together. Benefit of doubt.

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