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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.5 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 202 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by liber on 5/16/2024 & rated 93 points: 19th of 24, opened 45 minutes, perfect cork and level, palish, classy, tight and quite complex, better than December's bottle but not quite up to last July's, thinned down from earlier bottles and showing citric side to good effect, proper underlying GC heft if without the obvious minerality of best bottles, attractive salinity, probably little upside, but clean bottles should be ok for 10+ years. F+ (18). (117 views) | | | Tasted by drjb on 2/19/2024 & rated 96 points: A number of Australian wineries have display panels, protected from light, where single vintages of 25 or more bottles of the same white wine, eg chardonnay, riesling, semillon, have been bottled under good quality cork and Stelvin. While the Stelvin sealed bottles matured consistently and steadily, those under cork are all over the place at 10 years with the diversity of outcomes increasing over time.
So too do vintages of Bonneau du Martray CC a potentially great wine owned up until recently by a family led by a great premox denier even when presented with one in his own tasting room ! My experiences are consistent with everything demonstrated by those Australian wineries described above.
This wine unlike others from the same vintage is perfect with a firmly in place cork and clear pale green gold colour that speaks of freshness. The nose is rich and fine with plenty of lemon, lime and tropical fruits balanced by honey, cashews, white flowers and limestone in the rain. The palate is gloriously rich with a mouthful of fruit, flowers and pungent minerality that provides grip and persistence to burn. There is maturity here but no hint of oxidation or undue development. In short this is white burgundy that we dream of - pungent, long aging, savoury yet fruit driven and persistent. If bottled under a decent closure I would have continued to buy this wine beyond 2002 !
So that's 1 bottle of 7 so far that's fulfilled its full potential ! (534 views) | | | Tasted by liber on 12/10/2023 & rated 92 points: 18th of 24, pnp, perfect cork and level, leaner and meaner than recent bottles (last July 22) but with underlying depth and drive, hint of caramel and flinty mineral, citric edge, sense now of age and way off sensational bottle in 21, plateau, no rush. F (17.5).....bottle variation should be expected even for BdM's normally ageworthy wines (89 and 90 still going strong!!!) (635 views) | | | Tasted by Burgnick on 11/26/2023 & rated 89 points: Super youthful but lean and four-squared palate. (909 views) | | | Tasted by Jeremy Holmes on 10/4/2023: A magnificent bottle, pouring out fresh with a green tinge. Just a hint of butter and toast. There’s a sprig of mint and intense lemon fruit. It has some aniseed spice and a rigid mineral spine. It is linear, layered and has such great cut and drive. (932 views) | | | Tasted by Vinumming & Ahhing on 2/21/2023 & rated 93 points: Simon Beatty's Memorial Dinner - Table 2 - Richebourg (Noizé, London): Great stand-in for a missing in action 1990. This has great power with white flowers and a little pineapple stalk to the nose. Elevage is well judged. Palate has great line and there is plenty of time ahead here. One of three cracking wines in our white flight. (1484 views) | | | Tasted by Collector1855 on 9/9/2022 & rated 93 points: 200 Burgundy Grand Crus from vintage 2000, 4-day blind tasting (Singapore): Good but with a bit off, lactic, aromas next to the classics. Decent rather than great like the Leroy and Boillot. (3144 views) | | | Tasted by liber on 7/2/2022 & rated 95 points: 17th of 24, opened 30 minutes, perfect cork and level, pale and unctuous, though seemed to put on more colour with air, citric flavours muted relative to some previous bottles and turning to lemon curd, rich round flavours more like a top Meursault (Lafon) than CC, some mineral but no obvious steel, more development possible but little upside from here I suspect, no rush. VF (18.5).....but I wonder if I'd identify correctly as CC blind. (1466 views) | | | Tasted by liber on 1/9/2022 & rated 80 points: 16th of 24, pnp, perfect level, oddly dark cork, dark, POXED, sinked.......grrrrrh!!!! Poor (10). (1988 views) | | | Tasted by buckeye76 on 12/24/2021 & rated 95 points: Excellent wine! Better than the 2010 vintage also tasted during our Christmas Eve meal. Pears, apples and peach in the nose joined by some minerality. Full bodied, complex, and well balanced with nice acidity and a long finish. (1867 views) | | | Tasted by WKC on 12/17/2021 & rated 91 points: Much better bottle than last one. The color already let us know it was going to be good. Really lovely soft aromas of green apple, peach and flowers. Acidity on the palate with decent length on the mineral laden finish which lasted several seconds. Left for next day and it softened up. Hope my last bottle is going to be similar! (1505 views) | | | Tasted by yeastyboy on 11/28/2021 & rated 92 points: Deep yellow. Honeycomb, apple. Salty in the mouth, honeycomb again, strong acidity, good balance. Sherry notes in the finish. (1328 views) | | | Tasted by UFGators on 10/31/2021 & rated 92 points: An unusual experience. Despite its age the bottle was super closed and required 1.5 hours of air to get it going. From that point I was able to get primary and tertiary flavors. Decent acidity still intact. Good bottle but not everything all that I expected from it. I don't see this wine getting any better. Drink now. (1255 views) | | | Tasted by sirpat00 on 10/9/2021 & rated 94 points: Pear with some lemon zest fruit. The palate is fresh, crisp and balanced although not overly voluptuous and there also seemed to be distant hints of nutty ox notes which do not serve as a feature here but rather represent off notes. Apart from that fully intact, both aromatically and structurally. Well balanced with a slightly creamy texture. A bit restrained at first, too, but was developing more intensity with increasing temperature in the glass (served too cold at <10C at first) adding mineral and salty layers, tropical fruit components and an herbal angle that reminded me of lemon grass. Really need to stress the pretty impressive versatility here.
Kept half the bottle in the fridge and revisited the following day. Aeration added an alluring sweet touch which resonated in the 20sec finish. Absolutely no signs left of the off-notes. This presented itself with that bit of decadence I’m looking for in a Corton-Charlemagne.
This being clearly better on day 2, I think best to decant at least 1h, maybe better 2h before serving to fast forward to the sweet spot. 94+ (1282 views) | | | Tasted by tanduybui on 5/22/2021 & rated 94 points: Yes, you can get lucky in this game and last night was my turn. A beautiful bottle that ticked all the boxes. Still very much a pale yellow, it had a beautiful floral, stone fruit and nectarine nose. The body was steely but racy with well integrated oak and fruit. Lovely soft fruit definition and screamed out yumminess. Acidity was still very good so this bottle could have lived for another 6+ years comfortably. (1313 views) | | | Tasted by Livonietisr on 5/7/2021 & rated 93 points: Intense ripe aromas of peaches, pineapple, vitrus, honey. Fresh and enjoyable. (1412 views) | | | Tasted by drjb on 3/23/2021 flawed bottle: Premoxed ! (1472 views) | | | Tasted by drjb on 3/23/2021 flawed bottle: Premoxed. (1678 views) | | | Tasted by WKC on 3/22/2021: No aroma initially but did open up after an hour and had a weakish palate. Basically this was premoxed. Sad. (1196 views) | | | Tasted by liber on 2/7/2021 & rated 97 points: 15th of 24, pnp, perfect cork and level, even better than last May's bottle, ridiculously pale and youthful at 21, real drive and freshness to the fruit, almost perfect balance between citric and mineral elements, tightly wound as yet but with underlying GC weight, very persistent and complex, splitting hairs I'd trade some salinity for more steel, but nigh on perfect, still developing. VF+ (19).........a proper ageworthy white Burg with not even the merest hint of pox - it can be done!!!!! (1406 views) | | | Tasted by gbanks on 11/29/2020: Drank on TG with non-wino friends, who were blown away by it. As for me, I'd have liked a bit more concentration (weird thing to say for a CC); there's quite a lot of acid in this vintage, which actually made it quite lovely with food, but a bit much to contemplate on its own. That said, still a very nice bottle with, I'd imagine, a number of years left in it. (1261 views) | | | Tasted by SKAHN2 on 11/7/2020 & rated 93 points: Bottle in perfect condition. Medium-full bodied, rich color, notes of pear and a bit of honey. Still nice acidity and minerality, and evolved in the glass over the hour it lasted. (1033 views) | | | Tasted by cfk49 on 11/4/2020 & rated 87 points: Not unpleasant, but lacking in character and precision. Medium-weight, oily texture, a little minerality, but no penetration, energy, or tension. A bottle 5-6 years ago was considerably better. Cellared since original release. (1325 views) | | | Tasted by shifter on 9/20/2020 & rated 90 points: Surprisingly closed early. Decanted for an hour and it started to show more. Good weight on the palate on top of a backbone of minerality. The pieces were there, but they didn't quite come together. (1564 views) | | | Tasted by liber on 5/16/2020 & rated 96 points: 14th of 24, opened an hour, perfect cork and level, a particularly fine bottle and right back on track, ridiculously youthful robe, leggy, fine energetic fruit beautifully balanced with citric cut, outstanding length, persistence and concentration, traded some steel for almost Chablis like salinity, scope to improve further even at 20 years (unlike some other bottles!). VF (18.5)…...and this mark may be a tad mean. (1769 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| The World of Fine Wine, September 2010, Issue #29
(Corton-Charlemagne, Domaine Bonneau du Martray.) Login and sign up and see review text. | By Allen Meadows
Burghound (7/5/2010)
(Domaine Bonneau du Martray Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru White) Subscribe to see review text. | By Jancis Robinson, MW
JancisRobinson.com (11/6/2008)
(Dom Bonneau du Martray, Grand Cru Corton-Charlemagne White) Subscribe to see review text. | By Campbell Mattinson
The WINEFRONT (8/31/2006)
(Bonneau du Martray Corton-Charlemagne) Subscribe to see review text. | By Allen Meadows
Burghound, 3rd Quarter, 2003, Issue #11
(Domaine Bonneau du Martray Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru White) Subscribe to see review text. | By Jancis Robinson, MW
JancisRobinson.com (11/14/2002)
(Dom Bonneau du Martray Corton-Charlemagne White) Subscribe to see review text. | By Allen Meadows
Burghound, 3rd Quarter, 2002, Issue #7
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Burgundy-Report (11/1/2004)
(Bonneau du Martray Corton-Charlemagne) Light colour again. Again a high toned nose, slightly alcoholic. The palate is fit rather than fat, super focused Charlemagne intensity. Super texture, really nice acidity and a great finish. Few words but great wine. |
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Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comBurgundy Les vins de Bourgogne (Bureau interprofessionnel des vins de Bourgogne) (and in English)
Burgundy - The province of eastern France, famous for its red wines produced from Pinot Noir and its whites produced from Chardonnay. (Small of amounts of Gamay and Aligoté are still grown, although these have to be labeled differently.) The most famous part of the region is known as the Cote d'Or (the Golden Slope). It is divided into the Cote de Beaune, south of the town of Beaune (famous principally for its whites), and the Cote de Nuits, North of Beaune (home of the most famous reds). In addition, the Cote Chalonnaise and the Maconnais are important wine growing regions, although historically a clear level (or more) below the Cote d'Or. Also included by some are the regions of Chablis and Auxerrois, farther north.
Burgundy Report | Les Grands Jours de Bourgogne - na stejné téma od Heleny Baker
# 2013 Vintage Notes:
* "2013 is a vintage that 20 years ago would have been a disaster." - Will Lyons
* "low yields and highly variable reds, much better whites." - Bill Nanson
* "Virtually all wines were chaptalised, with a bit of sugar added before fermentation to increase the final alcohol level." - Jancis Robinson
# 2014 Vintage Notes:
"We have not had such splendid harvest weather for many years. This will ensure high quality (fragrant, classy and succulent are words already being used) across the board, up and down the hierarchy and well as consistently from south to north geographically apart from those vineyards ravaged by the hail at the end of June." - Clive Coates
# 2015 Vintage Notes:
"Low yields and warm weather allowed for ample ripeness, small berries and an early harvest. Quality is looking extremely fine, with some people whispering comparisons with the outstanding 2005 vintage. Acid levels in individual wines may be crucial." - Jancis Robinson
# 2017 Vintage Notes:
"Chablis suffered greatly from frost in 2017, resulting in very reduced volumes. As ever, the irony seems to be that what remains is very good quality, as it is in the Côte d’Or. Cooler nights across the region have resulted in higher-than-usual acidity, with good conditions throughout the harvest season allowing for ripe, healthy fruit." - Jancis Robinson
# 2018 Vintage Notes:
"The most successful region for red Burgundy in 2018 was the Côte de Beaune. The weather was ideal in this area, with just enough sunlight and rain to produce perfectly balanced wines naturally." - Vinfolio
Côte de Beaune
Côte de Beaune (Bureau interprofessionnel des vins de Bourgogne)
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