2018 Corton Charlemagne

The 2018 Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru is fragrant on the nose with orange blossom, white peach and light walnut notes. There is some oak to be subsumed and there is plenty of fruit to soak that up. The palate is well balanced with a pleasing fatness on the entry. This is not the most complex or intellectual Corton-Charlemagne in this vintage and it is missing some tension, but that seems to develop in the glass and forcing me to raise my score. Tasted blind at the Burgfest 2018 white tasting.