2022 Charlemagne Grand Cru

ottled 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.

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.

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.