Corton Charlemagne, Domaine Ponsot 2014

A well-layered nose offers up notes of various citrus element, apple, pear, white flowers and plenty of wet stone nuances. The attractively textured, powerful and intense big-bodied flavors possess ample minerality before culminating in a beautifully long and well-balanced finish. This moderately forward effort should repay mid-term cellaring.

The 2014 Corton Charlemagne Grand Cru has a modest bouquet, bashful at first but finding its voice with aeration; it offers attractive scents of orange blossom and lime zest, almond paste and plenty of leesy notes. The palate is well balanced with a fine line of acidity. There is decent body and depth to this Corton-Charlemagne, perhaps a touch more "tropical" than others, but that is counterbalanced by the mineral seam that pokes through on the long finish. Excellent.