TN: 1982 Bonneau du Martray Corton-Charlemagne

Jeremy_Holmes · December 9, 2015, 9:45pm

1982 Bonneau du Martray Corton-Charlemagne - France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru (12/9/2015)
Beautifully mature bottle of white Burgundy. There are tertiary whiffs of white mushroom and a light drizzle of honey. It has a heady scent of citrus blossom and there are ripe orchard fruit aromas and flavours. It if full and shapely with a slight custardy feel. The wine still possesses a steely backbone and length of flavor is superb.

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Chris_S_p_i_k_e_s · December 9, 2015, 10:08pm

No pre-mox??

Peter_Hirsch · December 9, 2015, 10:17pm

Great note. I miss those ‘Pre PremOx’ wines!!!

CFu · December 9, 2015, 10:19pm

those 80s BDM CCs man. So good

Andrew_L · December 9, 2015, 10:36pm

Jelly.

Sounds amazing.

Kent_Comley · December 9, 2015, 10:54pm

This wine was humming along nicely a decade ago.
Anyone saving their '05s until 2038?

William_Kelley · December 9, 2015, 10:57pm

Agreed, seems like this was a great decade for Bonneau du Martray.

While I did not taste the 1982 white Burgundies in their youth, it is interesting that several reviewers described them as open-knit and diffuse back in the day. Yet today several have evolved into lovely wines, the 1982 Leflaive bottlings in particular being extraordinary.

Steve_Nordhoff · December 10, 2015, 12:34am

So true. I have had 85, 88, 89, 90 and 91s, all excellent.

Scot_H · December 10, 2015, 12:50am

Thanks Jeremy, great note. I bought a case of 88 BDM based on one of your notes of several years ago and it has been awesome!

alan_weinberg · December 10, 2015, 1:54am

and I remember cluing Jeremy in on BdM, long ago. I love the 85/86 duo as well as 83, 89, and other vintages. Used to be the value grand cru white–now a crapshoot.

craig_v · December 10, 2015, 2:25am

Would love to drink that baby. Nice!

paul_hanna · December 10, 2015, 3:12am

Had close to a case of this wine over the years (sadly all gone now), and whilst there was some bottle variation, mostly they were fabulous.

I remember blinding the table guys a few years ago with a bottle of this, and everyone thought the wine was either an '01 or '02 (only 20 years out in their guesses!).

The '88 is pretty good also.

Such a shame that white burgs don’t age like this anymore…

Jeremy_Holmes · December 11, 2015, 6:26am

Must thank Alan for tipping me on the '85 and '86 in particular, both spectacular wines. I managed to source some ex Domaine stock of these two recently along with the '88 and am very excited.

The 80’s was a great decade for white Burgundy. In particular I’ve had many great 82’s, 83,s, 85’s and 86.s from Leflaive.