2016 Bouchard Père et Fils Corton-Charlemagne Domaine- France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru (7/15/2020)
Good GC weight, but too flabby and tropical. Orchard fruits abound but lacking minerality or acidity. I don’t know where this will head in a few years, but right now it’s disappointing.
Update after I left half the bottle to today. Showing much less flabby and a bit more acidity. Still not the steely minerality that I would hope for. I think the house style combined with the ripe vintage wasn’t a good pair. I hope 2017 and 2018 are better matched.
I’m drinking the '11 of this tonight and it’s on point, good acidity and plenty of rocky material. Not at all flabby. I do remember not liking the '09 nearly as much, had some kind of lanolin/waxy thing going on and that was a really ripe vintage. I also had the '16 Meursault Perrieres earlier this year and while it wasn’t the most high toned white burgundy I’ve had from the vintage, it was a good wine with minerality and reasonable balance.
I wouldn’t give up on Bouchard from this one experience.