Domaine Buisson - Corton Charlemagne "Le Charlemagne" 2022

Robert Parker Wine Advocate
[vintage 2021]

The 2021 Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru is also a great success from this domaine that just goes from strength to strength every year, unfurling in the glass with notes of citrus zest, yellow apple, white flowers, almond paste and freshly baked bread. Medium to full-bodied, layered and impressively concentrated, its satiny attack segues into a taut, racy and mineral mid-palate and finish.

Saint-Romain's reference point, this 19-hectare domaine has been estate bottling since the late 1940s and farming organically since the 1970s. Today, brothers Franck and Frédérick Buisson preside over the vineyards and cellar, where white grapes are sorted, crushed and pressed for two and a half hours and musts are barreled down with minimal settling. Reds see gentle extraction, generally with some 50% whole bunches, though that proportion was somewhat reduced in 2021 given the vintage conditions. The result is elegantly textural, chiseled wines that can age very well but are also hard to resist young. After a series of sunny vintages, where Saint-Romain's altitude helped to retain freshness, don't count out the 2021s, a more challenging year that has nevertheless produced some beautifully electric, saline whites and perfumed, supple reds.

Jasper Morris - Inside Burgundy