23 Sep 2015: 2008 Corton-Charlemagne, Coche-Dury. Richard picked this very special bottle to celebrate my very low-key birthday. Pale lemon hue. Intense bouquet of buttered toast, hazelnut, smoke and lemon peel. A powerfully structured and delineated wine, with pronounced acidity to give the wine an incredible lift, balancing the sumptuous richness, layers of complexity, volumes of energy and tension filling the minerality-laden palate. Immaculately balanced, seamlessly integrated, with the most persistent finish, that brings out such purity and lineage. A distinguished wine that has yet to fulfill its full potential, but why wait? It's already so delicious! 20/20
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